How Do We Know When God Answers "No" To Our Prayers? CQ Podcast Highlight
How do we know if God is saying "no" to us if we can't actually hear Him say it? Watch to this highlight, then listen to the full podcast to hear more:
https://christianquestions.com/doctrine/how-to-pray-part-i/
Therefore, I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong." God said "no." And Paul's reaction was, if this means the power of Christ dwells in me more completely, then bring it on. This was a life-changing blessing.
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I'm impressed at the moment he was told "no," he never asked again. Do we know if Paul received an audible answer though? Because it'd sure be easier to know when to stop asking and when to take no for an answer, if we could just hear God or Jesus say it directly. How do we talk to a spirit being when we can't physically hear the response?
That's an important question. There is a variety of ways to answer that. The key thing is, as we saw in the first segment, it's the attitude of our prayer. It's the humility and the contrite heart and the understanding that God is in control. It's also working in line with scriptural principles. You "hear," not verbally, but you hear the answer when your request is put in the context of scriptural principle and appropriate response to whatever the circumstance or challenge or trial might be. Yes, that's not really answering the question as directly as you'd like it. But it leaves us to do some interpreting and understanding and following of God's will, not ours.
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