Myth – All Prayers Answered

May I dispel a myth?

Myth: God answers all prayers

If or when God answers any of our prayers we should be eternally grateful because the truth is that none of us qualify to ever deserve any answers.

Who of us could pompously claim that when we pray we know God’s will, and our motives are pure, and we aren’t holding on to any bad/sinful habits and we have no unconfessed sin. All of those just mentioned are Biblical conditions for answered prayer.

If God doesn’t hear the prayer, how can He answer?

• 1 John 5:14 – This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.
• Psalm 66:18 – If I had cherished sin in my heart the Lord would not have listened.
• Isaiah 59:2 – But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

If we have wrong motives God won’t answer.

• James 4:3 – When you ask you do not receive because you ask with wrong motives that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

If our prayer is detestable to God I don’t think He would answer that either.

• Proverbs 28:9 – If anyone turns a deaf ear to the law even his prayers are detestable.

I’m not saying don’t pray, I’m just saying we need to understand the reality of how God really operates not how we wish He operates.

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