"If God is real, why doesn't he answer my prayer?" Many Christians respond, "He answers every prayer by saying, yes, no, or not now". However when James was asked this question he came out swinging.
" Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members? You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures. Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God?"(James 4:1-4).
Prayers focused on earthly values reflect earth bound hearts.
