4 Bible Verses about Why Prayer Is Unanswered

Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may expend it on your pleasures.

We know that God heareth not sinners; but if a man be a worshiper of God, and do his will, him he heareth.

But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting: for he that doubteth is like a wave of the sea, driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing from the Lord.

The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed thus, God I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week: I give tythes of all that I possess.