Welcome to the InTouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, August 30th.

Have you ever prayed but become quickly frustrated with the delay?

Sometimes it's our decisions that keep the answers from coming.

Learn more as the series on how to talk with God continues.

What I'd like to do is to give you two list of things and I want you to write fast this morning.

Two list of things that you and I need to consider as to why our prayers go unanswered.

Now, we said on one occasion that God does answer all of our prayers.

He says, yes, no, and wait.

And that is true.

But I want us to look at the reasons we do not see the desires of our heart come to pass in the area of answered prayer.

And all of us have prayed at times and God did not do what we ask Him to do.

Now, you can say anything you want to say about it, but the real truth comes down.

Lord, you didn't do what I told you to do.

That's really sort of what we feel about it.

So I want us to deal with some very practical things.

And the first area here is this.

When everything is right between you and God.

Quad then, even then, are our prayers not answered the way we want to see them answered.

The first reason is this.

One of the reasons the prayer answer is withheld is because we don't want him.

We want what he has to offer.

God has ordained that we want him.

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