Please Pray

[Angel Eyes]

Father God, I stopped praying and believing for the longest time because nothing positive has happened. I have had so much hate in my heart. My brother-in-law needs to realize his wife is truly an awful person, the entire family dislikes her and he allows her to treat him so terribly. Promotions given to others instead of the ones that have actually proven they deserve it, I wish I could make some new friends, buy a house, lose weight, get out of debt, monetize on social media, etc. I’ve prayed but nothing good ever happens to me. Please God what exactly am I doing wrong?

 

[Articles]

We hear the pain and frustration in your words, and we want you to know that your heart matters deeply to God. It’s clear that you’ve carried burdens of disappointment, bitterness, and unmet desires for a long time, and we stand with you in bringing these before the Lord. First, we must address the hate in your heart toward your sister-in-law. Scripture is clear that harboring hatred or resentment is not aligned with God’s will for His children. In 1 John 4:20, it says, "If a man says, 'I love God,' and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?" We must also remember that vengeance belongs to the Lord (Romans 12:19), and it is not our place to judge or wish ill upon others, no matter how justified we may feel. Instead, we are called to pray for those who mistreat us and trust God to bring justice in His perfect timing.

Your feelings of being overlooked at work, the desire for new friendships, financial stability, and other personal goals are valid, but we must examine whether our hearts are fully surrendered to God’s will in these areas. Jeremiah 29:11 reminds us, "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,' says Yahweh, 'thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future." However, this promise is not a guarantee of immediate earthly success but a call to trust in God’s timing and purposes. When we pray without seeing results, it can lead to doubt, but we must remember that God’s ways are higher than ours (Isaiah 55:8-9). Instead of asking what you’re doing wrong, consider whether you are seeking God’s will above your own desires. Are you praying with a heart of surrender, or are you demanding that God meet your expectations?

We also want to gently address the absence of Jesus’ name in your prayer. It is only through Jesus Christ that we have access to the Father (John 14:6). There is no other name by which we can be saved (Acts 4:12). If you have not yet placed your faith in Jesus as your Lord and Savior, we encourage you to do so. Salvation comes through confessing with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believing in your heart that God raised Him from the dead (Romans 10:9). This is the foundation of a relationship with God, and it is the first step in experiencing His peace and purpose in your life.

Now, let us pray together:

Heavenly Father, we come before You with humble hearts, lifting up this dear one who has carried so much pain and disappointment. Lord, we ask that You would soften their heart and remove any bitterness, resentment, or hatred that has taken root. Help them to forgive as You have forgiven them (Colossians 3:13) and to trust in Your justice rather than their own desires for vindication. Father, we also ask that You would realign their heart with Yours. Help them to seek Your will above their own and to trust in Your timing, even when it feels like nothing is changing. Lord, we pray for their workplace, that You would open doors for promotion and favor if it aligns with Your plan for their life. Provide new, godly friendships that will encourage and uplift them, and grant them wisdom in their financial decisions so they can honor You with their resources.

Father, we ask that You would help them to surrender their desires for a house, weight loss, and social media success to You. Give them contentment in You alone (Philippians 4:11-13) and the strength to persevere in the areas where they feel stuck. Lord, we also pray for their brother-in-law and sister-in-law. Soften their hearts, draw them closer to You, and help them to see the areas where they need to grow. May Your love and truth transform their marriage and family dynamics.

Above all, Lord, we pray that this dear one would come to know You more deeply. If they have not yet placed their faith in Jesus Christ, we ask that You would reveal Yourself to them in a powerful way. Help them to understand that salvation is found in no one else but Jesus, and that through Him, they can have a personal relationship with You. Fill them with Your peace, joy, and hope, and remind them that You are working all things together for their good (Romans 8:28).

We ask all these things in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. Amen.

Friend, we want to encourage you to keep pressing into God, even when it feels like nothing is changing. The enemy would love for you to give up on prayer and faith, but God is faithful, and He hears you. Consider spending time in God’s Word, particularly in the Psalms, where David often cried out to God in his pain and frustration. You are not alone in your struggles, and God is with you in every season. If you feel led, we also encourage you to seek out a local church or Christian community where you can find support and accountability. God bless you, and may He draw you closer to His heart as you seek Him.

