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Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test.
Sep 17, 2025
When God says no, we are sometimes tempted to wonder if He loves us. In reality, it’s because He loves us, He sometimes says no.
If God can bring blessing from the broken body of Jesus and glory from something that's obscene as the cross, He can bring blessing from my problems and my pain and my unanswered prayer.
If we rejoice in the acts of God without discovering His ways, we'll question who He is when He doesn't do what we've asked.
It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody’s out there.
I talk to God but the sky is empty.
Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test... You will be tested by major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved criticism, and even senseless tragedies.
He was near tears, 'Who do I blame?' he kept asking me. 'There is no God.I can only blame myself.'" The Reb's face tightened, as if in pain. "That," he said, softly, "is a terrible self-indictment." Worse than an unanswered prayer? "Oh yes. It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody's out there.
I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God. They just drop down and say a few words, and then jump up and forget it and expect God to answer them. Such praying always reminds me of the small boy ringing his neighbor's door-bell, and then running away as fast as he can go.
Teach me to feel that Thou art always nigh; Teach me the struggles of the soul to bear; To check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh; Teach me the patience of unanswered prayer.
One of the earliest religious disappointments in a young girl's life devolves upon her unanswered prayer for a horse.
The law demands good works and uses its terror--rejection, shame, fear of punishment, unanswered prayer, personal tragedy, etc.--as motivation. Here performance is a necessity to secure the blessings and avoid the curses. Grace, on the other hand, allows us to serve on a different basis--not from fear but on the basis of love and gratitude, from appreciation and gladness for blessings freely given and freely received.
Be sure that someday you'll praise and thank God for your unanswered prayers that once you had wept for them.
Our Lord never referred to unanswered prayer. He taught that prayers are always answered: “Everyone who asks receives”. And He implied that prayers are answered rightly because of the heavenly Father's wisdom: “Your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him”.
Give us this day our daily mask.
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.
Some unanswered prayers are only because God doesn't want to do something for us. He wants to do something through us.
Thank God for unanswered prayers.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers. Remember when you're talkin' to the man upstairs; that just because he doesn't answer doesn't mean he don't care. Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers
The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer.
Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
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