11/09/2025
WHY GOD IS NOT ANSWERING YOUR PRAYERS QUICKLY – APOSTLE JOSHUA SELMAN
Nothing can take the place of consistency in prayer. Every night you wake up and pray for close to 2 hours. You don’t know what’s happening to you, but tomorrow you go there again, the next day you go there again. A day will come when you go as usual, and something will come upon your life that you will never recover from again.
There are people who pray, but what corrupts the potency of their prayer is their motive and understanding. So, as much as they engage in spiritual activities, the profit and purpose are corrupted. By their ignorance, they have downplayed what prayer should deliver. But when prayer is done well and properly, results happen.
The way believers grow is very defined. You are given the liberty to choose how you grow, but the parameters for a believer’s growth are already defined, and the tools made for that wholesome growth are also defined. One of the ways to grow is to explore the wonders of consistent prayer.
The first assignment of prayer is not to deliver results. You will be disappointed many times if what leads you to consistent prayer is the problem you want to solve. God can answer a prayer request somewhere in church, but when you submit yourself to prayer, the first thing is not results. The first thing that happens is delay. That prayer will begin to do something within you. The moment God sees that delay in answer is keeping you praying consistently, He will prolong it intentionally, and that’s the only way He can trap you.
God does not reason like men. Everything in the economy of God is with respect to His will and His program. If God sees that there is a situation in your life, He will use it, He’s not hurting you. Many of you allowed convenience to lead you into prayerlessness, so when God finds you in a situation where He can hold you, He will trap you. If not because of that rent, that medical report, or those loan issues, you never would have woken up b