For Edexcel Religion and Life - the problem
of unanswered prayers.
«You don't watch television or look at things going on around you while praying; such things are the causes
of unanswered prayers,» he said.
One of the many forms of adversity comes by way
of unanswered prayers.
After all, now you're in the company of the people
of the unanswered prayers: we can hold both hope and grief together.
And that as we're living in the tension
of unanswered prayers, we must keep walking the streets.
The proof your god doesn't exist the millions, upon millions, upon millions
of unanswered prayer s that happen every day.
Most of the bitterness
of unanswered prayer comes from the assumption that God will juggle his universe to give us what we plead for if we plead long enough.
I do not understand the mystery
of unanswered prayer.
Not exact matches
And for some
of us, these
unanswered prayers feel like...
And some
of God's greatest gifts are His
unanswered prayers.
I most commonly hear the thought that atheists are angry at God, had
unanswered prayers, lost their way, need a support structure for their faith, etc. but I never hear anyone address the root
of the cause for most atheists: there is no empirical, indisputable evidence for any god — and that matters.
All
of us have said to ourselves, «God, I wish I had this or that», Sometimes an
unanswered prayer is a blessing.
The biggest contradiction is plugging a cross into the site where Jebus was a notable no - show on 9-11-2001 when a ton
of prayers must have been sent out, and then went
UNANSWERED.
It may be that you are facing a season
of emotional doubt: you have encountered disappointments,
unanswered prayer or feel distant from God.
All those
unanswered prayers (and the lack
of a brain) may make them eat their bibles instead.
I'd need to tell you about harsh winters and barren fields and doubting saints and
unanswered prayers, about the kind
of rising that only happens after you've been down on the ground for quite a while.
For years, I have besieged heaven with thousands
of prayers that seemed to go
unanswered.
Whats worse is that most
of you don; t know enough to answer back so your
prayers go
unanswered!
Only so many passes
of the plate,
prayers that go
unanswered, and seeing how bad the world can be sometimes taught me long ago that you should only count on yourself and those around you.
I pray I never see any more
of this sensationalist garbage, but that's a
prayer that's bound to go
unanswered.
Among these questions, whether voiced or not, is a desire to know what
prayer really is if it is more than wishful thinking, how it relates to God and to God's world, whether God is concerned with each
of us, what difference
prayer makes, why it so often seems
unanswered.
These are the things I remind myself
of when enduring conversations that start off as small talk and turn to the dangerous territory
of statements that stab you right between your heart and your
unanswered prayers.
And while some may argue that if one were to truly trust the sovereignty
of God, we would also be content, even in
unanswered prayer — and I get that.
«The greatest tragedy is not
unanswered prayer, but unoffered
prayer,» Fernandes explains at an MBS center in Thurbe, one
of India's largest red - light districts.
So over the course
of the next 30 years... my ability to believe in a supernatural narrative or a God who intervenes and does anything died a death
of a thousand
unanswered prayers».
And how about all
of those trillions
of prayers that go
unanswered?
It was because
of their lack
of faith that our
prayers went
unanswered.
I don't minimize pain and suffering and disappointment when
prayer is
unanswered, but I think we are making uneducated accusations against God without fighting our way into matters
of spiritual laws, forces and significance.
There is nothing about
unanswered prayer that contradicts the nature
of God.
An
unanswered prayer would not disprove the existence
of God.
In the song he softly suggests, «Some
of God's greatest gifts are
unanswered prayers.»
As I readied two batches
of cookie dough, one for rich espresso and the other for elegant matcha green tea, Garth Brooks»
Unanswered Prayers played in my head.
My biggest lesson during all
of this is that God is good, during answered and
unanswered prayers.
This lesson looks at reactions to
unanswered prayer and some
of the solutions offered to explain why some
prayers appear to be
unanswered.
This lesson looks at different types
of evil (it's necessary to have old newspapers) and the the story
of Job in relation to
unanswered prayer and suffering.
This lesson looks at how doubt in the nature
of God arises from
unanswered prayers and can lead to agnosticism or atheism.
Unanswered prayer is sometimes the best answer
of all.