Power in Prayer — George Verwer

Now how many people have their notebooks in we we like to see the notebooks handy because we're here to learn. How how easy it is to waste time in Christian conferences. You go you hear a challenge. You don't get any of it down and a couple of days later. You can't even remember what you heard.

You might say oh, that was a great message. God spoke to my heart. And I think of those words in James. That God doesn't want us to be hearers of the word only but doers. And without apology. We believe in the printed page.

The Importance of Christian Literature and Taking Notes

If you look behind you you see just a little mini Display not much room here. You go on the ship to loss. You can see a real literature display. But here you have a little mini display of a few books.

Quite a few on that table. Actually if all those went We probably consider it a mini revival. The average person does not understand how important the Word of God and Christian literature is in Christian work.

There's not even 5 of people in Britain who are believers. They're certainly not 5 to have a vision for Christian literature. Within o M. We don't even have more than 25 Because o M is many things.

That's just literature church planning leadership training. You know, you name it we're in it in terms of evangelism and discipleship training. And we're having difficulty maintaining the vision for literature within Operation mobilization then that sounds strange.

Now we just believe that the books God has given us here Are to go out and bless people and also there's a considerable display of free material and I've just brought some more. Some of that I'm going to mention more in the morning.

But I'd like to urge you to just think about getting certain books. You may not be able to get them now, but you can write the title down. That's why I wanted you to have your notebook. For example, I want to urge you to get this book about Turkey.

Hardly any Christian books ever written about Turkey. It's an easy to read book now. One of the first persons that ever came to Christ through o M's work in Turkey who's now with the Lord can on eras.

And it's called my big father. Turkey is one of the most unevangelized nations in the world. There are 40 million people a Recent survey show there only 100 Turks from the majority group which mainly all Muslims.

Only 100 going on for God in the nation. 40 million. And we believe God is going to appoint some of you as unofficial recruiters for the land of Turkey and that as a result of being here some of you are going to read this share it with others and Sign up to pray for the land of Turkey.

90 of the people we've sent into Turkey have not been able to stay 90 One was shot at the doorstep. Others have been imprisoned in blacklisted. There are no missionary visas for Turkey. But there are open doors.

And of course, there are hundreds of thousands of Turks in Europe mainly in Germany. That we're working with. And we're praying that our work among immigrants. That's not exclusively Muslims, but especially may greatly increase and that will include Turks.

I'd like to strongly recommend this book just published in the British edition. It may have been mentioned already. It's only published a few weeks ago healing for damaged emotions a book. That is so important in a work like OM because people come on OM when they are young.

They come on OM from all different backgrounds and they bring with them their problems. They don't leave them all. They bring with them their hurts. Some even come on OM because they're running away from something.

That's not unusual in the world in which we live. And we are trying to find a balance, you know I'm in terms of reaching in to people's lives in a counseling ministry discipleship training ministry. I Wouldn't be here if it wasn't for that ministry.

And Reaching out in evangelism and especially in a week like this. It's not easy to maintain this balance because by the sheer number of people We cannot do as much in terms of counseling and in-depth man-to-man Discipling in the light of all that we're trying to do some of it will be done but that's a book that helps us in that ministry and So many have been helped by this book on OM.

It's one of the it's the fastest-selling book. This publisher a very big publisher has ever printed. And there it is available at half the price of the old American edition. How many of you have ever read?

Dr. Lloyd-jones's book spiritual depression its cause and cure. Raise your hand. I Consider this the best book of this century and I've gone through 1 ,000 books in a survey before I made that decision the best overall book.

Nothing compared with the Word of God because the Word of God is in a complete separate category. That's the Word of God. These are sermons in print Based on the Word of God just like if you're making a tape of my message now and you you write it out.

And that's generally what Verwer books are because I can't write. They just take tapes and they edit them and then I try to correct them and add some quotations from Tozer, which is usually the best part of the book and Then these crazy publishers go ahead and print it and the amazing thing.

They they actually sell but Here is I believe the best overall Christian book of this century and if you get only one book I Would recommend this if that doesn't help you in your spiritual life. It'll take a year if I had to choose one year in Bible College and that book the decision would take me about 45 seconds.

Guess what? It would be. Would be the book. Fortunately, you're gonna have both. I had both. Why they didn't introduce me to this man's writings when I was in Bible College Is beyond my comprehension except that Many even jellyfish lack vision and understanding when it comes to books.

So I commend this to you. I would count it worth coming here. I could pass through here on the way to Ulster where I'm going just to tell you about that book a new book by a W Tozer published today interesting Lloyd Jones introduced Tozer to Britain and Then OM brought his books in and now most Christian leaders in Britain have read a W Tozer.