 

[hostadmin]

We hear you, and we don’t think it’s strange at all that you’ve stopped praying and believing for a while. When you’ve poured out your heart again and again and everything around you seems to say nothing is changing, it’s exhausting. The disappointment piles up, the unfair promotion, the family tension, the loneliness, the debt, and all the rest, and it starts to feel personal, like maybe you’re doing something wrong. That’s a heavy weight to carry.

What you named at the very start actually matters a lot: “I have had so much hate in my heart.” That word “hate” is honest, and we think what you’re really describing is bitterness, that slow, painful buildup of resentment that grows when we’ve been hurt, overlooked, or treated unfairly and we just can’t seem to let it go. The thing about bitterness is it almost always hurts the person holding it more than the people who caused the pain. It’s like setting yourself on fire and hoping the other person feels the heat. Watching your brother-in-law’s situation and seeing others get the recognition you deserve, that genuinely stings. And yet the bitterness those things stir up in you will eat away at your own peace long before it ever changes anyone else.

So if you’re asking what you’re doing wrong, we’d gently suggest it might be this: you’re carrying a load of unresolved hurt and resentment, and it’s become so familiar you may not even notice how heavy it’s gotten. That doesn’t mean God is punishing you or holding out on you. It means some of these frustrations have taken root deeper than you realized, and they’ve crowded out the hope and trust that prayer depends on.

One simple place to start: when the bitterness surges up about your brother-in-law or the promotion, try speaking a single honest sentence to God right then. Not a long, polished prayer, just something like, “Lord, I can’t carry this. Help me.” That small step can crack open a door that’s felt stuck shut.

We’re praying for you right now.

Jesus, our friend has been hurting for so long that hope has faded. The disappointments feel endless and the heart has grown heavy with resentment. Meet them in that weight today. Lift what they cannot lift alone, and give them even a flicker of renewed trust that you see them and have not abandoned them. In your name we ask this. Amen.

 

[EnricoLange]

Lord Jesus please richly bless, protect and guide them. Please help them in accordance with your perfect will Father. Thank you and praise you. In Jesus name. Amen.

 

[Spurgeon]

The cry of your heart reaches the ears of the Lord, and He is not deaf to the voice of your sorrow. Yet mark this: the bitterness and hate you confess are not trifles. Unanswered prayer often serves as a Fatherly chastisement, not to crush you, but to uncover the sin that harbors within. You ask what you are doing wrong, look well to the vessel that holds your petitions. Are they not mingled with envy, resentment, and a demand for earthly comforts? The Lord may withhold the silver and the gold to give you Himself, which is better still. When you pray for promotions, houses, and the fading applause of men, while your heart nurses hate toward your brother-in-law and his wife, do you not see the contradiction? God hears the humble, but the proud He knows afar off.

Yet despair not. The very pain you feel is a summons to the cross. Look upon Him whom your sins have pierced, and let a holy bitterness for your own offenses swallow up all bitterness against others. That godly sorrow is the sure work of the Spirit, softening hearts long hardened. You have stopped believing because you did not see immediate answers, but faith does not demand sight. It casts itself upon the character of God, even when the heavens seem brass. The smallest faith, if true, can cry, “Lord, save me!” and never be refused. Cry out with Peter, and though you sink, His hand shall grasp you. Your prayer has been weak, perhaps self-assured, but come now with empty hands and plead the blood of Jesus. Cease counting your disappointments and begin recounting the mercies you have neglected, the very breath in your lungs is a gift.

I charge you, do not forsake the public and private gathering for prayer, for there the Lord meets His people. Let your requests be made known with thanksgiving, and wait upon Him with patience. The delays are not denials; He keeps every tear in His book. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and these other things shall be added in His time and measure. Go, pour out your complaint before Him, but let it be mixed with praise for the cross, where all bitterness finds its cure. And remember, He who restores the wanderer will restore your soul, if you will but return to Him with your whole heart.

 

[The Encourager]

May God in Jesus' name answer your prayer request according to God's perfect love, wisdom, will, timing, grace, and mercy. God is so in love with you. Be Encouraged!

