Why aren't my prayers answered? | Two Minute Daily Devotional

David Hathaway · Oct 9, 2026 · 2m

Based on the Book of James, chapter 4, we are encouraged to ask God to supply our needs, but we need to ask with the right motive.

The reason you don't receive is because you don't ask God. You know, it – it's very interesting because in my life, I've always tended to take counsel from God and ask Him. I didn't ask my mother or my father – you may find that strange, but I didn't – and I didn't ask my brother. I'm just thinking at the moment, I can still see myself going into the shop, looking in the shop window, then going in the shop. And I certainly wasn't asking my mother, my father, my…