Did God Reject My Prayers?

Can you admit that you’ve been praying some prayers for a minute now and have yet to see them manifest? You’ve made some sacrifices and even went as far as denying yourself through fasting only to receive wet pillows and buckets of disappointments.
“Did God reject my prayers?” You ask.

Let me tell you, you’re not alone. I’m there too. Wondering what I have been doing wrong. Trying to figure out where I missed the mark. It’s one thing to be rejected by people but it’s another thing to feel like you’ve been rejected by God. That’s an awful feeling I can’t even describe to you in this one post. However, what I can say is this, dry hopes and stale assumptions  will never measure up to sincere and genuine faith.

Yesterday, I literally had to refrain from doing anything just to understand exactly what could I possibly be doing to garner this absent feeling between me and God. I thought we were doing good. I thought our communication was on point. But, now I’m asking the same the question as you, “Did God reject my prayers?” It’s like going out on a date, having an awesome time, but you never get a call back. What’s up with that?

Now your journey may be completely different from mine but I believe we’ve somehow met up at the same intersection of Stagnation Ave. and Hesitation Blvd. Do you see that? God doesn’t just flat out reject prayers. He may say “No” but He will never ever just leave you hanging. He usually gives you some type of follow-up. You just have to be on the look out for it. But God never rejects the prayers of His beloved kings and queens. Deliverance is the children’s bread!

What happens is this, we allow fear, worry, doubt, and our own insecurities to keep us from accepting God’s answers whether it be “Yes” or “No.” We create our own monsters and wonder why we can’t sleep at night. We ruin our own appetites and wonder why we’re not eating. We convince ourselves that we want to breakout or breakthrough, but come up with as many excuses in the book as to why we can’t do it!

You may have prayed a prayer a whole year ago and guess what, God answered a year ago someway somehow. Also, He could have been answering you on up until now in different ways but you’ve been looking for one specific way. I just shared with my peers that your journey may not end with you even breaking out but shooting up! You’ve been praying for God to open up a window or a door and He’s pulled off the ceiling.

So since you know this now, it’s time to stop asking God for the same thing and instead ask Him to show you where He answered you. Ask Him to guide you to the place He gave you an answer. Because He didn’t reject your prayers, you rejected His answer.

       Matthew 7:7-8

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.”