Summary: <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/westside-christian-fellowship/id386117063">If you want to stay up on the latest audio messages from Westside Christian Fellowship, don’t forget to subscribe to this podcast on iTunes.</a><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="%22http://westsidechristianfellowship.org/WP/wp-content/uploads/Audio/5_21_2017_Prayers_Arent_Answered.mp3</a"><br><br> </a><a class="twitter-share-button" href="http://twitter.com/share">Tweet</a><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="%22http://westsidechristianfellowship.org/WP/wp-content/uploads/Audio/5_21_2017_Prayers_Arent_Answered.mp3</a"></a><br><br> Complete Sermon Notes<br> 10 Reasons Why Prayers Aren’t Answered<br> <br> Not in a hurry to get through an important issue – we are seeing spiritual battles unlike anything we’ve seen before.<br> <br> I’m using the word “delay” because I don’t believe that most of your prayers aren’t being answered – if you’re truly seeking God and following His principles – I believe that you’re experiencing delay vs. prayers being denied. <br class="m_7227900918891229838gmail-kix-line-break"><br class="m_7227900918891229838gmail-kix-line-break"><br> <br> ACTS 12:1 Now about that time [the time the church sent relief] Herod the king stretched out his hand to harass some from the church. 2 Then he killed James the brother of John with the sword. 3 And because he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to seize Peter also. Now it was during the Days of Unleavened Bread. 4 So when he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of soldiers to keep him, intending to bring him before the people after Passover.<br> <br> 1. Delay is Not Deny: Answers are often delayed.<br> <br> <br> Waiting is praying and praying is waiting, but we often quit before we really begin.<br> <br> <br> <br> We Underestimate the Waiting Time: Our mind assumes that Peter was in jail overnight.<br> DELAY STRENGTHENS FAITH –<br> <br> <br> Psalm 106:13, “They soon forgot His works; they did not wait for His counsel” – 1. Leanness of soul. 2. Entitlement 3. Worldliness 4. Complained 5. Provoked God.<br> <br> <br> <br> 2. Delay “CAN” Readjust Motives.<br> <br> <br> Waiting is listening – I want to “see” the answer, God wants me to listen.<br> <br> <br> “Not my will, but Your will” – please let us win.<br> <br> <br> I’m not a painter.<br> <br> <br> If you don’t know what to do, don’t do anything. What soldier rushes ahead?<br> <br class="m_7227900918891229838gmail-kix-line-break">5 Peter was therefore kept in prison, but constant prayer was offered to God for him by the church. 6 And when Herod was about to bring him out, that night Peter was sleeping, bound with two chains between two soldiers; and the guards before the door were keeping the prison. 7 Now behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the prison; and he struck Peter on the side and raised him up, saying, “Arise quickly!” And his chains fell off his hands. 8 Then the angel said to him, “Gird yourself and tie on your sandals”; and so he did. And he said to him, “Put on your garment and follow me.” 9 So he went out and followed him, and did not know that what was done by the angel was real, but thought he was seeing a vision. 10 When they were past the first and the second guard posts, they came to the iron gate that leads to the city, which opened to them of its own accord; and they went out and went down one street, and immediately the angel departed from him.<br class="m_7227900918891229838gmail-kix-line-break"><br class="m_7227900918891229838gmail-kix-line-break"><br> 3. Delay “CAN” Increases Boldness – Contend Don’t Quit – “Constant prayer”: Hebrews 11:1 (KJV) “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for,
