Unanswered Prayers: The Most Common Reasons Why

[Bill]

One of the greatest benefits afforded to every Christian is the privilege of answered prayers. In the Bible, Jesus made this tremendous promise, “And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive” (Matt 21:22). However, despite the Lord’s willingness to answer prayer, it is obvious that some prayers have gone unanswered. Why is this? The following are the most common reasons why some prayers do not get results:

1. Lack of Fellowship with God and His word

John 15:7 “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.”

Unanswered prayers are sometimes a result of absence from fellowship with the Lord and His Word. Jesus promised that if we would remain in His fellowship, and allow His Word to remain in us, this would produce results in prayer.

2. Not seeking to Please the Lord

1 John 3:22 “And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.”
Answers to prayer come when we seek to keep His commandments and please the Lord with our life. This is not to suggest that we “earn” answered prayers, any more than we can earn salvation which comes only by faith (Eph. 2:8-9).

He answers our prayers from his “grace” and “mercy” (Heb. 4:16), not merely from our good deeds. However, keeping His commandments and pleasing the Lord is a product of our obedience to His word, which is faith in action (James 2:20). What are His commandments? He commanded that we are to love the Lord with all our heart, mind, and soul, and to love our neighbor as ourself (Mark 12:30-31).

Further, Jesus said we are to love our brethren as He has loved us. “This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you” (John 15:12). Lack of love, bitterness, unforgiveness is the root of many unanswered prayers, since faith works by love (Gal 5:6).

3. Unconfessed Sin in One’s Life

1 Peter 3:12 “For the eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, And His ears are open to their prayers; But the face of the LORD is against those who do evil.”
There is no doubt that sin will disrupt the flow of God’s blessings and answers to prayer. The psalmist, David wrote, “If I regard iniquity in my heart, The Lord will not hear” (Psa. 66:18).
All acts of rebellion and disobedience to God is considered sin. Sins of “commission,” are those overt acts which are done in disobedience. However, sins of “omission,” are those things we don’t do in obedience, but know we should (James 4:17). The remedy for all sin is to confess it to God, forsake it, and ask Him to forgive you (1 John 1:9).

4. Improper Motives

James 4:3 “You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.”
Our motives in our prayer requests are of concern to the Lord. He wishes to help us in our time of need, but is not obligated to answer prayers which will merely feed our carnal, worldly appetites and (lustful) pleasures.
Our motives and desires can be corrected by humbling ourselves, and drawing near to God (James 4:8-10).

5. Not asking in God’s will

1 John 5:14-15 “Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.”

God will only answer those prayers that are in “His” will. When we ask anything that is in His will, we can have assurance that those “petitions” (requests) are granted to us. God’s will is revealed through His Word, the Bible. Anything promised by His Word is His will, and we can be confident that He’ll honor our prayers based on His Word.

6. Don’t know how to pray

Luke 11:1 "...Lord, teach us to pray...”
Some lack effectiveness in prayer simply because they don’t know what the scriptures teach about prayer. Jesus gave His disciples an outline for prayer in Matthew 6:9-13. Take the time to study it.

Other passages teach that prayer is primarily to be a private, intimate time with the Lord (Matt. 6:6), to be intermingled with praise and thanksgiving (Acts 16:25, Phil. 4:6). Times of fasting with prayer are beneficial to strengthen our faith and power in prayer (Acts 14:23, 1 Cor. 7:5). Jesus often went to secluded places to spend prolonged periods in prayer (Luke 6:12, Matt. 4:2).

7. Lack of Faith

Hebrews 11:6 “But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.”
We cannot please God without faith.

Prayer is not merely “begging” from God. It is “believing” God and His Word! Faith will come forth and grow as we devote our attention to the Word of God (Romans 10:17). Our faith can also be “built up,” by praying in the Holy Spirit (Jude 1:20).

8. Misunderstanding of Faith

Mark 11:24 “Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.” Many do not understand that faith is believing in the reality of things, even though we cannot see them (Heb. 11:1).

Jesus said that “when” you pray, you must believe that you “receive” your answer at that moment. The word, “receive” comes from the Greek word, LAMBANO, which means “to receive now” (present tense). He then says we will “have” them. "Have" comes from, ESOMAI, which means “to possess later” (future tense).

So, when we pray we must believe in the finished results of our prayer, and we will eventually experience the tangible results sometime later.


