Major Reasons for Unanswered Prayers

I would like to reveal a major reason why our prayers for the recovery of our various problems such as financial crisis and sicknesses, return unanswered most of the time.

Well, many of us have had this bad experience with God. You know why? It is not because God does not answer our prayers, but because God has already given what we pray for. For example, we may pray for the healing of a sickness in our body, but we may not see God healing our sickness miraculously. simply for the fact that the Scripture says we are already healed by the stripes Jesus bore on His body.
(1Pe 2:24)
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

But then how come you have got your sickness? Well, you have got the sickness as the devil has placed it in us.

How come the devil places sicknesses in us when Jesus has healed us? Well, Jesus has healed us, but it is our responsibility to preserve this healing in our bodies without allowing the devil to steal it from us by placing sicknesses in us.

You might think Jesus is rather unfair in giving us this responsibility to preserve our healing from the devil. Not at all. Jesus placed the healing in us and then gave us AUTHORITY to fight against the devil when the devil comes to steal it from us. In other words, we have a fight againt the devil all the time in our life in order to preserve what God has already given us. St. Paul refers to this fight as the fight of faith.
(1Timothy 6:12)
Fight the good fight of faith ...

Thus, God has already given us most of the things that we pray for, but we find them lacking in our life as the devil has stolen them from us. We are mistaken all the time and thereby destroyed because of our lack of knowledge of the Word of God.
(Hosea 4:6)
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee...

You know, the cause of the majority of our problems is the devil. When the devil becomes the cause, you have to deal with the devil too while praying to God. In other words, PRAYER is not enough when dealing with the devil. Truly we do not have to depend on God anymore to deal with the devil as Jesus Christ has already given us AUTHORITY to stand against the devil. Because of this authority, most of the time, God wants us to fight against the devil and restore what He has already given us.

But many Christians do not understand this truth. They think they have nothing to do with the devil as the devil is not appearing before them in his real form. Remember, there is no Christian Life under the sun without the influence of the devil. We should not think that we are free from the devil as we are  very nice people, going to the church every Sunday morning. Whether you talk about the devil or be silent about the devil, the devil attacks you. Only difference is the devil does not appear in his real form before those Christians, who do not want to deal with the devil. These Christians are truly in sickness, in financial crisis, in fear of their enemies and in so many other agonies. But unfortunately they never suspect the devil. They always think that God has allowed their problems to come on them because of their own sins or shortcomings. As a result, they always plead to God, begging for their delivery. In their failure to identify the real cause of their problems, the devil destroys them up to the point of death. 

How do you fight against the devil? Well, our fight against the devil is purely a Spiritual Battle.

(Ephesians 6:12)
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

In order to fight against the devil, you need a SWORD. This Sword is the Word of God, which can cut the devil asunder. We must use this sword to fight against the devil.
(Heb 4:12)
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

All you have to do is to simply use this Word and speak to the devil as well as to the problem. For instance, when you feel the symptoms of a disease, you must quickly begin to speak to the sickness as well as to the devil. Here are some statements...

I rebuke the pain in my body in the Name of Jesus Christ!
I command the healing to my body in the Name of Jesus Christ!
Oh, sickness, you have no place in my body. Healing is my inheritance!
I refuse to be sick in the Name of Jesus Christ!
I have been healed from all sicknesses by the stripes Jesus bore on His body as it is said in 1 Peter 2:24!
So, the devil, I command you to get out of my body with your sickness!
I break and cancel all the plans of the devil to make me sick!
I take the Authority Christ has given me and use this Authority to rebuke and cast out all evil spirits that have gathered together against my healing!
Oh, my body! Be healed in the Name of Jesus! (You can place your own hand on the place where you have the pain when using these words)

You know, since 2009, I fell sick only once, that was somewhere in February 2010. I believe this sickness was allowed to come on me as a trial to test my faith in God. However, thereafter, I could retain the healing in my body at the commands of my mouth. During the first few months of my battle against the devil and the sickness, I happened to get symptoms of fever, cold etc at certain times. But still I was fighting for my healing and managed to bring them under control before they could make me totally sick. Now you believe me I don't even get symptoms of a disease. So this is a great achievement in my spiritual life as I used to be sick very frequently for more than 25 years.

By this you can understand how cunningly the devil is entering our body and making us sick. Although you could not see the best results at the very outset, you learn to achieve the very best when you continue to fight against the devil. So, this is a continuous exercise you have to make until you reach your goal. Sometimes, it might take some time, but this is where FAITH comes to play. The Scripture confirms that If you really resist the devil, he will flee from you.
(James 4:7)
... Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Our doctors would not identify the devil, but only the sickness the devil has placed in us.  So, they treat the problem, but not the cause of the problem. As a result, the devil takes turns and makes us sick over and over again until we go mad.

You know there are some Christians who never get sick. They are even worse than those Christians who get sick where God and the Word of God are concerned. So they are very inspired about their health. Thus, they might think that the devil does not attack them. Truly, the devil has already caused them to commit major sins in their life like fornication, adultery and idolatry.

Remember, the devil does not mind as long as we finally end up in hell. Therefore, the devil would not use the same weapon to attack us in order to fulfill his final objective.