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There is something easier about rejection.

When a door closes clearly, you grieve and adjust.
But when nothing happens, no answer, no sign, no movement, the waiting begins to question your faith.

Many believers struggle more with silence than with suffering.

David once said, “I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, but I find no rest” (Psalm 22:2). Yet he kept praying. That honesty makes faith feel real, not polished.

Because silence can feel personal.
It makes you wonder if you prayed wrongly, waited wrongly, or believed wrongly.

But Scripture often shows that silence is not absence.
Habakkuk was told that the vision would take time, but it would surely come, and that the righteous must live by faith while waiting (Habakkuk 2:2–4).

Even Jesus prayed in Gethsemane and still walked through the process before relief came (Matthew 26:39).

I am learning that waiting seasons expose what we truly trust.
Do we trust God only when He responds quickly, or even when He is quiet?

How do you personally deal with long unanswered prayers without letting doubt take over?

I would genuinely like to hear your thoughts.

GlobalProTravel:
There is something easier about rejection.

When a door closes clearly, you grieve and adjust.
But when nothing happens, no answer, no sign, no movement, the waiting begins to question your faith.

Many believers struggle more with silence than with suffering.

David once said, “I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, but I find no rest” (Psalm 22:2). Yet he kept praying. That honesty makes faith feel real, not polished.

Because silence can feel personal.
It makes you wonder if you prayed wrongly, waited wrongly, or believed wrongly.

But Scripture often shows that silence is not absence.
Habakkuk was told that the vision would take time, but it would surely come, and that the righteous must live by faith while waiting (Habakkuk 2:2–4).

Even Jesus prayed in Gethsemane and still walked through the process before relief came (Matthew 26:39).

I am learning that waiting seasons expose what we truly trust.
Do we trust God only when He responds quickly, or even when He is quiet?

How do you personally deal with long unanswered prayers without letting doubt take over?

I would genuinely like to hear your thoughts.

I easily get discouraged, if there are no sign
At least if God is not ready to answer prayers, he should show some signs that he is aware about it, that should encouraged us and make us press more further

GlobalProTravel:
There is something easier about rejection.

When a door closes clearly, you grieve and adjust.
But when nothing happens, no answer, no sign, no movement, the waiting begins to question your faith.

Many believers struggle more with silence than with suffering.

David once said, “I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, but I find no rest” (Psalm 22:2). Yet he kept praying. That honesty makes faith feel real, not polished.

Because silence can feel personal.
It makes you wonder if you prayed wrongly, waited wrongly, or believed wrongly.

But Scripture often shows that silence is not absence.
Habakkuk was told that the vision would take time, but it would surely come, and that the righteous must live by faith while waiting (Habakkuk 2:2–4).

Even Jesus prayed in Gethsemane and still walked through the process before relief came (Matthew 26:39).

I am learning that waiting seasons expose what we truly trust.
Do we trust God only when He responds quickly, or even when He is quiet?

How do you personally deal with long unanswered prayers without letting doubt take over?

I would genuinely like to hear your thoughts.

Ooh! this is where I dash you the song Seasons by Hillsong

Like the frost on a rose
Winter comes for us all
Oh how nature acquaints us
With the nature of patience

Like a seed in the snow
I’ve been buried to grow
For Your promise is loyal
From seed to sequoia

PRE-CHORUS:
I know

CHORUS:
Though the winter is long even richer
The harvest it brings

Though my waiting prolongs even greater Your promise for me like a seed

I believe that my season will come

Powerbandooo:
I easily get discouraged, if there are no sign
At least if God is not ready to answer prayers, he should show some signs that he is aware about it, that should encouraged us and make us press more further

Ah! With respect, you are never going to get it because already you have a very bad attitude towards God.

I don't think you understand that you are talking about The President (King of kings) and not your genie.

And see, you prove why God was very right in choosing Abraham and not you.

Powerbandooo:
I easily get discouraged, if there are no sign
At least if God is not ready to answer prayers, he should show some signs that he is aware about it, that should encouraged us and make us press more further

God did not promise Christians what they are requesting from him in their prays.