9. Wavering faith

James 1:6-7 “But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;”

There are those who allow every “wind” of feelings or circumstances to influence or discourage their faith. They vacillate back and forth, like the waves tossed about in the sea. One day they believe, but the next, they’re ready to give up, and so forth.

Such persons usually base their faith on their feelings or emotions instead of God’s Word. They who waver in their faith cannot expect to receive “anything of the Lord.” Our faith must become stable, steadfast, and consistent to receive from God.

10. Failure to apply spiritual Authority

Mark 11:23 “For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, Be removed and be cast into the sea, and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.”

There are times that some prayers may not get far until we incorporate the spoken authority of the name of Jesus. The reason for this is that the problems we face may “sometimes” be a product of an evil spiritual origin. As Paul writes, “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places” (Eph 6:12).

In such cases, our prayers may need to engage in what we call “spiritual warfare” to obtain results.
The need for this type of prayer is most obvious whenever Christians deal directly with demonic activity. For this evil operation to cease, our prayers need to include the exercise of spiritual authority against the devil in the name of Jesus, commanding him to leave (Acts 16:18).

Therefore, as Jesus indicated, there will be times that we may need to literally speak to mountains (symbolic of obstacles and problems) and tell them to move in Jesus’ name.

11. Lack of Perseverance

Galatians 6:9 “And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.”

Probably the greatest reason that some prayers go unanswered is because many give-up praying and believing before they receive their answer.

As long as we have the promise of God’s Word, be patient and persistent - keep believing, and don’t quit, no matter how long it takes! God has a “due season” when He will bring the answer

THIS IS BILL BROWN'S TEXT

Well you covered all the negative reasons , let us look at the positive reasons.

Why you don't see your prayer answered. God has heard your prayer , but God's choise of timing is not yours .

God has heard your prayer , say healing for someone dying. And that person dies. Never think God didnt hear you . Understand , Gods plan is often unseen, or not understood . But those prayers are never waisted.

God hears your prayers . And you never see any results. What God is showing you, you dont need to see the results . Will you have the faith of the centurion ? ' Jesus got up to go with the centurion, to heal his servant. But the centurion said, i tell my servant to do this and he does it. I know if you say it, it will be done. Jesus stated " never have I seen faith like this in all of Israel " .

somehow my post got mixed into the text . Lol .

 

[PloughBoy]

I believe the Scriptures inform us that GOD answers all of His True Children prayers, They are not listening. Many times they have refused the "NO"! God does say, "NO" a lot of times. When you do not get what you ask for, maybe he said, NO! And that is a answer. And if that is not good enough, Go read the Book of JOB.

Like i told my youngest "daughter" years ago when she turn 13. I told her, you are a teenager now, and do you know what that mean? She said No. Then I told her, you have come to the age, when the Parent says; No a lot! She didn't like that! Somehow in their heads, they think when they become Teenagers, they receive more freedom. In a sense they do, but we have to put more and heavier chains on them. "Know how to give good gifts to your children, if they ask for a Fish would you give them a Serpent"?

Jesus went back and prayed 3 times that this cup would be removed from Him and got not a answer.

 

[Peace Seeker]

Thank you for your post, it is very informative and I appreciate the effort!

That said, my comment is going to be different than the ones I've read in this thread. I'm wondering if I'm alone in thinking that such an exhaustive list of "prayer do's" - biblical as they are - might possibly be a burden unable to bare to a new believer (or maybe even some mature ones?). If most Christians are able to "pull off" this checklist when praying (more power to you!), then I have to admit that that would be a downright depressing thought for me , because prayer is not that easy for me.

I see multitudinous books on the subject of unanswered prayer on the Christian store bookshelves, so obviously it can be a struggle for many people. So please don't take offence when I say that that list didn't help me as much as it helped others here, it mostly told me what I already know about the subject. When I think of those scriptures it seems like prayer is a CHORE, yet how can that be? I mean, surely God has made it easy, not hard, for us to come to him?

Is it really true that if I waiver, even a little bit, I might as well not ask Him for anything? Is God that rigid in His doings with us, despite His knowing all about how imperfect we are, and that we don't know how to pray to begin with, are fallible, looking through a glass darkly, etc.?

Good bless!

 

[Bill]

Why God doesnt answer prayers in a way that you either see or expect the result when you are a True Believer

We covered all the negative reasons , let us look at the positive reasons.

Why you don't see your prayer answered. God has heard your prayer , but God's choise of timing is not yours .

