Question:
My prayers are not answered, why?
?
2016-06-10 23:28:34 UTC
I have been praying since I was a kid. I stopped months ago because i thought that God doesnt care about me at all. Then something bad happened. I was so desperate and statted praying two days ago. I prayed all day. Like 10 times and still, nothing happened. Ive confessed all of my sins to God and asked for forgiveness. I have been praying hard. Today at 4:00 am, my sister was rushed to the hospital and i stayed home. Instead of going back to sleep i prayed for 5 minutes. I woke up with my sister on her bed from the hospital. While she was sleeping, i prayed again. Its been really tough and i dont know what to do. But even though im losing hope and faith already im still trying to build myself up because i know God hears me. But i just dont know if he will answer.
35 answers:
?
2016-06-10 23:44:10 UTC
If you read your Bible prayer isn't so much about asking God to do something for you. It's more of a meditation that helps you focus on a goal which you have in mind in order that you act on it. Prayer without movement isn't a true prayer. Don't expect for any of your prayers to be answered if you are slouching about on your bed. Try to learn about whatever is wrong with your sister and help her through this tough time. Be there for her (making someone happy is a type of healing).
Raja
2016-06-12 03:23:12 UTC
Life is an account book. Credits are your good deeds and debits are your sins. If you do something bad you must be ready to face the consequences. If you get punishment for the sin you didn't do you will get the compensation by some way.



God never bothers who believe Him. God cannot watch each and every human being at the same time. That's why He had created the spirits to watch, guide and determine the destiny of the human beings from their daily activities, talks and thoughts too. Your past determines your present and your present determines your future. God has given freewill to all creatures including human beings. According to this, all human beings have all right to live a life as they wish. But if it happens to be bad and hurts someone, they have to face the consequences. These consequences are created by spirits. It's a natural system. After death no one lives in any form. Heaven and hell are only for spirits. Spirits are separate elements. A human being is not a single spirit. A human being during his/her life time is living with many spirits which have joined one by one since birth. They are knowledge, skills, feelings, emotions, interests and everything. Even thoughts are not your own. When you want to take a decision on a subject, one after another the spirits think and you just listen, choose or reject the ideas which they transmit to your mind through your brain in the form of thoughts. A human being is just a robot made of flesh, bones, tissues etc., and a toy of the spirits for their games.
?
2016-06-11 01:03:28 UTC
Let's say you have a dad, and as a little kid, you ask him over and over again if you can stick a fork in a light socket, is the dad going to say you can? In the same way, God is your father and he only wants what is best for you. Now in the bible, the disciples asked Jesus how to pray, and he showed them. There are also other verses that teach us how to pray as well, and in each instance, they are coming before God with their open heart, their real need, and their desire to see his good come about at any cost. It sounds like you've been raised in church and just kind of went along with things until you began to drift away, then satan attacked, and now you are looking to God again, but you don't really even know him. Pick up a bible and learn who you are praying to. We are to have faith and trust that our prayers will be answered, but how can you have faith in Jesus if you haven't really spent time to know him. If you did, would he not hear you? And if he had some other plan, wouldn't you know that he is good no matter what he does?



