Why Prayer Is Not Automatically Answered

For many, balancing the prospect of a divine responset to our cries for help against the disappointment of a heavenly silence tips the religious scales in favor of scepticism. Henry nowan says that this idea of prayer being one sided creates great frustrations in prayer. If i formulate a question and ask for an answer, i expect a response but more often than not these things do not happen. And soon i begin to suspect that my dialogue with god is a monologue. Then i ask myself, who am i talking to? or am i just talking to myself? I honestly don't know why some prayers are answers and others are not. As a pastor, i have joined with many people as as