God has heard your prayer , say healing for someone dying. And that person dies. Never think God didnt hear you . Understand , Gods plan is often unseen, or not understood . But those prayers are never waisted.

God hears your prayers . And you never see any results. What God is showing you, you dont need to see the results . Will you have the faith of the centurion ? ' Jesus got up to go with the centurion, to heal his servant. But the centurion said, i tell my servant to do this and he does it. I know if you say it, it will be done. Jesus stated " never have I seen faith like this in all of Israel "

So many Christians are always " expecting " an answer . Do we dictate to God , break this jar and now Jesus fix it. Isnt that a King Harrod mentality. Let us strive to be more like the Centurion , believing without seeing.

 

[PloughBoy]

I will say this again, "GOD always answer a "True Child of GOD" and if he does not, I am a LIAR AND A DEVIL, and a false teacher of a proclaimer of "The Word of GOD 7 times over! Because i am a big enough of a FOOL to Believe and "Trust" in His "WORD" what He has said. And I know myself, for a man do not know me. He speculates on what i believe. For when i was young in the "Faith", which was once for all delivered to the saints. I thought like a "Child of GOD" but when i grew in "THAT" Faith, I put alway "Childress ways, and Childress thoughts and grew into the ways, of God, that leads into "sonship", therefore as a "Heir" of a "Shared Inheritance". that eyes have not seen, nor ears heard, neither have entered into "THE HEART OF MAN", the things which GOD hath prepared for them that l"LOVE HIM" BUT GOD Has Revealed Those Things to US!

After seeing these things, it is impossible to be, move or excited by things of this earth! or anything we can possible imagine! Help Jesus, and the World do not understand or False Christians do not understand what we know, of a better world , a Place that is nothing like this Place! More beautiful than "Heaven" itself, that will also be Destroyed with the whole Cosmos, and all Created things, and Behold He creates all things new! We have seen of those things! Not by Speculations, or dreams! "sonship" comes about, by obedience, "sonship" comes with a great "Responsibility"! Before we let our,16 year old daughter Drive our 70,000 dollar car and 60,000 pickup truck to high school. any time she wanted too, her own keys to all 6 vehicles. The day she got her driver license at 16 she was ready, and had reach "sonship"! between the age of 13-16, with tears, because i said "NO" a lot. It was trust that she knew the "Consequences" She was a example for her brother, a year behind her. I taught her in the process, when she wanted to do something, many times I said; "NO" and when she cried, I told her she better pray, and ask GOD to change my mind< That is the only way you leaving from this house tonight. And i told her, she better ask me with plenty of time for me to get a answer from GOD! LOL! I believe sometimes he did and sometimes he did.t.
(Proverbs 22)ASVB).
"Train up a child in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from it.
The rich ruleth over the poor; And the borrower is servant to the lender."

GOD is Not a your "Genie" in a bottle, you rub him, three times and him gives you your request!

Prayer is about forming you into a finish product on the inside, It shapes and forms you, And not by not giving you what you want! But what you need!; And we do not know what we need, neither do we now what we really want!
(Romans 8).
"for we know not how to pray as we ought; but the Spirit himself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered; 27and he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
[and God's will is Not trying to please you].

( And sometimes, this shoe fits us in our prayers).
"Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures."

We, know, that prayers for our brothers and sisters in Christ, who calls us to pray for them, is never wrong, but those prayers we pray for them can be hindered if we refuse, to abide in the "Vine". How could a christian even think, their prayers are effective, concerning their own household, and fellow Christians will be effective, if they are "Sleeping" around. lying, slandering, gossiping, living in "adultery", a life of deceiving", Living like that, do not get your prayers answered about your children your families. We must "Repent"! and turn from our wicked ways, Before our prayers, are prayed on the behalf of our love ones will be honor, because we need to abide in the Vine.

Jesus said:
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh it away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he cleanseth it, that it may bear more fruit. Already ye are clean because of the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; so neither can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for apart from me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

"The effectual fervent prayers of a righteous man availeth much"


[And if you abide in Him, You will know what to ask for.].
"for the LORD is my, Shepherd and I shall Not Want, for He is all I need"
NASB 1977
The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want.


Ezekiel 34:15
"I will tend My flock and make them lie down, declares the Lord GOD."

Do you hear HIM! Have He ever called your name?

Shalom

 

[Reba1]

If God answered every prayer, in the affirmative, i have even prayed i would be a widow. He know best.

