Why God? “Why Didn’t God Answer My Prayer?”

Why God?
Why Didn’t God Answer My Prayer?
5/24/26
Pastor Mark England

God is .

God is faithful to .

Why Didn’t God Answer Prayer?

To answer that question, you must first know that we are not the in the story!

God doesn’t exist to .  

We exist to .

John 14:13-14 (CSB) Whatever you ask in my name, I will do it so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. ¹⁴ If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.

The purpose of prayer is to so we can do .

God is not our .

God is not a when life gets hard.

God is not a to be pushed, but a to be pursued!

” for why your prayer is not being answered…

1. Maybe you have a .

Mark 11:24-25 (CSB) Therefore I tell you, everything you pray and ask for—believe that you have received it and it will be yours.²⁵ And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven will also forgive you your wrongdoing.”

2. Maybe you have the .

James 4:3 (CSB) You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

Matthew 6:5-8 (CSB) “Whenever you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by people. Truly I tell you, they have their reward. ⁶ But when you pray, go into your private room, shut your door, and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. ⁷ When you pray, don’t babble like the Gentiles, since they imagine they’ll be heard for their many words. ⁸ Don’t be like them, because your Father knows the things you need before you ask him.

3. Maybe you God will do it.

Mark 9:22-24 (CSB) “And many times it has thrown him into fire or water to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.” 23 Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’? Everything is possible for the one who believes.” 24 Immediately the father of the boy cried out, “I do believe; help my unbelief!”

4. Maybe God has .

Proverbs 19:21 (CSB) Many plans are in a person’s heart, but the Lord’s decree will prevail.

Isaiah 55:8-9 (CSB) “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways.” This is the Lord’s declaration. ⁹ “For as heaven is higher than earth, so my ways are higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Daniel 3:17-18 (CSB) If the God we serve exists, then he can rescue us from the furnace of blazing fire, and he can rescue us from the power of you, the king. ¹⁸ But even if he does not rescue us, we want you as king to know that we will not serve your gods or worship the gold statue you set up.”

If God has something , have no doubt that it is also !

5. Maybe God is waiting for you to .

Isaiah 59:1-2 (CSB) Indeed, the Lord’s arm is not too weak to save, and his ear is not too deaf to hear.² But your iniquities are separating you from your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not listen.

Unanswered prayer is not because God is too .

Unanswered prayer is because our is too far away from God’s will.

Proverbs 15:29 (CSB) The Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

We aren’t for God to answer our prayer.

God is for you to be in to receive it.