{"id":10808,"date":"2024-05-12T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/satchurch.lv\/?p=10808"},"modified":"2016-04-14T23:19:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T20:19:04","slug":"do-discouraged-feel-like-god-hasnt-yet-answered-prayer-keep-praying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/do-discouraged-feel-like-god-hasnt-yet-answered-prayer-keep-praying\/","title":{"rendered":"Do not be discouraged if you feel like God hasn\u2019t yet answered your prayer, keep praying!"},"content":{"rendered":" \r\n\r\nGood day, my dear friend.\r\nFor several days we have been looking at the account in the Bible about the Canaanite woman who decided to ask Jesus for help and help her he did.\r\n
\r\n\u201cLeaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, \u201cLord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is suffering terribly from demon-possession.\u201d<\/em>\r\nJesus did not answer a word. So his disciples came to him and urged him, \u201cSend her away, for she keeps crying out after us.\u201d<\/em>\r\nHe answered, \u201cI was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.\u201d<\/em>\r\nThe woman came and knelt before him. \u201cLord, help me!\u201d she said.<\/em>\r\nHe replied, \u201cIt is not right to take the children\u2019s bread and toss it to their dogs.\u201d<\/em>\r\nThe Jesus answered, \u201cWoman, you have great faith! Your request is granted.\u201d And her daughter was healed from that very hour.\u201d<\/em>(Mt.15: 21-28)<\/h6>\r\nIn this account we can see that this woman was asking in real desperation, but Jesus would not answer her immediately. Jesus did this purposely and we will see \u201cwhy\u201d in a minute. But for now I would like you to notice that even though Jesus did not respond, it did not stop the woman from pleading with him.\r\nMaybe today you are asking for God\u2019s help, maybe you are praying for the salvation of your children or you want them to change their attitude towards some things in life, there are many things you may be praying about.\r\nMaybe you are praying to God and it seems to you that the answer isn\u2019t going to come, maybe you feel like giving up on prayer, you think that prayer doesn\u2019t work. I\u2019ve spoken to people who were praying for a long time and started to disbelieve in the power of prayer as the answers were not immediate. The example of Canaanite woman shows us that it is wrong to think that there is no point in asking God for help. I would like to reassure you that your prayer is heard today! Even today there is magnificent power in prayer! Even if you sometimes feel that God does not hear or answer your prayers. The truth is \u2013 prayer changes things!\r\nThe Canaanite woman was perseverant in her request to Jesus. There is a reward for perseverance and faithfulness. This woman didn\u2019t think that there was no point in asking Jesus. She knew he could help her. She didn\u2019t give up easily and nothing could stop or discourage her, nothing could break her faith in Jesus!\r\nGod\u2019s appeal to you today is \u2013 do not be discouraged if you feel like God hasn\u2019t yet answered your prayer, keep praying! Have faith in God and pray to Him, don\u2019t give up. Pray till you receive an answer, because prayer changes things!\r\nJesus taught:\r\n
\u00a0\u201cAsk and it will be given to you…for everyone who asks receives.\u201d (Mt.7:7-8)<\/h6>\r\nAlso He said:\r\n
\u00a0\u201c…they should always pray and not give up.\u201d (Lk.18:1)<\/h6>\r\nMay God bless you!\r\nPastor Rufus Ajiboye","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maybe you are praying to God and it seems to you that the answer isn\u2019t going to come, maybe you feel like giving up on prayer, you think that prayer doesn\u2019t work. I\u2019ve spoken to people who were praying for a long time and started to disbelieve in the power of prayer as the answers were not immediate. The example of Canaanite woman shows us that it is wrong to think that there is no point in asking God for help. I would like to reassure you that your prayer is heard today! Even today there is magnificent power in prayer!","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-word"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":12,"label":"Daily Word"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/pexels-photo-2590164-1024x615.jpeg",1024,615,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Pastor Rufus Ajiboye","author_link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/author\/rufus-ajiboye\/"},"comment_info":1,"category_info":[{"term_id":12,"name":"Daily Word","slug":"daily-word","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":12,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","parent":0,"count":650,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":12,"category_count":650,"category_description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","cat_name":"Daily Word","category_nicename":"daily-word","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38419,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10808\/revisions\/38419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}