The bible says to seek first, then those good things will be added to you. Seek, and then you will find, knock and then the door will be opened. It sounds like you want a genie, and god isn't a genie. He does care and love you greatly, and he has a great plan for your life, but he wants you to come to him first, and those things will be added to you.
?
2016-06-12 00:58:55 UTC
God does not hear the prayers of those who refuse to listen to Him (Zechariah 7:13, 12). And there is conditional aspects to God's blessings --- Jeremiah 18:7-10. The condition is as it has always been -- God does not change -- (Psalm 89:34; Malachi 3:6; James 1:17; Hebrews 13:8; 1 Peter 1:25). That condition is our obedience to Him.
leen
2016-06-12 17:41:57 UTC
If you have faith that God hears and answers our prayers, he will. The reason why your prayers are not answered is you are not praying with enough faith to make it happen. Remember the woman who had an issue of blood, she believed that all she had to do was touch the hem of his garment and shewould be healed. Perhaps you should fast a day or two, this will build your faith in believing that you are worthy to receive whatever you are praying for.
Vickie
2016-11-23 10:09:54 UTC
I hope you are better. you are loved and God has never forgotten you. I am forty seven and was in the same place as you most of my life. I thought, why does God hate me so much? Today, every pain, every heartache, every trial makes sense. his word says He will make our paths straight, and the rough places smooth. I always thought this meant He would clear the way for My will, my wants...but Christ's path led to the cross and that is the path God cleared and made straight. It takes time to find the path that is His will for you. God has not forgotten you, He hears you. Brokeness, heartache..these things do not mean He doesn't hear you. My biological father never wanted to know me and my step-father terriozed and bully me daily claiming it was religion, and the bible said this was how females should be treated. Now my passion is helping women and showing them God is not a bully. You won't understand until you get there, what God is up to but HE DOES hear you.
Pam
2016-06-11 09:50:40 UTC
I'm sorry to hear about your sister, I could imagine how desperate you feel for her recovery, I don't know your name or hers, but I will include your family in my prayers. God knows who you are so I trust in God He will know I'm praying for you. You should gather together with your family and pray together, don't lose hope and faith, keep praying. Before you see any answered prayers you need to get to know God Almighty. Start reading the Bible, begin with the New Testament, that is how I began reading the Bible. Once Jesus Christ was risen in my heart and with the Holy Spirit's guidance I am able to understand the Bible fully, without the Holy Spirit, you won't be able to understand many things within it. Start listening to Christian music as well it helps you get closer to God, the music doesn't save, it's Jesus Christ, but listening to worship songs about Him help you get closer to Him. Look up Lincoln Brewster There is Power, you can find that song on YouTube. God Bless.
Cajunboy
2016-06-12 21:51:41 UTC
And how do you know that what ever happens with your Sister's situation that it wont provide for a better life for all? How do you know that if you lose someone it's not to gain more? Wouldn't your sister be in a much better place with God if she were not here? We all hate losing people in our lives but how little does that actually show that we trust God? What I think you're telling God is that you love your Sister or a family member more than you love him. Tell God this, "Your Will be done, Father" And be at peace. You don't know if God has anything to do with your Sister's life at this point. But if God is testing your strength and faith right now, you need to be ready.
?
2016-06-11 00:24:33 UTC
Talk to Jesus...he always answers.he doesn't ask for anything but sincerity..even when I was in my darkest times, when I would call on his name, he would answer my prayers..the bible says that all authority has been given unto Jesus under heaven and earth..there is power in his name..it's being honest with him with where you are at and asking him to help you..it's would start by forgiving anyone you have unforgiven essential towards, ask him to forgive you and to be Lord of your life..when he does, he will lead you and your conscience will speak to you as to what is displeasing to him
?
2016-06-11 16:34:06 UTC
God answers prayers in ways we can't always see, much less understand, but He always answers! I'm sorry that you're sister is ill. God's response is always right, even when it's not what we ask for. Just trust that, sand hold onto faith that God knows what's best.
?
2016-06-10 23:50:42 UTC
Only God knows exactly why He doesn't answer your prayers but we do know that God does NOT hear sinners but those who WORSHIP HIM and DO HIS WILL - these HE HEARS (John 9:31)



So do you worship God continually and do His will? Jesus said He wanted us all to be baptized by full immersion in the Name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, observing and obeying ALL THINGS THAT JESUS COMMANDED (Matthew 28:19).



You can't just ignore all these instructions and then expect God to do His part. You NEED TO BE OBEDIENT if you want a relationship with God.



If you ignored your parents for weeks on end and never spoke to them except when you wanted something, and they told you not to go out and you disobeyed them and went out, do you think they would respond to your requests for help and love just when you fancied? I doubt it.



You need to have a mutual relationship with God at all times - obeying His instructions in His Word to you.



He is not a great big Santa in the sky who you call upon once a year when you want something. Give God something back. Worship Him, love Him, thank Him, obey Him - then perhaps you would be more likely to get a response.
jon pike
2016-06-12 11:32:58 UTC
I've personally said prayers that took years to answer. To God, one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. He exists outside of time, and maybe, just maybe, he has to arrange the circumstances of your life to answer your prayer.



