I love this question Traveller. I think when God knows that the prayer or desire being requested comes from a place of ego or lower consciousness and is not for the higher good of us or those involved, the prayer seems to be unanswered.

However I feel another answer is always provided in the form of another opportunity, that often appears to the ego as a challenge, but actually contains the seed that is needed for optimal growth at the moment and is always for the benefit of everyone involved. When we attach terms and conditions to the prayer being asked we do not leave ourselves open to receiving the best possible answer.

In light of your above comment Traveller and briefly reading the answer you referred to I feel our own faith in the outcome is what really contributes to the answer we're given :)

Prayer is our way of communicating with God...all our wishes, thoughts, feelings, and hopes go out to God in our Prayers.

God wants us to talk to Him. He Wants us to pray, to share with Him all that we feel. I like having a personal relationship with God, and I like telling Him everything that is on my mind- good, bad or indifferent.

I gave up long ago the idea that God is some kind of eternal and immortal Santa Claus, granting wishes from His throne. I grew into a more mature relationship with Him when I stopped treating God like Santa. He is NOT Santa!

Rather, my prayers have become more like breathing- thoughts go out, and His thoughts sometimes come in, and we try to work together as One to bring about His Kingdom on Earth. I try to do His will, and sometimes, that is very, very hard. Other times, it is easy to do His will. It just depends on how aligned I am with Him at the time.

I think the center of prayer is the desire for the best good to come for all concerned. "Not my will, but Thine, Oh Lord," is my ideal attitude. Sometimes I fall short, but sometimes I can truly surrender and let go and let God do His thing, for He knows best. I have seen miracles unfold through the span of minutes or years, depending on the prayer. I think, like most people, my biggest struggles are with my own self-will, and what I think might be best. But God, in His turn, teaches me and is patient with me.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of Prayer as a part of Life. Not praying to God is like not ever talking to your employer at work, or your teacher at school, or your father or mother at home. That is just silly! God made us; He knit us together in our Mother's womb. (Psalm 139).

God grants our Prayers when they fit in with His Creation, when they are in the best interests of all concerned. No prayer comes back void. (Isaiah 55). We must be patient and we must, must have great faith!

I stand in testimony that God grants Prayers. I have Wade, when I thought that was never possible; I have returned to school to finish my degree when all those doors were slammed seemingly in my face. Praise God!

Many Blessings,

Jai

god always stand in truth. but belief are not always true. you need to speak to him from the heart for your benefit and the benefit of all according to his will not yours. so try to align with him. experience and enjoy.

Gooday. God doesn't answer anything. you are God, but you don't know it. From the day of conception your unconscious brain is recording everything it hears and feels, it is being loaded up like a new hard drive. These things keep loading up until a child is about 8 years old then the loading slows except for when stressed etc. These things loaded in our subconscious make our conscious mind believe these things are true. They are true to the beliefs of the people they came from but not true to the person. These loaded beliefs in our unconscious mind create our future, and we follow it no matter where it leads us. It is impossible for a human being to become ill, we create the illness from loaded things in our subconscious, the same as we create everything that happens to us - everything. We are where we want to be according to our unconscious belief structures. There is no difference between a murder and a priest, remove their loaded unconscious belief structures and they both become normal human beings.

Gooday. Here is another interesting thing to do with god. If a dog attacks someone badly, it gets a bullet. If we are made in the image of god as most religions say, we have to follow all of his traits, all, not just the ones we sellect. That makes god a murderer, a rapist, a saddist, a pedifile etc, should he get a bullet too?. There is no such thimg as free will. We are all programmed, our insecurities at and before birth control all of our life, but most people don't know it. Don't blame god for the good that happens to you and the devil for the bad that happens to you. You are the one that creates both of these, unfortunately you don't know you have created them. When you do, and you become free your life turns to true love and happiness, not false love and happiness.

is it possible that intention
inflamed with mighty desire
stirs a current out
to catch attraction