When we get that for which we pray, we say God answered our prayer. When we fail to get that for which we pray, we say, God didn\u2019t answer our prayer. Is it possible that God answered your prayer by saying, \u201cno?\u201d When some would-be followers of Jesus requested to first bury their father, the answer was, \u201cno\u201d (Luke 9:57-62). When a mother requested of Jesus to let her sons sit in places of prominence in the kingdom, the answer was \u201cno\u201d (Matthew 20:20-23). When Jesus asked the Father to postpone the cross, the answer was \u201cno\u201d (Matthew 26:39). When Paul asked to have his \u201cthorn in the flesh\u201d removed, the answer was \u201cno\u201d (2 Corinthians 12:8-9). Sometimes God\u2019s answer to our prayer request is negative, because we \u201cask amiss\u201d (James 4:3). In other words, we do not see the big picture as God does. God\u2019s answers always reflect the good of the kingdom, over the good of the individual who is praying. In his book, \u201cPrayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God,\u201d Pastor Timothy Keller writes, \u201cGod will either give us what we ask or give us what we would have asked if we knew everything he knows.\u201d So what do you do when God says \u201cNo?\u201d Give thanks. God heard your prayer and responded. Pray to any other god and you get zero answer. Allow God to teach you through the \u201cno\u201d answer. Pray again. God loves persistence (Luke 11:5-8; 18:1-5).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When we get that for which we pray, we say God answered our prayer. When we fail to get that for which we pray, we say, God didn\u2019t answer our prayer. Is it possible that God answered your prayer by saying, \u201cno?\u201d When some would-be followers of Jesus requested to first bury their father, the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-morning-manna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}