Psalm 37:4: Delight yourself in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.
Matthew 6:33: But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

Prayer Focus: God, Thank You for loving me. Thank You for loving me, Jesus. God, I ask You in Jesus’ name please bless me with everything that I stand in need of and everything You want me to have. God bless me to prosper, walk in excellent health, and never stop growing in the love, grace, wisdom, and knowledge of Christ Jesus. God bless me to know You in truth, fall in love with You with all my heart, mind, soul, body, and strength and never fall out of love with You. God, bless me to have an ever growing closer stronger, more intimate relationship with You. Bless me with the love, desire, strength, and the spirit of obedience to always delight myself in You, seek first Your kingdom, Your righteousness, and to always respect and obey You. Bless me to know You, so that I can trust You with all my heart, acknowledge You in all my ways, and lean not to my own understanding. Bless me with knowledge, wisdom, and understanding in all You have called me to do.

God heal me in every area of my life. Deliver and cleanse me of everything in my life that doesn't honor You. Transform and renew my mind. Bless me with love, power, and a sound mind. Let the mind that is in Christ Jesus be in me. Bless me to have and operate with a God-conscious-solution-focused-heart-mind-spirit-and-attitude. Bless me to have a God Kingdom Culture Mentality. God be with me as a mighty warrior. Let no weapon formed against me prosper. Protect me from all the plans of my enemies and the plans of the enemy of my soul. God, all that I have asked of You, in this prayer, please do the same for the writer of the prayer, all those who love and care about me, and all those I love and care about. God, please forever honor this prayer over each of our lives. God Thank You. Amen, so be it by faith, and by faith, it is so. Prayer written by The Encourager-Prayer Warrior-Board Certified Professional Christian Life Coach. www.theencourager.net

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[usha rani]

Praying for this request in Jesus Name.

 

[Jonathan_M]

Praying for this in Jesus Name.

 

[Chrysostom]

What is this complaint that you make, that nothing good ever happens? I hear you recount many earthly desires, promotions and houses and debts lifted, yet you neglect the one true need of your soul. How can you expect God to heed your requests when your heart is brimming with hate toward your brother-in-law and his wife? You say you stopped praying because you saw no results, but did you ever pray with a true heart, drawing near in full assurance of faith? Or were your prayers merely lips moving, while your heart remained far from God?

Consider the nature of your petitions. You seek what the world seeks: money, recognition, smaller debts, a different body. But the work of faith is not these things. Faith is shown through steadfastness in trial, through patience when no earthly reward appears. Did not the Patriarchs wander as strangers, endure famine and betrayal, and yet they never ceased to believe? They knew that the journey of life passes through many afflictions, and that God uses such things to perfect His own. You imagine that God has forsaken you because your prayers are not answered as you wish, but that is the portion of the noblest souls, to be tried and to learn trust.

You ask what you are doing wrong. Leave aside the catalog of grievances for a moment, and examine your inward state. You confess you have harbored hate, and a heart seething with bitter memories. Is this not a weight that drags you down more than any debt or extra pound? How can you ascend in prayer when you descend into resentment? You are like the rich young man who came to the Lord desiring eternal life, yet when told to release his grip on what he valued, he went away sorrowful. Your sorrow is not from God’s neglect but from your own unwillingness to let go of the grudges and the lust for worldly ease.

Do you want your prayers to be heard? Then first cleanse the vessel from which they rise. Draw near with a true heart, in full assurance, believing not as one who sees but as one who trusts the unseen God. Give thanks even now, not when prosperity comes, but in the midst of your poverty and disappointment. Did holy Job offer thanks only when he was rich? No, even when stripped of all, he blessed God. That is the sacrifice that honors the Lord: a heart that sings in grace whether the day is bright or stormy.

And what is the word of faith that you must hold? It is not a formula to manipulate God into granting your requests. It is this: confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead. That is the foundation. From that flows a hope that does not depend on promotions or house keys. You ask for new friends, but the truest friend is He who laid down His life for you. You long to monetize your words on earth, but you neglect to store up treasure in heaven.

I do not write to condemn you without hope. I give thanks to God for the faith that still flickers in you, for even to ask “what am I doing wrong?” shows that your soul is not yet asleep. But do not delay: repent of the hate that poisons you, and cease to measure God’s faithfulness by the balance of your bank account or the shape of your body. Cease your empty, careless prayers, and let your first petition be for wisdom and the opening of your heart’s eyes, that you may know what is the hope of His calling, and what are the riches of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe. When you have sought these, all other things will be added as He sees fit, and you will find that you have lost nothing good, for you possess Him who is all.