Books on Worship, Prayer, and Spiritual Warfare

Whatever happened to worship With a forward by Graham Kendrick a brilliant book on prayer because tonight we're talking about faith. We're talking about prayer. We're talking about the power of God. We're talking about how to keep all that in balance and Here's a book on the subject of intercession by an OMF missionary one of my favorite Societies should be everybody's favorite society OMF.

What a great work they have done. I Had the joy of having lunch in Singapore recently with James Hudson Taylor the third the great grandson of Hudson Taylor. I got renewed just looking at him and Praise God what it what a challenge?

Well, this is from that great mission born for battle 31 studies in the spiritual warfare. Now we brought a few little specials. This that whole table is all part of STL. That's the Literature arm of OM which by the way Really needs your prayers at this time as they're short of personnel especially people who've got wisdom in the area of computers.

And if you know anybody that can operate these little machines, I can't even Stand looking at them never been into screens myself. But if you've got a friend who knows Jesus and can operate computers We might have some challenge and you can always talk to David Barnes.

They're Smiling behind the book table and other STL people about that. So most of those books all belong STL, but I bought my I brought my little diesel table over here. These books I sell to get some diesel money.

You know, I don't have it's it's everybody for themselves trust in Jesus, you know. I don't expect less way to give me any money to get out of here. He's probably can't get any get out himself. He can set your table up over there less.

He's probably getting a kickback on the on the STL books, I mean a cut but I've set up a table with some verwer message cassettes. Because I want to get some more ministry to you rather than just these two messages.

I want to talk to you on some interesting subjects like relationships and communication and Experiencing God in the depth of your soul. And so I brought these tape albums. They're available at a special price.

Also, I brought a new book. That's almost unheard of in Britain. I always like to surprise people. With books, they've never heard of and I'm gonna give this book to less weight. Bet you've never seen it before.

Have you less look at that? I'm gonna give this to you as a gift. You know, there's a lot of extremism coming in Britain right now a lot of it from the states on the subject of prosperity. Health wealth.

Miracles, you know. What do they call a positive confession. You want a jaguar in the name of Jesus? There it is. It's yours name it claim it. Leap it lump it all the rest and a lot of beautiful people are are getting caught into these things especially in the States.

The man who wrote this book Charles Farah is a leader in the charismatic movement. So, you know, this is not somebody throwing stones against healing or against miracles. No way. He is a professor of theology at oral Roberts University.

So that tells us something. And he has written this book that exposes Extremes in the area of miracles and healing. It's called faith or presumption. Stories that have never been told dead people as a result of extreme teaching in this area.

One church in America 75 people dead. We need this book in Britain right now. And it's taken me a while to get a hold of an assembly of God minister in Malaysia gave me his copy. I didn't know it was in print and I've just got a hold of these this week from the pinnacle of the temple.

And I will tell you if you are not able to discern between faith and presumption. You're gonna get in trouble. Sooner or later, you're gonna get in trouble. This book isn't a total answer. But there's some really serious Thoughts on this important subject and I have brought that along because it's just last-minute.

Jesus Christ as the Only Way

Arrived and is not available in most places. Is there really only one way there's no tougher problem Than this, do you know people just absolutely ridicule ridicule what we are doing here this week to take the gospel to people of other religions is now being ridiculed up and down Britain and On television.

There's so many things that make anybody who believes that Jesus is the only way the truth in life. Looked like some kind of bigot out of the 18th century and I tell you we need a lot of wisdom in dealing with this.

Here's a book on the subject. Jesus is the only way. We're giving it half-price and it will help you with probably one of the most difficult theological issues you could ever get into. And I praise God Ridiculous a great missionary leader who wrote this book.

About Jesus Christ and the exclusiveness of Jesus Christ. We want to love these people we need. We want to talk to them. We want to esteem their culture. We don't even want to belittle their religion.

But we are committed to truth. And we are committed to Preaching Jesus Christ will not manipulate people. We believe all these different religions deserve their social rights they deserve. You know equality of citizenship if they're a British citizen or whatever and in fact, we are their friends.

That's why this is called friends from abroad. There are two sides to this ministry. You must understand. There is the side that represents the human factor. We want to love these people. We want to help these people.

We want to help them get a bed in the hospital if that's necessary. We want to help them if they're being treated unjustly. We want to help them if some policeman is pushing them around just because of their race or background.

We stand for justice. We are their friends. We will defend their right even to build a mosque. Especially when they will defend our right to build our churches in Saudi Arabia. We haven't got that sorted out yet but we are friends and There may be someone here who's a Muslim or a Hindu.

We are your friends at our leadership conference some kind of person a Muslim background came to me after I don't know. He was a Muslim or Christian from what he was saying. But I listened to him and we realize of course we need dialogue.

