Our Struggle with Unanswered Prayer

In the Zone #7

1. SOMETIMES GOD HAS ________________________________

“I tell you the truth, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name … Ask and you will receive it. And your joy will be complete.”

John 16:23-24

“We are sure that he hears us if we ask him for anything that is according to his will. He hears us whenever we ask him; and since we know this is true, we know also that he gives us what we ask from him.” 1 John 5:14-15 (GN)

I am praying out-of-synch with:

· His ____________________________________

Point: When the request is not right God says _________________

2. SOMETIMES GOD HAS ________________________________

“God certainly does everything at just the right time. But we can never completely understand what he is doing.”

Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NCV)

God is just not ready ______________________________________

I am just not ready ________________________________________

Point: When the time is not right God says ____________________

3. SOMETIMES GOD HAS ________________________________

“Will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? ... However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?” Luke 18:7-8

“There is no one who calls on Thy name, who arouses himself to take hold of Thee.” Isaiah 64:7 (NASB)

“My Father! All things are possible for you. Take this cup of suffering away from me. Yet not what I want, but what you want.”

Mark 14:36 (GN)

· He challenges my _____________________________________

· He deepens my _______________________________________

· He broadens my ______________________________________

· He tests my __________________________________________

Point: When I am not right God says _________________________

WHEN EVERYTHING IS RIGHT GOD SAYS __________________