4 Bible Verses about Why Prayer Is Unanswered

Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask wickedly; that ye may spend it in your pleasures.

Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a servant 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 blown about and tossed by the wind. Let not that man think that he shall receive any thing from the Lord.

The pharisee standing by himself prayed thus, O God, I thank thee that I am not as other men are, rapacious, unjust, adulterous, or even as this publican. I fast twice a week, and I give tithes of all that I possess.