Benefit of Unanswered Prayers (Jesus Christ, ritual, reject, Moses, crucifixion)

[oracle_9i]

Some of such requests may be very fundamental to God's plan and purpose for man. Should He grant it, He might have to return to the drawing board. He may sometimes ignore such prayers because they are said in anguish and out of ignorance or foolishness. May the Lord ignore all your foolish requests in Jesus name. Our God is sovereign. He does what He likes and nobody can query Him. He reserves the right to reject prayers He considers inappropriate. In Numbers 11:16-17, Moses requested for death but God ignored the request. Also when Elijah asked for death at a most trying period, God fed him instead (1 Kings 19:5-8). He was given the first meal and finished it. He woke to take the second meal and licked the plate.
The one who desires to die would not eat to live further! At a very trying period, our Lord Jesus Christ asked God to take away the cup of suffering He was about to drink. In that cup was denial of justice, scourging, mockery, rejection by man and God, crucifixion and death. If God had answered that request, I would have ended in hell. The whole world would have retained their sin. God's salvation plan would have hit the rocks. The second Adam would have failed. Either a third Adam would have had to come or God would have discarded the idea of salvation. Many would have forever been lost. Thank God I Ic ignored that prayer! It would have cost us everything.
We should be very careful the prayer we say during moments of despair and intense sorrow. Such touch the soul and when said it easily comes to pass except God uses I lis sovereignty to wave it. Some of us have had to ask God to take us home when our loved ones departed. Thank God He ignored such requests. Some of us swore never to lead others again because of the unpleasant experience we went through; yet we arc still leading men because God ignored our request. Some of us had asked God to shelve His great plan for our lives just because we had no faith to continue or we saw the beautiful lands before Jordan and felt it was good enough. But today God has given us something better. Thank God for unanswered prayers. Some of us asked for a period of no more problem but God ignored it because it would have cost us our faith. Some of us have asked for God to kill all our enemies in one day but God ignored it. If he had answered yes, we would have remained spiritual fledglings all through life.