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Have you ever asked, “Why
didn’t God answer my prayers?”
Have you ever prayed for
something but then did not receive it? Have you ever wished for
something to happen, but it didn’t? Have you ever wondered why you
couldn’t get along with your sister, love your neighbor, save your
marriage, lose the weight, get that car, or anything else you prayed
for that you didn’t get an answer to?
It may surprise you to learn that you may have
had a part to play in your prayers not being answered! You prayers
may not have been answered because you had so little faith! Your
faith was too little to accomplish it!
“What?” you ask. “My faith? My prayers
weren’t answered because of my faith? How could that be?”
Peter, James, and John had the same question.
These disciples couldn’t figure out why their prayers weren’t being
answered either. They asked Jesus about it.
Matthew 17:19-20a
Then the disciples came to Jesus in private and asked, “Why
couldn’t we drive it out?” He replied, “Because you have so little
faith...”
Because they had so little faith! It was their
lack of faith that kept their prayers from being answered.
Sometimes it’s hard to have faith for
something, isn’t it? We pray about something, but because it is
such as large request, we don’t even believe it can be answered.
If we need healing, a new car, or a solution to a problem
relationship, the answer seems so impossible we don’t have any faith
for it. We say a prayer because we feel we should, asking God to
somehow take care of it, but we don’t really believe it can be done.
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