God's hearing your prayers vs. answering your prayers

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I know God hears all of our prayers.
But does he answer all of our prayers?
I know he won’t answer them always in the way we want, but if he doesn’t answer them that way, isn’t that the same as not answering them at all?
For example, I ask for a cure for a health issue.
I know God hears me.
Yet God, for whatever reason, allows the health issue to remain.
How is that answering my prayer?
 
God does answer our prayers, each and every one of them. It is true that God may not give you the answer you want, but He is still giving an answer.

Yes, no, and not now are all answers that God could give to any prayer. However, it is for us to accept the plan that He has for us, even if it isn’t what we wanted.

God bless. 🙂
 
Domnall said:
God does answer our prayers, each and every one of them. It is true that God may not give you the answer you want, but He is still giving an answer.

Yes, no, and not now are all answers that God could give to any prayer. However, it is for us to accept the plan that He has for us, even if it isn’t what we wanted.

God bless. 🙂
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I am dealing with a similar issue and it is either no or not now.

You have to be persistent and ask for big things as God is capable of great things and wants to do great things for us. While a question on fixing a health issue is important also ask that He grants you the Kingdom of Heaven or the strength to accept your diffficulties. Or you want Faith and the gift to evangelize well. God Bless
 
“No” happens to be an answer. 🙂 God isn’t a lottery machine, but a wondrously loving Father. Let’s not think our own earthly parents have not answered us when they refuse to buy us certain treats; on the contrary, the answer is often a firm “no”.
 
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Yet God, for -]whatever/-] Hisreason, allows the health issue to remain.
How is that answering my prayer?
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God as others have said always answers our prayers. On His timetable, according to what He knows you need.

Here’s an example. My father died suddenly of a massive stroke when I was a child, and as an innocent child, I prayed to Him to bring my dad back to me. I really suffered, as a male, by not having a male role model in my life when I was a teenager.

Fast forward nearly 40 years, when I entered a rough patch in my life and marriage; when I was nearly despondent from the issue, I went to see my Benedictine spiritual director, a wonderful monk who is also director of Oblates of which I am one.

He said to me “I can see that you really are suffering from the loss of your father many years ago. If you’ll let me, I’ll be your father”. Then he gave me a great big hug. I was in tears. He really meant it, and was really sincere and has been a huge presence in my life.

God, you see, DID answer my prayers to have a wonderful, decent father in my life. But on His timetable, and at a time when I truly needed it.

And with my spiritual director’s help, a healthy dose of reconciliation on both sides, and lots of prayer, my wife and I managed to get past the rough patch.
 
HeWillProvide said:
I know God hears all of our prayers.
But does he answer all of our prayers?
I know he won’t answer them always in the way we want, but if he doesn’t answer them that way, isn’t that the same as not answering them at all?
For example, I ask for a cure for a health issue.
I know God hears me.
Yet God, for whatever reason, allows the health issue to remain.
How is that answering my prayer?
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God does hear all prayers and answer all prayers. His answer is what is best to benefit the Holy Will. Reasons that prayers are answered are the way they are because of our sins, praying unjustly and asking of things that will not benefit.
 
HeWillProvide said:
I Yet God, for whatever reason, allows the health issue to remain.
How is that answering my prayer?
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there are many possible answers to a prayer besides “Yes, right away, yessir, boss”
such as
Yes but not now, in the time I deem best for you
Yes but after you cooperate with Me
Yes but after you remove anything in your life that has created a barrier to My grace
No, it is not in your best interests
No, I have a plan for you that does not include your request
No, you are asking for something harmful or immoral
No, this experience is going to bring you closer to Me, and someday you will thank Me for letting you have this grace

and so forth

the purpose of prayer is NOT to make God align His will to ours, but the other way around, to bring us into perfect conformity with His will. It is also necessary with any healing prayer to also ask very specifically for what we want, and to seek spiritual healing as well as bodily healing, and to cooperate with the ordinary means God has provided for healing including those professionals he has gifted in this area.
 
melchesidechpio said:
God does hear all prayers and answer all prayers. His answer is what is best to benefit the Holy Will. Reasons that prayers are answered are the way they are because of our sins, praying unjustly and asking of things that will not benefit.
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**I don’t believe prayers are answered the way they are because of our sins…those of us that go to confession, making a sincere confession and an honest act of attrition…nope…that answer doesn’t fly with me at all…as for praying unjustly…my VBS kids said…you can’t wish for things and ask God…wishes are for Santa…who prays unjustly, might as well spit into the wind.

We will get from the asking in our prayers what God wants us to have at that point in our lives and besides he already knows what we are praying for and what we will praying for tomorrow…so…perhaps he would rather hear something like. God I am your servant and will do your will.

stormy

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stormy99 said:
**I don’t believe prayers are answered the way they are because of our sins…those of us that go to confession, making a sincere confession and an honest act of attrition…nope…that answer doesn’t fly with me at all…as for praying unjustly…my VBS kids said…you can’t wish for things and ask God…wishes are for Santa…who prays unjustly, might as well spit into the wind.

We will get from the asking in our prayers what God wants us to have at that point in our lives and besides he already knows what we are praying for and what we will praying for tomorrow…so…perhaps he would rather hear something like. God I am your servant and will do your will.

stormy

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I am mearly taking what St. Augustine said in the early church.
 
**There is no benefit from suffering from bad health…my husband has cancer…no benefit from that at all…and yes I asked God why? He’s a decent person and did God whisper in my ear…no he did not…but going to Mass lifts me enough to lift my husband a bit and he’s not a complainer…

If my prayers were answered the way I want to be…he would never get it in the first place, but he did…

stormy**
 
stormy99 said:
There is no benefit from suffering from bad health…my husband has cancer…no benefit from that at all…and yes I asked God why? He’s a decent person and did God whisper in my ear…no he did not…but going to Mass lifts me enough to lift my husband a bit and he’s not a complainer…

If my prayers were answered the way I want to be…he would never get it in the first place, but he did…

stormy
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I strongly disagree that there is no benefit from suffering from bad health. Just look a Padre Pio.
 
**I still can’t believe in the benefit of poor health…many saints had this but I am not a saint nor is my husband…just regular people trying to be good Catholics…some times doing well, some times faltering but always trying.

stormy**
 
stormy99 said:
**I still can’t believe in the benefit of poor health…many saints had this but I am not a saint nor is my husband…just regular people trying to be good Catholics…some times doing well, some times faltering but always trying.

stormy**
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mam;
we are all called to be saints. You don’t have to be canonized a saint by the Church. If you enter heaven you are a saint. You and your husband can offer your sufferings up to God. I pray for you and your husband in anything you may encounter. I believe whole-heartedly that the both of you are wonderful Catholics and always will remain wonderful Catholics in your life.
 
**Thanks…we both try…giving it to God is the easy part…living it each day takes more effort.

stormy**
 
The Holy Father wrote a book that analysised the Lord´s Prayer. It was beautiful. I´m convinced there is nothing we can ask that is not covered already in that Prayer. God bless:thumbsup:👍👍
 
Ben_F said:
The Holy Father wrote a book that analysised the Lord´s Prayer. It was beautiful. I´m convinced there is nothing we can ask that is not covered already in that Prayer. God bless:thumbsup:👍👍
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Agreed. The Holy Father has such wonderful writings and he is into the Pater Noster.
 
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