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Do you ever find yourself struggling over what you feel like is unanswered prayer? Most of us have gone through discouraging and perhaps puzzling episodes of unanswered prayer. Typically we begin the Christian life very optimistic about the possibilities of prayer; then we have some disappointing experiences with prayer and skepticism sets in. Few experiences pose a greater challenge to our faith. Maybe you had committed yourself to pray frequently and earnestly that God would do a certain thing for you, and because by what seemed to be unanswered prayer, you felt like He never answered it at all or either, He answered it in a way that you were not happy with. Maybe you even questioned as to if God even heard your prayer or not!

My own confidence or conviction that God answers prayer springs not only from biblical teaching but from personal experience as well. But it has taken…