4 Bible Verses about Why Prayer Is Unanswered

You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if any one is a worshiper of God and does his will, he listens to him.

But he must ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord,

The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, 'God, I thank you that I am not like other menextortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.'