 

[PloughBoy]

If God answered every prayer, in the affirmative, i have even prayed i would be a widow. He know best.

He knows best.

 

[brighthouse98]

I found something shocking about prayer one day,as I was in prayer,this was early in my walk,Holy Spirit inside me yelled" HEY!!!! remember something!!! Sometimes no answer is an answer!!" LOL I was not happy! It does greatly depend upon what one is praying about as well I found out.I reminded the Lord of (John 14:13) and he reminded me,the prayer is about waiting as well!( Isaiah 40:31)

 

[Bill]

I will say this again, "GOD always answer a "True Child of GOD" and if he does not, I am a LIAR AND A DEVIL, and a false teacher of a proclaimer of "The Word of GOD 7 times over! Because i am a big enough of a FOOL to Believe and "Trust" in His "WORD" what He has said. And I know myself, for a man do not know me. He speculates on what i believe. For when i was young in the "Faith", which was once for all delivered to the saints. I thought like a "Child of GOD" but when i grew in "THAT" Faith, I put alway "Childress ways, and Childress thoughts and grew into the ways, of God, that leads into "sonship", therefore as a "Heir" of a "Shared Inheritance". that eyes have not seen, nor ears heard, neither have entered into "THE HEART OF MAN", the things which GOD hath prepared for them that l"LOVE HIM" BUT GOD Has Revealed Those Things to US!

After seeing these things, it is impossible to be, move or excited by things of this earth! or anything we can possible imagine! Help Jesus, and the World do not understand or False Christians do not understand what we know, of a better world , a Place that is nothing like this Place! More beautiful than "Heaven" itself, that will also be Destroyed with the whole Cosmos, and all Created things, and Behold He creates all things new! We have seen of those things! Not by Speculations, or dreams! "sonship" comes about, by obedience, "sonship" comes with a great "Responsibility"! Before we let our,16 year old daughter Drive our 70,000 dollar car and 60,000 pickup truck to high school. any time she wanted too, her own keys to all 6 vehicles. The day she got her driver license at 16 she was ready, and had reach "sonship"! between the age of 13-16, with tears, because i said "NO" a lot. It was trust that she knew the "Consequences" She was a example for her brother, a year behind her. I taught her in the process, when she wanted to do something, many times I said; "NO" and when she cried, I told her she better pray, and ask GOD to change my mind< That is the only way you leaving from this house tonight. And i told her, she better ask me with plenty of time for me to get a answer from GOD! LOL! I believe sometimes he did and sometimes he did.t.
(Proverbs 22)ASVB).
"Train up a child in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from it.
The rich ruleth over the poor; And the borrower is servant to the lender."

GOD is Not a your "Genie" in a bottle, you rub him, three times and him gives you your request!

Prayer is about forming you into a finish product on the inside, It shapes and forms you, And not by not giving you what you want! But what you need!; And we do not know what we need, neither do we now what we really want!
(Romans 8).
"for we know not how to pray as we ought; but the Spirit himself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered; 27and he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
[and God's will is Not trying to please you].

( And sometimes, this shoe fits us in our prayers).
"Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures."

We, know, that prayers for our brothers and sisters in Christ, who calls us to pray for them, is never wrong, but those prayers we pray for them can be hindered if we refuse, to abide in the "Vine". How could a christian even think, their prayers are effective, concerning their own household, and fellow Christians will be effective, if they are "Sleeping" around. lying, slandering, gossiping, living in "adultery", a life of deceiving", Living like that, do not get your prayers answered about your children your families. We must "Repent"! and turn from our wicked ways, Before our prayers, are prayed on the behalf of our love ones will be honor, because we need to abide in the Vine.

Jesus said:
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh it away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he cleanseth it, that it may bear more fruit. Already ye are clean because of the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; so neither can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for apart from me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

"The effectual fervent prayers of a righteous man availeth much"


[And if you abide in Him, You will know what to ask for.].
"for the LORD is my, Shepherd and I shall Not Want, for He is all I need"
NASB 1977
The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want.


Ezekiel 34:15
"I will tend My flock and make them lie down, declares the Lord GOD."

Do you hear HIM! Have He ever called your name?

Shalom

Brother , i am not saying God doesnt answer prayer . What i am saying , we dont always get what we want .

