Reasons Why Answered Prayers Delay (and What We Do While Waiting)

Epaphras Prays Podcast · Apr 6, 2026 · 4m

Most of us have been there. We’ve brought the same request before God again and again, wondering if He hears, wondering if we’ve done something wrong, wondering if we should just stop asking. But Scripture and church history are full of stories of people who waited — and found that the waiting itself was part of the answer.

A woman once came to a pastor in tears. She’d been praying for her prodigal son for eleven years. “I’m starting to think God doesn’t care,” she said. The pastor opened his Bible to John 11 and read her two words: “Jesus wept.” Then he said, “He cares. He’s just not…