When God does not answer your prayers, step back and wait. He is giving you an opportunity to trust Him in the midst of the uncertainty and ambiguity you may be feeling.

Dear Lord, I pray You would help me to have strong faith to believe You will do great things in response to my prayers. Your Word tells of the magnificent and miraculous things You have done for people, and I know You are the same today and in the future as You were in the past. I believe You can do magnificent and miraculous things in response to my prayers as well.

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When you pray, do you expect God to do something because you know what He is able to do? Or do you half expect to be disappointed because you doubt that God could do something so great for you? If you answered yes to the last question, ask God to give you a heart filled with faith and expectancy of the great things He will do in response to your prayers.

in the grocery store. Our obedience to God is evidence

Our faith must grow strong enough to believe for the impossible because we believe in the God of the impossible, and with Him all things are possible.

Take a chance on God. After all, He took a chance on you.

some things, like love, might be worth hoping for. That it was okay to long for it, even in the face of the impossible.

After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't, I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God's Son.

Many Christians claim to believe in Jesus, but only a minority can articulate good reasons for why their beliefs are true.

Our Heavenly Father is always near. … Thank God we can reach out and tap that unseen power, without which no man can do his best.

I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.