 

[Bill]

I found something shocking about prayer one day,as I was in prayer,this was early in my walk,Holy Spirit inside me yelled" HEY!!!! remember something!!! Sometimes no answer is an answer!!" LOL I was not happy! It does greatly depend upon what one is praying about as well I found out.I reminded the Lord of (John 14:13) and he reminded me,the prayer is about waiting as well!( Isaiah 40:31)

Exactly

 

[Bill]

I will say this again, "GOD always answer a "True Child of GOD" and if he does not, I am a LIAR AND A DEVIL, and a false teacher of a proclaimer of "The Word of GOD 7 times over! Because i am a big enough of a FOOL to Believe and "Trust" in His "WORD" what He has said. And I know myself, for a man do not know me. He speculates on what i believe. For when i was young in the "Faith", which was once for all delivered to the saints. I thought like a "Child of GOD" but when i grew in "THAT" Faith, I put alway "Childress ways, and Childress thoughts and grew into the ways, of God, that leads into "sonship", therefore as a "Heir" of a "Shared Inheritance". that eyes have not seen, nor ears heard, neither have entered into "THE HEART OF MAN", the things which GOD hath prepared for them that l"LOVE HIM" BUT GOD Has Revealed Those Things to US!

After seeing these things, it is impossible to be, move or excited by things of this earth! or anything we can possible imagine! Help Jesus, and the World do not understand or False Christians do not understand what we know, of a better world , a Place that is nothing like this Place! More beautiful than "Heaven" itself, that will also be Destroyed with the whole Cosmos, and all Created things, and Behold He creates all things new! We have seen of those things! Not by Speculations, or dreams! "sonship" comes about, by obedience, "sonship" comes with a great "Responsibility"! Before we let our,16 year old daughter Drive our 70,000 dollar car and 60,000 pickup truck to high school. any time she wanted too, her own keys to all 6 vehicles. The day she got her driver license at 16 she was ready, and had reach "sonship"! between the age of 13-16, with tears, because i said "NO" a lot. It was trust that she knew the "Consequences" She was a example for her brother, a year behind her. I taught her in the process, when she wanted to do something, many times I said; "NO" and when she cried, I told her she better pray, and ask GOD to change my mind< That is the only way you leaving from this house tonight. And i told her, she better ask me with plenty of time for me to get a answer from GOD! LOL! I believe sometimes he did and sometimes he did.t.
(Proverbs 22)ASVB).
"Train up a child in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from it.
The rich ruleth over the poor; And the borrower is servant to the lender."

GOD is Not a your "Genie" in a bottle, you rub him, three times and him gives you your request!

Prayer is about forming you into a finish product on the inside, It shapes and forms you, And not by not giving you what you want! But what you need!; And we do not know what we need, neither do we now what we really want!
(Romans 8).
"for we know not how to pray as we ought; but the Spirit himself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered; 27and he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
[and God's will is Not trying to please you].

( And sometimes, this shoe fits us in our prayers).
"Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures."

We, know, that prayers for our brothers and sisters in Christ, who calls us to pray for them, is never wrong, but those prayers we pray for them can be hindered if we refuse, to abide in the "Vine". How could a christian even think, their prayers are effective, concerning their own household, and fellow Christians will be effective, if they are "Sleeping" around. lying, slandering, gossiping, living in "adultery", a life of deceiving", Living like that, do not get your prayers answered about your children your families. We must "Repent"! and turn from our wicked ways, Before our prayers, are prayed on the behalf of our love ones will be honor, because we need to abide in the Vine.

Jesus said:
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh it away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he cleanseth it, that it may bear more fruit. Already ye are clean because of the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; so neither can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for apart from me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

"The effectual fervent prayers of a righteous man availeth much"


[And if you abide in Him, You will know what to ask for.].
"for the LORD is my, Shepherd and I shall Not Want, for He is all I need"
NASB 1977
The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want.


Ezekiel 34:15
"I will tend My flock and make them lie down, declares the Lord GOD."

Do you hear HIM! Have He ever called your name?

Shalom

God always hears me . LOL , but He won't give me what i have asked for . Why do you think that is ?

The Father lives in me and i live in the Father.

He sends me to the flickering flames and he sends me against the enemies of mankind .

He has me teach , preach , and help many . Yet still He will not give me the request i asked .

That request was . " Father, you know my love for you can not be shaken. Let me take the place of one soul in hell . And let that person have my place in heaven "

You see , it doesnt matter to me where i go , as God is already with me .

 

[wyce]

Great piece! From my view, I listed 5 reasons prayers are not answered. You can check it out and add them to the Op's list above. Stay blessed