Answered and unanswered prayer!! When you witness you always win!! At least you win the approval of God!

Answered and unanswered prayer!!

When you witness you always win!!

At least you win the approval of God!


Have you ever wondered why God sometimes answers prayer and sometimes He doesn't???

Of course the reasons that I am going to put here are nothing original from me.

I learn everything from teachers who have studied and know so much more than I do.

In Jesus' famous statement in Matthew Chapter 7 verse 7 and verse 8

[7] Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you. [8] For every one that asketh, receiveth: and he that seeketh, findeth: and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened. [


So there are apparently three kinds of people.. SEEKING

1. Those who have been seeking the Truth and have found it...

2. Those who are seeking the Truth and have not found it yet... they will soon move up into the 1st category...

3. Those who are not seeking the Truth and will never find it

4. Those who are not seeking the Truth and then find the Truth.... This last category does not exist...

THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT FACT and I will try and tell you why?

God only answers prayer when we are really serious about it... We have to always be seekers..

Let me give you an example..

20 years ago Irmgard and I met a Lady in Nurnberg railway station who quite amazingly gave us 2000 DM just out of the blue.

We really needed that cash at that time and it came at a very opportune moment.

Why is it that this kind of miracle does not happen every day??

Because those in Category 4 would be forced to believe without really seeking.

The 1st and 2nd categories would get lazy and expect a continual shower of always answered prayer and Faith would go out of the window.

Hebrews Ch 11 verse 6 says that without faith it is impossible to please God

I hope that was helpful.

Here is another example from yesterday.

We had witnessed all morning distributing our Home made Rosaries for a small donation.

Now there were hardly any body on the streets and I was contemplating packing up when a lady right out of the blue approached us and asked us for a Rosary and gave us a much needed small donation.

This was our cue to continue, remembering the quote... When you witness you always win...

For the next hour we did not do very well and then as we got desperately seeking, we started to do well again....Doing well or not financially is not the main point but in our work counselling people on the street we also need to make enough to live...

Today Irmgard never gave up and the very last person she talked to before getting in the car, gave her a much needed donation for a book by Frank Duff of the Legion of Mary.

I hope this was helpful... By the way I learned this from Peter Kreeth...I hope you listened to him...and to Tim Staples....