Love to hear from and know who is listening All my life and have had a disability, I am vertically challenged, in other less friendly words and am short. I used to claim I was 5 foot 7 inches tall because I am 5 foot 6 and ½ inches tall, so I just rounded up. As I have matured I have come to the conclusion that it is just easier to admit my short comings and say I am vertically challenged. I tell all my co-workers that I have a disability and because I work for the state government that have to provide me with the tools I need to overcome my disability. In order for me to complete my job on many occasions I need my vertical assistance device, a 3 step ladder, so that I can reach my work. Have you ever felt like you were vertically challenged? I am not talking about your physical characteristics I am talking about spiritually. Does it seem at times that your prayers are not rising up to the ears of your heavenly father.Isaiah 59:2 ESV but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and our sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear. Every Christian I know struggles with unanswered prayer. If you don’t, then either you’ve been only Christian for about 10 minutes or you’re lying. There are many reasons why you may feel like your prayers are going unanswered. It may be that your being impatient. The world today has become what I like to call a “Microwave Society.” We expect all our desires to be 30 seconds and ding, they are answered! God's timeline simply does not line up with ours.2 Peter 3: 8-9 ESV But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. In general, unanswered prayer is something we need to accept, it moves us to a deeper trust in God and a greater persistence in prayer. But there are a host of reasons God might not be answering your prayer. You may have wrong motives or selfish desires. Maybe you have been disobedient or have unconfessed sin in your life. It could be that the thing you are praying for is not aligned with God's will. Finally and I know none of us like admit this, but maybe you think there is simply no way God can do the thing you are praying for, you have doubt or a lack of faith. A lack of genuine belief and faith can weaken the effectiveness of prayer. For today I would like to focus on the one item that hits closest to home for me. My prayers are not being answered because they are selfish in nature.James 4:3 ESV You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. Sometimes God doesn’t grant us our prayer request because we ask with the wrong motives. Even if the thing we’re asking for may be good, in its own right, God doesn’t want to honor a heart asking from the wrong motivation. When we ask for things for our own selfish pleasures, God will not hear us. When we want things that are not in the will of God, He doesn’t listen. When we make vain repetitions with words that don't really come from the heart, He isn't going to listen. But when we ask according to His will, with our hearts, and in His name, He will hear, and we will receive. 1 John 5:14 ESV And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. Support the show

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