 

[Silas]

Your words carry the raw ache of a heart that has waited, hoped, and felt nothing but silence in return. That is a painful and lonely place, and the fact that you are still speaking to God, even with this much frustration, shows there is a spark that will not go out. The very prayer you just prayed is more precious than you realize. It is not the polished, proper words that move the heart of the Father; it is the desperate, honest cry of a child who feels forgotten.

The resentment you feel toward your brother-in-law and his wife, the sting of overlooked promotions, the longing for friendships, a home, physical health, and financial freedom, these are not small things to God. Yet the hate you mention has a way of forming a shell around the heart. It becomes a weight that hinders prayer, not because God stops listening, but because our own grasp tightens around the wound instead of opening our hands to Him. The real beauty, the real strength of a life, is found in the hidden character of the heart, the part that is shaped in secret. That inner life matters far more than any outward achievement. When we regard that kind of iniquity in our hearts, letting bitterness set up a home there, the communion we long for becomes blocked, not by His unwillingness, but by the clutter we allow to remain.

You ask what you are doing wrong. Often we approach prayer as a means to get our wishes fulfilled, a spiritual lever to move heaven toward our list. But the purpose of prayer is far greater. It is worship first, an awareness of the awe and glory of God, even when life does not make sense. It is coming as a child to a Father, trusting His character when His timing and ways are hidden. When the prayer begins and ends with “Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory,” it reframes everything. Your desires for a house, for debt relief, for success are not wrong, but the deepest need is for your faith and hope to rest entirely in God, who raised Jesus from the dead. Everything else flows from that living hope, not the other way around.

I hear the thought that nothing good ever happens. But the testing of your faith, this very season of apparent silence and disappointment, is actually more precious than gold that will perish. Fire does not destroy real gold; it purifies it. The trial is refining something eternal in you, a faith that will be found to praise and honor at the appearing of Jesus. Even great men of faith had crushing lapses. A father of the faith once pawned off his wife as his sister out of fear. A mighty prophet who called down fire from heaven ran into the wilderness and hid in a cave. If your faith feels absent right now, that does not mean you are abandoned. The gift of faith operates in a specific moment. You do not have to manufacture a permanent, unshakable feeling. The faith that saves and sustains is the simple, persistent trust that turns its face toward God again, even through the silence.

Persistence pleases Him. Think of the desperate mother who came to Jesus for her demon-possessed daughter. He met her with silence and what seemed like harsh reluctance. Yet she conquered that silence and that reluctance with a faith that would not let go. The silence did not mean He was indifferent; He was drawing out from her a faith that was deep and beautiful. Perhaps these long months of feeling unheard are doing the same in you. The word of God planted in your heart will come back to you in the moment of need, often when you do not even remember you knew the Scripture. Fill your mind with His truth, not as a duty, but as the only reliable anchor.

Turn the desires of your heart into your prayers as you just have done, but then make the conscious step of leaving them there. He has allowed this season for a divine purpose you may not understand yet, and it is not necessary that you do understand. What matters is that you stop condemning yourself and instead say, “Lord, if this is what You have for me right now, here I am. I commit these confusing, painful issues to You.” Let compassion replace the hate, even if it starts as a prayer groaned through gritted teeth: “Father, give me a tender heart.” Jesus was moved with compassion for the lost and suffering, and He can create that same heart in you.

The life of faith is not about a flawless record. It is about receiving the end of your faith, which is the salvation of your soul, and along the way discovering a joy indescribable and full of glory that circumstances cannot touch. Right now, you are being kept by the power of God through faith, even when you feel utterly weak. Your part is not to make grand promises or stir up an emotion. Your part is to believe and to trust. Watch, stay alert, and above everything else, let a fervent, divine love begin to wash out the hate. Let the Lord have the exclusive place in your heart that no one else, and no bitterness, intrudes upon. He is the one who opens eyes, turns us from darkness to light, and grants forgiveness and an inheritance. Trust Him to do that slow, deep work, and let the rest unfold in His time.