you see, those who's prayers are not answered are asking for selfish reasons.
For a person's prayers to be answered, those prayers have to be in harmony with what God wants for us.
When we pray in harmony with his will, our prayers are ALWAYS answered.
2007-09-14 15:58:49
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answer #1
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answered by Tim 47 7
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If God is omniscient, He knows that in a week a tornado is going to rip through Kansas and kill a hundred people, wipe out twenty-thousand homes, and destroy three churches. He is omnipotent, and is therefore able to prevent it. If He was omnibenevolent, He would. Why doesn't He? Many Christians will claim that the destruction, death and misery is God's Will. Is then His Will omnibenevolent? Apparently not. They say that it must work out to some good end that we cannot understand... it works into his Divine Plan. And yet, these same Christians are the first ones to pray to God for him NOT TO INSTITUTE His Divine Plan! They are the ones to pray that the tornado ceases, or turns a mile to the west, or skips over their house. They should not presume to know better than their god, and to try to alter His plan. And then if their house was not destroyed, they get down on their knees amid all the destruction and death and thank their god. What an obscene gesture. They say their prayers were answered. But what of their neighbor, whose house was destroyed, who was just as devout a Christian, who prayed and wailed just as loudly? Well, that's God's Will again. If you believe Ezekiel 24:14 "I the Lord have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent", then you must accept that your house was saved and your neighbor's house was destroyed all in accordance with an unchanging plan. Therefore, why waste your breath praying? If it is going to happen according to the plan, you can't change anything by praying.
Some say that we cannot understand His Will, and therefore some things appear bad that are good, simply because it is a mystery to us. Well to quote Thomas Paine: "But though every created thing is, in [a] sense, a mystery, the word mystery cannot be applied to moral truth, any more than obscurity can be applied to light... Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention that obscures truth and represents it in distortion. Truth never envelops itself in mystery; and the mystery in which it is enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself. Religion, therefore, being the belief of a God, and the practice of moral truth, cannot have connection with mystery."
The kind of destruction brought about by a tornado is not what falls into my definition of "all good." If God is all-good, then perhaps he is not all-powerful, and could not prevent the tornado. If he is all-powerful and all-good, maybe he is not omniscient, and he just didn't know the tornado was coming. But if he is omnipresent, in all places at once, he must have known it was coming. Or maybe the simplest answer is correct, that he just doesn't exist and was made up by humans to ease their fears and provide explanations of those things of which they are ignorant.
2007-09-14 15:59:43
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answered by jtim24 2
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First, you need to stop taking scripture out of context. There is a pre-requisit, something we need to do before we can ask anything in His name and get it. In this passage we first must believe on God.
Jhn 14:12 ¶ Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater [works] than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
Jhn 14:13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
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In this passage what is the prerequsite to getting our prayers answered?
Jhn 15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and [that] your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
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You have to be one of His children....you have to be saved. The Bible says that God does not hear the prayers of the unsaved. It also says that sin separates us from God, he will not hear our prayers if we have unconfessed sin which is why we should always get right with God before we begin praying. Also, often times God does answer just not in the way we want Him to. Some times his answer is NO. Some times we ask him for things he knows won't be good for us. Also, some times people think that he's not answering because it doesn't come right away.....some times his answer is WAIT.
2007-09-14 16:04:07
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answered by tas211 6
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Matthew 21:22 is not a guarantee that we can get anything we want simply by asking Jesus and believing. God does not grant requests that would hurt us or others or that would violate his own nature. Jesus' statement is not a blank check. To be fulfilled, our requests must be in harmony with the principles of God's Kingdom. The stronger our belief, the more likely our prayers will be in line with God's will, and then God will be happy to grant them.
2007-09-14 16:05:46
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answered by justanotherone 5
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GOD is not going to give something which may harm you.
His answer will always be the best possible thing for you.
Even though that could be painful at the time.
Sometimes the answer to prayer is a long time coming.
Your prayer has to be in line with GOD's will, not selfish.
2007-09-14 16:02:44
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answered by Robert S 7
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'Jesus' covered prayer in Matthew Chapter 6, basically a person is ONLY to offer up the 'Lords Prayer' which essentially is a prayer of acceptence. Hheheee granted, there are some silly people out there that feel they have to TELL their limited god what they need.
Isn't their god all-knowing, doesn't IT already KNOW what they REALLY need and provides it.
2007-09-14 16:02:02
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answered by Lion Jester 5
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The bible says "ask and you shall recieve" it would not specify WHAT you will receive nor assure in what timeframe. additionally we ought to continuously no longer take in basic terms a million verse into consideration. There are are additionally different verses in this subject count number which says that the Lord solutions the prayer of a only guy.. ought to we assume that HE in basic terms solutions the prayers of a only guy? of course no, so which you're able to desire to study and evaluate greater then a million verse to get the completed experience of the bible's message. God does answer our prayers.. only no longer continuously interior the way we expect of nor interior the time-physique we are watching for. God additionally would not rigidity himself on all people.. he respects each and every persons unfastened-will. for this reason to end racism, he could of course would desire to rigidity his provodance on a minimum of a few individuals that stuborly refuse to enable pass of their racism. So what you ask for, jointly as this is interior of God's ability and unselfish, isn't conceivable given the honor God has for our individuality. Your prayer will maximum extremely be responded after the top of this time, while God calls us all back to him to be judged. in basic terms THEN will he placed an end to racism, that's a mundane theory and consequently could make no experience in Heaven or Hell. whether or no longer your prayer would be responded till now then.. we don't be attentive to.. God in no way siad he works on a 9-5 M-F timescale. So perhaps in a week, perhaps a month, perhaps no longer your lifetime, perhaps no longer in 3 lifetimes. perhaps while Obama gets elected..hehehehehehe (American-centric strategies-set) We only don't be attentive to.
2016-11-10 11:55:07
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answered by ? 4
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because we have selfish ambitions.
James 4:1-4
1 Why do you fight and argue among yourselves? Isn't it because of your sinful longings? They fight inside you.
2 You want something, but you can't get it. You kill and want what others have. But you can't have what you want. You argue and fight. You don't have what you want, because you don't ask God.
3 When you do ask for something, you don't receive it. Why? Because you ask for the wrong reason. You want to spend your money on your sinful pleasures.
4 You are not faithful to God. Don't you know that to be a friend of the world is to hate God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God
2007-09-14 16:04:33
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answered by bmdt07 4
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Many people look at od as a cosmic santa clause and if you are good enough and give hm your list everything will be just peachy. Well reality check it is not like that at all. God knows what is best for us and we dont so even if we ask for things and God knows that it will hurt us and it is not in His will for our lives then his answer dosent have to be Yes. No one knows why God does what He does we have to trust him.
2007-09-14 16:02:04
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answered by Anonymous
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You said it yourself. You must ask 'in My Name'. That means asking God's Will in whatever matter you are praying for. And of course God's Will is going to be done. Even if that Will means somebody still has to deal with the consequences of sin and free will.
2007-09-14 16:06:51
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answered by Anonymous
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No offense friend - but you are using scripture to make a false argument. Just like Satan did, tempting Christ in the wilderness.
Read James. God is not a "Genie-in-a-Bottle" ready to grant your every wish.
"When you ask you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives that you may spend what you get on your pleasures."
2007-09-14 15:58:55
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answered by Anonymous
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