Christians and churches are the ones putting their compulsory entitlements into God as prayer. And guess what? It doesn't work that way.

paxonel:
God did not promise Christians what they are requesting from him in their prays.

Christians and churches are the ones putting their compulsory entitlements into God as prayer. And guess what? It doesn't work that way.

Can you explain this further for we are entitled because God permits and allows us to be entitled. He granted us such rights

Dtruthspeaker:
Can you explain this further for we are entitled because God permits and allows us to be entitled. He granted us such rights

Where and when?

These are false hope from pastors!

We read this, David who was loved by God felt entitled too when he prayed that God should heal his sick child.

No Christian will get answers to his prayer when what he is asking cannot be solved practically.

Your prayer cannot get you any quick rich or fortune overnight, without taking the time to followi the gradual procedure step by step, except you want to go into scam.

Forget all those false testimonies they give in church. They are all desperately engineered to attract people

Alphabet consist of 26 letters. If your plan A failed , try B till you reach Z

paxonel:
We read this, David who was loved by God felt entitled too when he prayed that God should heal his sick child.

I don't understand? Are you saying that a person is not entitled to pray for healing?The centurion prayed for his servant (servant oo, not even child,to be healed and yet God answered. Same for Jairus daughter. Same for Abraham praying for Abimelech's household to uplift barrenness. So what are you talking about?

Dtruthspeaker:
I don't understand? Are you saying that a person is not entitled to pray for healing?

what happens to medications you get from pharmacies or the services of medical doctors?

God using miracle to interfer with natural processes was never so from the beginning,It was never his will.
He created man with brain to think.
He commanded him to replenish this world with his brain. And this what is happening today.

The centurion prayed for his servant (servant oo, not even child,to be healed and yet God answered.

that is because, he wanted the centurion to believe.
You see now that there is clear target or purpose for miracles, which is to bring Faith.

Same for Jairus daughter. Same for Abraham praying for Abimelech's household to uplift barrenness. So what are you talking about?

All these people had Faith in God because they saw miracles.

Now that you are already in the Faith do you need any miracle?
No!

So why are you afraid?

paxonel:
what happens to medications you get from pharmacies or the services of medical doctors?

God using miracle to interfer with natural processes was never so from the beginning,It was never his will.
He created man with brain to think.
He commanded him to replenish this world with his brain. And this what is happening today.
that is because, he wanted the centurion to believe.
You see now that there is clear target or purpose for miracles, which is to bring Faith.

All these people had Faith in God because they saw miracles.

Now that you are already in the Faith do you need any miracle?
No!

So why are you afraid?

Off Point

Off Point

Off Point

Dtruthspeaker:
Off Point

Off Point

Off Point

Defend your position by explaining how it is off point, you can't

paxonel:
Defend your position by explaining how it is off point, you can't

Your point was that because David was not granted his prayer of healing therefore we had no right to be entitled to pray for healing, which I have rebutted with contrary examples of those God answered their prayers for healing.
So, now talking about doctors, medicine and pharmacy is off point.

Dtruthspeaker:
Your point was that because David was not granted his prayer of healing therefore we had no right to be entitled to pray for healing, which I have rebutted with contrary examples of those God answered their prayers for healing.
So, now talking about doctors, medicine and pharmacy is off point.

The example you gave, is it what is happening in our current era?
The answer is no!

Did you give example of someone who had malaria or typhoid, but didn't take medication and depend on prayer then God healed him?
No

Why?
Because God cannot be mocked

paxonel:
The example you gave, is it what is happening in our current era?

That is why all these are Off Point

Dtruthspeaker:
That is why all these are Off Point

Your current life on earth cannot be off point while stories you read in the bible are point.

The bible was written for you to live your life, not the other way round.

If you read in the bible that people are calling God to heal them of leprosy, that should be off point this current era where there is advancement in medical researches and almost zero incidence of leprosy in our societies.

Treatments are everywhere someone is still shouting God God.