Either that or the answer is "no" and you don't want to hear it.
2016-06-11 12:10:21 UTC
Prayers are not answered because "God" is a creation of someone's imagination. He does not exist, and is therefore powerless to do anything, The entire bible and koran are false and evil literature designed to cause strife, turmoil and death.Free yourself from the chains of guilt.

Read the entire bible and koran and you will see that the false god spoken of in the fake books is a megalomaniac, insecure child bully, not worthy of anything but disdain.

You will be better off educating and relying on yourself.
?
2016-06-11 00:07:47 UTC
Your prayers are not answered, because an all-knowing, all-powerful, all-good god who listens to prayers and answers them and intervenes in our lives does not appear to exist.



Think about this--you praying, and not having your prayers answered--is an experiment. You tested the hypothesis that a god exists who answers prayers. The hypothesis failed. Try it again--right now. But make it something that cannot happen naturally on its own, otherwise how will you know it's natural or supernatural? Pray for something unnatural, and therefore supernatural. Like ask god to levitate you three feet into the air for five minutes. Pray for an amputee's limb to grow back.



And think about this also. Think about all the suffering in the world. Millions of children die under the age of 5 every year worldwide--often in agony and suffering. Many of these children's parents no doubt believe in god devoutly. Think of how they must have cried and prayed and wept and begged god to save their child--and nothing. Imagine their pain and grief. God did not intervene to save their lives.



Yet all too many believers will pray to god asking him to make their team win the football game. Think about how narcissistic and uncaring that is. God won't save children from a cruel, agonizing, suffering death--yet he'll help your football team win.



And consider this also. If a god exists, he has much bigger fish to fry. If we look across the universe, we see that there are hundreds of billions of galaxies, each with hundreds of billions of stars, and we are finding that planets are common. That's a stupendously huge number of places where life may exist. Even if a tiny percentage have life, that's still millions of alien civilizations, even they are almost certainly, very far away.



In any given star system, there are asteroids and meteors smashing into planets. There are supernovas, vaporizing any planets nearby. There are massive black holes, gobbling up anything within their gravitational field, and ripping everything apart until every star or planet is nothing but a stream of atoms swirling into the event horizon. Massive jets of x-rays shoot out from the poles of these black holes, incinerating or at least sterilizing any planet in their paths for thousands of light years. There are whole galaxies careening into each other, scattering some of their stars out into the void.



Yet, people on Earth think that a God is watching THEM, cares about who they have sex with and in what position, and think that if they pray to this god, he'll make sure they win the football team.



I do not believe in gods, but if there is one, he clearly does not intervene in his creation, and he does not answer prayers.
GEO PIERCE
2016-06-11 10:41:34 UTC
I'm so sorry to hear that your sister is very sick. If you would visit the website jw.org, you can key in suffering in the search engine. You will find that God does not cause suffering. You can also learn about God and how to serve Him. You can also request a free home Bible study.In this way, you can really learn about God and His way of dealing with us. You will find him to be very loving (James 4:8).
2016-06-11 01:24:01 UTC
You don't pray from the heart then. I pray sincerely and God ALWAYS answers my prayers! It's not a lie.
?
2016-06-11 17:13:07 UTC
God answers all prayers. But we must pray that God's will be done. Not our will.
2016-06-10 23:42:02 UTC
Maybe it's not that it wasn't answered but he didn't give you the answer that you wanted



EDIT: When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. James 4:3
Sly Phi AM
2016-06-10 23:42:31 UTC
Prayer is worse than useless because time wasted praying could be spent doing something productive instead.
2016-06-10 23:51:02 UTC
Your praying to God and hoping He will answer you based on what YOU have done, NOT what Jesus Christ has done for us. That is why God will not hear your prayers, pray to God based on what Jesus has done for us and as long as your motives are right and it is accordance with His will for your life it will be answered. Then you have to KNOW in your heart that He will answer you.
?
2016-06-10 23:32:32 UTC
Recall Jesus' request to "let this cup pass from me, but not my will, but thy will be done"?



