When God Doesn't Answer Your Prayers: Finding Hope in Disappointment | Encouraging Christian Sermon | John Giftah

0:00 Speaker 1: Are you in a place where you are so disappointed

0:02 Speaker 1: and you're hurt, and you're saying, I don't know why

0:04 Speaker 1: God is not answering my prayers, or God hasn't answered

0:07 Speaker 1: the prayer the way I've wanted him too, maybe with

0:10 Speaker 1: regard to your career, maybe with regard to your marriage,

0:14 Speaker 1: maybe with regard to some other area of your life

0:16 Speaker 1: that you've been praying about. And you're saying, I don't

0:18 Speaker 1: know why God did not answer my prayer. I don't

0:21 Speaker 1: know why I have to live with this disappointment the

0:23 Speaker 1: rest of my life. I don't know why God was

0:26 Speaker 1: not showing up. Why was God so mean to me?

0:29 Speaker 1: Maybe you are really disappointed, maybe you're really hurt. But

0:33 Speaker 1: I want you to understand this important truth. Guys, the

0:35 Speaker 1: God we serve is a good God. I want you

0:37 Speaker 1: to get that into your spirit, that this is not

0:40 Speaker 1: just theory, but this is from your heart. To know

0:42 Speaker 1: the God we serve is not only a good God,

0:45 Speaker 1: but he has good plans for your life. He's not

0:48 Speaker 1: having plans to harm you, to put you in a

0:51 Speaker 1: bad spot, but he has your best interest at that.

0:54 Speaker 1: He knows what is gonna happen. He knows things that

0:57 Speaker 1: you do not know about today. I want you to

0:59 Speaker 1: understand and if God did not answer the prayer the

1:02 Speaker 1: way you wanted him to, maybe God knows something that

1:07 Speaker 1: you do not know about. Maybe God knows something that

1:11 Speaker 1: you have no clue about today. I want you to

1:14 Speaker 1: trust God when he does not answer your prayer. I

1:18 Speaker 1: want you to trust God when he says no to

1:20 Speaker 1: your prayers. Can you trust him? I know this person

1:25 Speaker 1: who was praying that he would get into a certain course.

1:28 Speaker 1: He really wanted to get into that field, but for

1:31 Speaker 1: some reason, things were so unfair that he, no matter

1:35 Speaker 1: how much he prayed, no matter how much of counsel

1:38 Speaker 1: he went through with different people, trying to speak with

1:41 Speaker 1: the right people to get that opportunity, somehow things did

1:45 Speaker 1: not work. He was pretty disappointed. He was hurt, He

1:48 Speaker 1: started having panic attacks. Things were not the way it

1:51 Speaker 1: was supposed to be. It seems really unfair because he

1:55 Speaker 1: had to take up a course that he was least

1:57 Speaker 1: interested in him and he was just going about his

2:00 Speaker 1: life because he was still battling with the disappointment that

2:03 Speaker 1: he could not do the course that he really wanted

2:05 Speaker 1: to do. But one year down the line, what happened

2:09 Speaker 1: was when regard to that course that he initially wanted

2:13 Speaker 1: to do. There was some problem with the academic accredation,

2:18 Speaker 1: so the university had to suspend that course completely, so

2:23 Speaker 1: all those who had taken up that course had to

2:26 Speaker 1: drop out and start afresh with another course. What I

2:30 Speaker 1: want you to understand is, in the beginning, it did

2:32 Speaker 1: not make sense. Why wasn't God answering the prayer? Why

2:35 Speaker 1: was God so mean? Why was God not answering a

2:39 Speaker 1: simple prayer? Why couldn't he do this? He could have

2:41 Speaker 1: done it, but why didn't he do it? It was

2:43 Speaker 1: so hard, it was hurting so much. But the truth is,

2:48 Speaker 1: one year later this person understood why God had shut

2:52 Speaker 1: that door. It was all for good. I want you

2:55 Speaker 1: to understand that today you may be crying about something.

2:58 Speaker 1: Today you may be looking at some and saying, I

3:00 Speaker 1: don't understand why God is not answering. Like Jesus said

3:03 Speaker 1: in the scripture, he said, now you don't understand, but

3:06 Speaker 1: one day you will understand. I want you to know

3:09 Speaker 1: that one day you will understand why God closed that door.

3:12 Speaker 1: One day you will understand why God did not allow

3:16 Speaker 1: such a prayer to become a reality in your life.

3:19 Speaker 1: One day you will understand why he didn't open that

3:21 Speaker 1: door for you. One day you will understand why He

3:24 Speaker 1: didn't allow you to get hitched with that person. One

3:27 Speaker 1: day you will understand why that delay happened in your life. Today,

3:32 Speaker 1: you may be in a place where you're crying, but

3:35 Speaker 1: I want you to just wipe away your tears. Just

3:39 Speaker 1: know that we serve a good God. Someday or one day,

3:43 Speaker 1: you will definitely look back and say, you know what,

3:46 Speaker 1: I'm grateful that God closed that door. I'm grateful that

3:50 Speaker 1: God did not answer the prayer the way I wanted

3:53 Speaker 1: him to. And I'm telling you, guys that when you

3:56 Speaker 1: give him to that place where you know that God

3:58 Speaker 1: is a God who knows how to use all of

4:01 Speaker 1: the things, whether it's a good thing or a bad thing,

4:04 Speaker 1: so to speak, he knows how to use it all

4:07 Speaker 1: for good because you love him and you call it

4:09 Speaker 1: according to His purpose. God. I pray for those who

4:12 Speaker 1: are watching listening from around the world, Let this word

4:15 Speaker 1: go forth in the name of Jesus and fill them

4:17 Speaker 1: with that faith, fill them with that strength, fill them

4:20 Speaker 1: with that hope. Knowing that even the prayers that are

4:23 Speaker 1: not answered the way they want him to They still

4:26 Speaker 1: trust you, knowing that you have a good plan for them,

4:29 Speaker 1: that you have a purpose for them, and you're going

4:31 Speaker 1: to fulfill everything in a beautiful way because you said

4:35 Speaker 1: in your word that the path of the righteous gets

4:37 Speaker 1: brighter and brighter. Their best days are in front of them,

4:40 Speaker 1: and you're going to show up in a way that

4:42 Speaker 1: you day never even imagine. In Jesus name, I pray Amen,

4:46 Speaker 1: God bless you.