God answers prayers. How many times do we hear that statement? Truth of the matter: that is not a true statement as most think of it. The Creator can be silent, which in most cases means no. With some, they have no password. (We are to come before God with Jesus as our mediator.) Then God answers some prayers, but not all are answered in the way we expect. Let me give you some cases in point.
David prayed he would be taken to a place where he wouldn’t have to deal with reality.
Psalm 55:6-8
And I say, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove!
I would fly away and be at rest;
yes, I would wander far away;
I would lodge in the wilderness; Selah
I would hurry to find a shelter
from the raging wind and tempest.”
Elijah asked God to take his life.
1 Kings 19:4
But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
The double-minded man’s reality:
James 1:7–8
For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
God has rules when it comes to answered prayer, so make sure you’re playing by the rules. The first is that you must be a bonified child of God.
Give it some thought.
Gary