Even Jesus' prayers were not always answered like he wanted. Sometimes God's will is different from ours.
?
2016-06-11 00:30:56 UTC
The problem of gods not existing has always been the root cause of prayer not working
?
2016-06-11 00:22:01 UTC
This probably isn't the answer you want (then again this is coming from an agnostic) but chances are that god doesn't exist/care. Sorry. But have your faith. I don't care.
?
2016-06-10 23:40:31 UTC
Ever heard of "the Lord's Prayer" (Our Father...)? Yes? Notice the line that says "...thy will be done..."



Be happy 🙂
?
2016-06-11 00:59:35 UTC
sounds like it's time to try something new i would suggest that every time you feel like praying you put 5 dollars in a pray jar
?
2016-06-16 21:36:34 UTC
God will eventually answer. It might be a long time but He always answers. Just keep praying and be patient. Hope your sister's okay.
Liliane
2016-06-11 07:04:14 UTC
I feel so sorry for you, but you cannot simply wish for some higher power to make everything okay.
?
2016-06-11 04:19:49 UTC
Well, you might try reading the bible and learning what prayijg is all about, or you could go to jw.org and get the same information.
?
2016-06-11 06:31:55 UTC
Maybe they have been answered but God is telling you No!
2016-06-11 02:38:09 UTC
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2016-06-10 23:30:29 UTC
Great time to give up nonsense and free yourself, if you have any self-respect.
?
2016-06-11 02:48:38 UTC
I want this, I want that, give me this, give me that - that is not praying that is begging and trying to use god as a servant!
2016-06-11 01:01:08 UTC
answers do not come in words they come by deeds etc.
?
2016-06-10 23:37:53 UTC
Try another God. I mean the true God.
?
2016-06-11 13:26:27 UTC
The jewhova worthles god never answers , he is only god of the jews. He is the reptilian collective consciousness, he is a thoughtform, and is command by the jews and only for the jews. In reality God is backwards. YHVH: The Truth About "Yaweh" "Jehova"

Taking the Mask Off of Christianity





The Judeo/Christian Bible has always used extreme fear as a tool to keep people away from the occult, sorcery, "witchcraft,” and workings of the mind. In the article below, the reasons are obvious. In order for a spell to succeed, the victim must lack the necessary knowledge, be a good sheep, and just "believe."



Exodus 22:18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.



"YHVH" aka "Yaweh" "Jehova" is nothing more than a system of Jewish magick. "YHVH" known as the "tetragammaton" represents the four corners and elements, as does "INRI" along with the four gospels; these represent the four corners of magick and the four elements that are so important in any magickal working. "YHVH" is used extensively in (Jewish) magick. The Jews stole the Kabalah from the Egyptians and corrupted it. It is mainly chanted- "Yod Heh Vau Heh" in different combinations.



The Gentile people have been force fed Christianity in order to strip us of all knowledge and power. Those at the top play both sides against the middle. What this means is the enemy works from within both sides- each side bashing the other while they both move ahead. This is analogous to a cop who is heavily involved in an open and public anti-drug crusade and secretly sells and pushes drugs unbeknownst to his family and community.



Following the Roman sacking of the Temple of Solomon 70 CE, Christianity was invented by the Jews the best known is (Paul aka "Saul of Tarsus) so they could control the world using the ancient known powers of the mind and the soul. The Jews themselves know the Nazarene is a fictitious character based upon some 20 crucified heroes from Pagan pantheons. With the centuries of devout belief in this entity and the psychic energy poured into him through prayer, he has taken on a life of his own. See Thoughtforms. For example, Odin hung from a tree, Set was crucified on a furka, Buddha sat beneath the Bo (Boa- again the serpent) tree for enlightenment; the list goes on. Most of the character of the Nazarene was stolen from the Persian God "Mithra." In working a spell, it is always important a connection be made.



