When God Doesn't Answer Your Prayers: Finding Hope in Disappointment | Encouraging Christian Sermon | John Giftah
Tonight's Episode
Do you feel discouraged when your prayers seem to go unanswered? In this uplifting Christian sermon, we dive into the mystery of GOD’s silence and offer biblical encouragement to help you navigate seasons of disappointment.Discover how to trust GOD’s greater plan, find peace in waiting, and strengthen your faith even when answers don’t come in the way you expect. This message is filled with hope and practical insights to remind you that GOD is always working, even when we can’t see it.
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Speaker 1: Are you in a place where you are so disappointed
Speaker 1: and you're hurt, and you're saying, I don't know why
Speaker 1: God is not answering my prayers, or God hasn't answered
Speaker 1: the prayer the way I've wanted him too, maybe with
Speaker 1: regard to your career, maybe with regard to your marriage,
Speaker 1: maybe with regard to some other area of your life
Speaker 1: that you've been praying about. And you're saying, I don't
Speaker 1: know why God did not answer my prayer. I don't
Speaker 1: know why I have to live with this disappointment the
Speaker 1: rest of my life. I don't know why God was
Speaker 1: not showing up. Why was God so mean to me?
Speaker 1: Maybe you are really disappointed, maybe you're really hurt. But
Speaker 1: I want you to understand this important truth. Guys, the
Speaker 1: God we serve is a good God. I want you
Speaker 1: to get that into your spirit, that this is not
Speaker 1: just theory, but this is from your heart. To know
Speaker 1: the God we serve is not only a good God,
Speaker 1: but he has good plans for your life. He's not
Speaker 1: having plans to harm you, to put you in a
Speaker 1: bad spot, but he has your best interest at that.
Speaker 1: He knows what is gonna happen. He knows things that
Speaker 1: you do not know about today. I want you to
Speaker 1: understand and if God did not answer the prayer the
Speaker 1: way you wanted him to, maybe God knows something that
Speaker 1: you do not know about. Maybe God knows something that
Speaker 1: you have no clue about today. I want you to
Speaker 1: trust God when he does not answer your prayer. I
Speaker 1: want you to trust God when he says no to
Speaker 1: your prayers. Can you trust him? I know this person
Speaker 1: who was praying that he would get into a certain course.
Speaker 1: He really wanted to get into that field, but for
Speaker 1: some reason, things were so unfair that he, no matter
Speaker 1: how much he prayed, no matter how much of counsel
Speaker 1: he went through with different people, trying to speak with
Speaker 1: the right people to get that opportunity, somehow things did
Speaker 1: not work. He was pretty disappointed. He was hurt, He
Speaker 1: started having panic attacks. Things were not the way it
Speaker 1: was supposed to be. It seems really unfair because he
Speaker 1: had to take up a course that he was least
Speaker 1: interested in him and he was just going about his
Speaker 1: life because he was still battling with the disappointment that
Speaker 1: he could not do the course that he really wanted
Speaker 1: to do. But one year down the line, what happened
Speaker 1: was when regard to that course that he initially wanted
Speaker 1: to do. There was some problem with the academic accredation,
Speaker 1: so the university had to suspend that course completely, so
Speaker 1: all those who had taken up that course had to
Speaker 1: drop out and start afresh with another course. What I
Speaker 1: want you to understand is, in the beginning, it did
Speaker 1: not make sense. Why wasn't God answering the prayer? Why
Speaker 1: was God so mean? Why was God not answering a
Speaker 1: simple prayer? Why couldn't he do this? He could have
Speaker 1: done it, but why didn't he do it? It was
Speaker 1: so hard, it was hurting so much. But the truth is,
Speaker 1: one year later this person understood why God had shut
Speaker 1: that door. It was all for good. I want you
Speaker 1: to understand that today you may be crying about something.
Speaker 1: Today you may be looking at some and saying, I
Speaker 1: don't understand why God is not answering. Like Jesus said
Speaker 1: in the scripture, he said, now you don't understand, but
Speaker 1: one day you will understand. I want you to know
Speaker 1: that one day you will understand why God closed that door.
Speaker 1: One day you will understand why God did not allow
Speaker 1: such a prayer to become a reality in your life.
Speaker 1: One day you will understand why he didn't open that
Speaker 1: door for you. One day you will understand why He
Speaker 1: didn't allow you to get hitched with that person. One
Speaker 1: day you will understand why that delay happened in your life. Today,
Speaker 1: you may be in a place where you're crying, but
Speaker 1: I want you to just wipe away your tears. Just
Speaker 1: know that we serve a good God. Someday or one day,
Speaker 1: you will definitely look back and say, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm grateful that God closed that door. I'm grateful that
Speaker 1: God did not answer the prayer the way I wanted
Speaker 1: him to. And I'm telling you, guys that when you
Speaker 1: give him to that place where you know that God
Speaker 1: is a God who knows how to use all of
Speaker 1: the things, whether it's a good thing or a bad thing,
Speaker 1: so to speak, he knows how to use it all
Speaker 1: for good because you love him and you call it
Speaker 1: according to His purpose. God. I pray for those who
Speaker 1: are watching listening from around the world, Let this word
Speaker 1: go forth in the name of Jesus and fill them
Speaker 1: with that faith, fill them with that strength, fill them
Speaker 1: with that hope. Knowing that even the prayers that are
Speaker 1: not answered the way they want him to They still
Speaker 1: trust you, knowing that you have a good plan for them,
Speaker 1: that you have a purpose for them, and you're going
Speaker 1: to fulfill everything in a beautiful way because you said
Speaker 1: in your word that the path of the righteous gets
Speaker 1: brighter and brighter. Their best days are in front of them,
Speaker 1: and you're going to show up in a way that
Speaker 1: you day never even imagine. In Jesus name, I pray Amen,
Speaker 1: God bless you.
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