God no go even answer the person, he is on his own.

paxonel:
Your current life on earth cannot be off point while stories you read in the bible are point. .

No one is meant to argue an issue forever which is why The Law of off point and change of post is there.

GlobalProTravel:
There is something easier about rejection.

When a door closes clearly, you grieve and adjust.
But when nothing happens, no answer, no sign, no movement, the waiting begins to question your faith.

Many believers struggle more with silence than with suffering.

David once said, “I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, but I find no rest” (Psalm 22:2). Yet he kept praying. That honesty makes faith feel real, not polished.

Because silence can feel personal.
It makes you wonder if you prayed wrongly, waited wrongly, or believed wrongly.

But Scripture often shows that silence is not absence.
Habakkuk was told that the vision would take time, but it would surely come, and that the righteous must live by faith while waiting (Habakkuk 2:2–4).

Even Jesus prayed in Gethsemane and still walked through the process before relief came (Matthew 26:39).

I am learning that waiting seasons expose what we truly trust.
Do we trust God only when He responds quickly, or even when He is quiet?

How do you personally deal with long unanswered prayers without letting doubt take over?

I would genuinely like to hear your thoughts.

@bold:

My issue is not doubt because I firmly believe God can do anything; it is hurt that He doesn't want to do it.

So how do I deal with it?

I have realized that God does as He wills.... whilst people perceive that in a positive light; I see it as a matter of fact. Again, I believe that God views things as per the grand scheme of things.... Does your 'suffering' thwart His plans? If no, well, get used to it or solve it yourself or pray and He will answer if He wants to.

Like Pax.onel says, God is not a genie you command with prayers or fasting or supplication. That is the new generation Biblical teaching.

The God that hated Esau from the womb, created Pharaoh to be stiff necked for His glory, killed the first born sons of the Egyptians (including those who have no freaking clue of what was going on) and 'let' Satan destroy Job's family for testing testing can do anything He likes.

At the end, all we ask for is His mercy & compassion: Like Paul says 'He will have mercy on whom He will have mercy on & compassion on whom He will have compassion on.'

bukatyne:
@bold:

My issue is not doubt because I firmly believe God can do anything; it is hurt that He doesn't want to do it.

So how do I deal with it?

I have realized that God does as He wills.... whilst people perceive that in a positive light; I see it as a matter of fact. Again, I believe that God views things as per the grand scheme of things.... Does your 'suffering' thwart His plans? If no, well, get used to it or solve it yourself or pray and He will answer if He wants to.

Like Pax.onel says, God is not a genie you command with prayers or fasting or supplication. That is the new generation Biblical teaching.

The God that hated Esau from the womb, created Pharaoh to be stiff necked for His glory, killed the first born sons of the Egyptians (including those who have no freaking clue of what was going on) and 'let' Satan destroy Job's family for testing testing can do anything He likes.

At the end, all we ask for is His mercy & compassion: Like Paul says 'He will have mercy on whom He will have mercy on & compassion on whom He will have compassion on.'

You claim that you appreciate that God is not your personal genie but I don't you do, if not you won't be angry when you say that He did not answer your prayers.

And how can you say that He does not want to when He has even Said that He is always ready to attend to your prayers save that your sins have cut you off from Him?

So, all suffer in vain when they never learn what God teaches.

You say God hated Esau yet God blessed Esau greater and richer that he wanted nothing. He built a city while Jacob was still in japa levels looking for a place to live in. So where is the hatred?

Not to talk of Pharoah who he and his fathers lived in comfort and enjoyment for more than 400yrs and who subjected Isreal to slavery and over hard labour and even muderrd thousands of hebrew male babies. Why do you imagine that God would allow him to repent after all his evuls? And why would God not take Egypt's sons? Did Egypt not take Isreal's sons? Is The Law not a son for a son?

Not to talk of Job whom God took as His champion to boast against satan. If you thought your son was better than Ronaldo, would you not put him in the field with Ronaldo?

With all these, it is very clear why God can never ever answer your prayers for you a verybahd parsun and it is Written "the prayers of the Wike.'d is abhord to God".