Closed doors.... I'm stuck all the time

[Rightman8080]

I feel great when I pray. At times I get the sense of urgancy to pray for someone and do it immediately. I have my morning prayers, novena, rosary then evening devotions. I pray as I can at work and pray in my sleep.

Prayer is a great communion with God, but I see no results from prayer. All doors are closed to me. Especially in my marriage. I am after 2 years of praying now divorced. I have prayed for my wife but see no positve results, the relationship gets worse. I try to move forward with my life doors are closed. Any thoughts on when the doors will be open? Am I doing something wrong in my prayer life?

 

[adamhovey1988]

I think you may be missing the point of prayer.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

It’s awesome that you have a good prayer life in spite of all the difficulties in your life.

It sounds like God may have closed a door with respect to your marriage/ relationship. I know that’s very difficult but you need to ask God honestly what he wants you to do with your life now, and listen carefully to his answer. Having a good prayer life does not guarantee you will get what you want or that you won’t have big trials in life.
It does allow you to have good communication with God so that when some difficulty occurs and things are just not working out as you want, you and God can work to solve the problem together.

 

[Dorothy]

We all have received answers to some prayers, and “wait” for other responses… At times what we may think is God’s will, we keep praying for a particular circumstance. Also, surrender to His will…He certainly hears you! We all need to keep praising and trusting Him more and more. He can surprise us, at times, in the way He answers.

 

[cmscms]

I can understand the frustration of praying for years and things only seems to get worse. It is a big struggle. But… and this is what no one wants to hear : Pray is to bring us comfort to bear the struggles, not to make the struggles stop. Once a person can accept that, the struggles don’t stop, but there is peace of mind

 

[Lee1]

Prayer is heard, no doubt about that but we must defer to Gods will. What we want is not always the best idea surely and prayers not acted upon teach us that God will have things His way, perhaps that’s what we are to learn from it.

It’s good to remember that our lives are for our spiritual training and to,give us a medium through which we can work our salvation. That’s personal and probably in subtle ways unique to is all depending on our spiritual needs.

Even company is a physical comfort and perhaps sometimes it’s denied to show us that. Who knows, Gods will be done.