In the case of Christianity, all of the former Pagan (Gentile) Gods were bound and replaced with fictitious Jewish deities. The Hebrew Virgin Mary replaced Astaroth, the Hebrew Moses legend was stolen from Sargon (both were born in secrecy, left in a reed basket to float down the river and adopted by royalty), Hebrew Abraham was stolen from Hindu Brahma. "Brahma in Sanskrit means "many." The endless list goes on and on. See Exposing Christianity There isn't anything in the Christian religion that hasn't been stolen from Pagan religions pre-dating it from hundreds to thousands of years. The Pagan Gods, being a powerful racial memory in the minds of Gentiles were replaced with Hebrew characters to be slavishly obeyed and worshipped. This set the stage for immense power and control.



Christianity has always been nothing more than a tool to remove spiritual knowledge and power from the Gentile population and to keep us from our Gods, namely our True Creator God given the name Satan, which means "adversary/enemy" in Hebrew . Those Gentiles who were priests and leaders were tortured and put to death. The others who did not follow suffered the same lot and any Gentile even suspected of having ties to the old religions was labeled as a "heretic" and put to death. Of course, the Jews rant and holler concerning the Christian Church's persecution of their small communities during the Middle Ages, but this is the age old playing both sides against the middle and those Jews at the top could care less how many of their own they have to use. Tomás de Torquemada, First Grand Inquisitor of Spain was a Jew.



The Jews have had full control of the Catholic Church (original Christian Church) from the beginning. Most of the Catholic popes were of Jewish origins, such as the late John Paul II who was born of a Jewish mother (Katz) and recognized as a Jew by the Jewish orthodox. Through the Catholic sacrament of confession, the Catholic clergy had everyone, namely the Gentile leaders and nobility over a barrel. They knew their deepest and darkest secrets.



The Catholic Church is the bulwark of Christianity. Since the Protestant reformation, the Jews have also gained control of these sects. The "World Council of Churches" is another example.



The Jews have had a vast pool of psychic energy from which to draw from. The Jews appointed themselves as "The Chosen of God," the star character of Christianity, the Nazarene is a Jew (and a powerful thoughtform), the Virgin Mary and her husband Joseph are Jews, the 12 apostles of the Nazarene (13 makes a coven- again stolen from the Ancient Pagan religions)- all Jews. In addition, all of the characters of the Old and New Testament were stolen from Gentile characters and replaced as the "Chosen" Jews.



So the average Christian Gentile, ignorant to the clandestine workings of the Jews and the occult, pours more and more psychic energy through devotion and prayer into this Jewish energy vortex and people wonder how this minority has most of the world's wealth and power. The Gentiles, namely the Christians have been under a very powerful spell for centuries.



They cut us off from our Gods, our traditions and our spiritual and religious heritage through mass murder, replacing our history with nothing but lies and through fear of the unknown since all Gentile knowledge was taken out of circulation.



Their angelic filth- most have names with the classic seven letters: Gabriel, Raphael, etc. These seven represent the seven chakras and were used to bind the Gentile Gods and make slaves of them using the "Goetia." The Goetic black books or "grimoires" all originated with the Jews, such as "The Key of Solomon," and "The Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage" and many more, (these can easily be found online, by typing their titles into a search engine) all originally written in Hebrew as most Gentiles cannot read Hebrew. All use the Hebrew symbols and chants and direct intense blasphemy against the Gentile Gods who have been turned into devils, demons and hideous monsters to be degraded. The Gentile Gods are no longer bound and some of those complacent prophesies slipped such as "Azazel being bound until the end of time." I can assure you he is now totally free.



Christianity goes in steps. Because it is fictitious, it is spiritually unreliable. Certain Christians have at times tapped into this energy vortex and obtained results. Prayer groups and such put forth psychic energy. Deluded Christians are told to "have faith." Having faith is necessary for any spell or directed working of the mind to succeed. With Christianity, it is hit and mostly misses. The few and far in-between hits keep the deluded believing, unknowing this is not any "miracle" but only the power of the mind. The end objective is atheism. The atheist believes in nothing and disregards anything "supernatural" or of the occult. He/she is a sitting duck just waiting to be manipulated by those who possess occult knowledge and power.


This content was originally posted on Y! Answers, a Q&A website that shut down in 2021.
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