Why Prayer Falls on Deaf Ears ( by @Daily_Encounter ) - My version

  2 years ago i subscribed to a website called Daily Encounter(Probably out of boredom)It kept sending me these emails that i didn't ever bother to read. However today as i was brushing through my mailbox (definitely out of boredom), i stumbled upon their email. So i decided to open in and "mark as spam". Little did i know what awaited me inside the email.

  *Warning: extreme dramatization ahead*

 

 

*Actually you marked it as spam*

 

 

*Oh well.. Let me just see who they are*

 

When Prayer Falls on Deaf Ears

"If we ask anything according to God's will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the request which we have asked from him."¹
*Oh great, another one of those emails..I should have guessed from ... wait that name looks familiar*

A Daily Encounter subscriber writes, "Being the doubting Thomas that I am, I feel that my prayers fall on deaf ears and my wife and I even argue about the effect of prayer today. If the power of prayer were effective today, I feel there would be less death, sickness, and turmoil. I struggle with it all."

*I pronounce you skipped!*

Certainly at times it can be difficult to understand why some prayers seem to get answered while others seem to never get answered. However, we also need to realize that sometimes God answers, "Yes" … sometimes "no" … sometimes, "wait a while." So, what makes the difference?

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First, pray in harmony with God's will. To get a "yes" answer to prayer, as today's Scripture points out, it is essential that all of our prayers are in harmony with God's will. When we pray accordingly, we have the assurance that God both hears and answers our prayers. To know how to pray in harmony with God's will, we need to know what God's Word, the Bible, teaches. Of this we can be certain, God will never answer a prayer that is opposed to his Word.
*Okay ha ha very funny God.. This joke ends now so I am closing my inbox now!*

*20 minutes later... *

Second, pray the right prayer. Realize that some prayers don't get answered because we aren't praying the right prayer; 

*Wait there is such a thing as..*

that is, we may be praying with wrong motives.

"Wrong motives?? Me ?? Okay I'm now deleting this... wait I see "God's word" i can't delete "God's Word"*

 As God's Word also points out: "You do not have because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures."²
*The truth hurts Lincoln, the truth hurts*
Third, pray..

*Wait whose voice was that?* 

.. about causes.

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  Another wrong prayer is when we want and ask God to deliver us from the symptoms of problems while we are in denial about or are avoiding facing and praying about the cause/s of the problem. For example, if we have stomach ulcers, there is no point asking God to heal this problem if we don't face and deal with the cause of the ulcers. In most cases it's not what we eat that cause stomach ulcers, but rather what is "eating" us, which could be stress, guilt caused by unconfessed sin, an impaired relationship, or any of a hundred other causes—especially including super-charged repressed negative emotions. As John Powell has said, "When I repress my emotions, my stomach keeps score."

Fourth, Pray believing. Faith, too, is essential for effective prayer. As Jesus said, "All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive,"³ and "according to your faith will it be done to you."⁴
*Okay you have my attention, but God, things are different. Times have Changed!!--- A prayer? Hell No!..... *

*You say no but you are already reading it*
Suggested prayer: "Dear God, please give me a love for learning what Your Word, ..

*Your eyes are not even closed, look she has noticed you are prayin..*

 the Bible, teaches so that I will always know how to pray in harmony with Your will. Also help me to see anything that I may be contributing to the problems I am experiencing, and help me always to pray believing and with the right motives. Thank You for hearing and answering my prayer. Gratefully in Jesus's name, amen."

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*Idiot, I'm still here*

*Maybe i need to do it with my eyes closed..but .. look..*

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*:-D*

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                   "I have been asking you all this time to respond to me yet it was me who was rejecting your call, Now i know you care :-)"  

And that my dear reader is how I ended up blogging about my new Daily Encounter -- pun intended