We need to listen to one another. We are learners but. The other side of the coin. We are Disciples of Jesus Christ and we must must as Paul said preach Christ and Christ crucified. We cannot be silent, even though socially it is getting more difficult.

Even though there's more and more intimidation coming against us, even though we know we have made mistakes. We are committed to preach and teach Jesus Christ. That brought Stephen to the end of his ministry very quickly.

It brought death to many people in the New Testament. But we are committed to this. And you know when I talk to my Muslim friends, I often apologize for the terrible things the church has done. I've done some extensive study on the Crusades.

Great blotch in Christendom and I explained that there's nothing worse Than the Church of Jesus Christ then when it gets away from Jesus Christ himself. Because it will have a name that is alive. But in fact, it's dead we have.

You know great shame in our hearts when we think of the Crusades and we think of all that's happened in the name of Christendom, that's why we need these both both aspects. And and what a joy it is to have friends from among these people.

And I tell you many of us involved in this kind of evangelism. We know that without both factors. There's something hollow in it. If you come here to this city and you go out in the streets and give out the gospel, but back in your own hometown you're not treating justly those who are friends from abroad and they're being discriminated against and All this kind of thing and you're not interested.

You don't take any time to open your home. You believe it would be evil evil if your daughter married one of these people and all this kind of thing, you know. There's something hollow About doing this kind of work.

And we don't have that side. Well, that's that's a separate message. I throw that in no extra charge. That wasn't even booked in advance. Less always writes me way in advance wants to know what I'm gonna speak on.

Interesting praise the Lord try to give him something vague in general so that I can speak on what I want when I come. What else do I have? I have a lot of magazine books every time you buy a book you can claim a magazine book free if you can find out where they are and This is one why revival tarry's a lot of people have paid a pound or two for that book.

I believe in music. I believe that music is one of God's methods to reach people for Christ and Often I find the average OM display they don't have music tapes. So I bring my own especially Keith green for all that reduced price.

God is using this man to touch hearts. I wish I could speak to you on a contextualized approach to reaching pagan English young people that's one of my Subjects. I haven't been speaking on too much. But just as we have to contextualize to reach Muslims and Hindus we have to contextualize to reach our own young people and I tell you many many Christians are very ineffective in reaching English young people.

And one of the things that's helped us reach young people in many countries is contemporary music. And it's something we've been doing for years. I wish we could do ten times more. But Keith Green was in that ministry.

His tapes are there. Lastly I wanted you to just mention the fact that if you miss these maps of the world and these prayer cards. You've missed one of the most helpful tools in prayer. You could ever get your hands on.

Are these available at a special price? I'm sure they are. No, you know these people at the book table don't don't accept the first price they give you this is This is Birmingham. This is Birmingham. You get them to reduce the price at least on this item.

Look at that the prayer cards are free for the map. That's way it's gonna cover that out of his pocket money. Praise God. I am so excited about books really, I'm almost tempted to just Just leave OM as it's got so big and complicated and just get involved in Christian books only.

But I don't have a confirmation from the Holy Spirit on that at this point. After reading through all the memos and correspondence that came in the post today. I Just thought you know, how did I ever get in this thing?

Just three of us went to Mexico we were just going to evangelize. This summer it'll be three thousand stretched out across 50 nations with two ships 1 ,600 long-term people a couple thousand others joining us at different times of the year.

And the amazing thing is all of our leaders want this coordinated. They all want, you know, absolute efficiency everything done, right? But we don't want any people or any money to be given to that. They want me to have just a little tiny team down in Bromley and a miracle bucket and a miracle desk.

You know any problem OM has we got hundreds of problems. Yeah hundreds. That I put on my desk in the name of Jesus be thou resolved. Don't spend any money we want all the money for Bibles and gospel tracts and for the front lines and I'll tell you we would appreciate your prayers that our little international coordinating team trying to hold all this together together with Zobentim and Peter Maiden and Carlisle and a few people committed to the overall task of leadership because we are we're under tremendous pressure and So many of our workers one-third of all OM people don't get proper support.

It is a nightmare. Then somebody comes along and says well God's work done in God's way never lacks God's supply. Well, if that's the case, then oh, I'm ought to quit because for 25 30 years We have always lacked.

We've never had what we needed to do the job. We felt God had put upon our hearts now. We've never suffered in terms of lacking food and clothing. That's a promise from God. Philippians though, I know some people who have different countries of the world.

So that's a bit of a mystery. But you know some of these things are not quite as simple as maybe we thought when we read our first first book on faith. The work of God around the world is suffering tonight and I can tell you as one who's ministered in 50 nations in 30 years.

Sure, God is blessing. God is answering prayer. He is faithful. There is no question about that whatsoever. But God has entrusted his work to his people and his people are not faithful and they are not generally concerned with world missions and They certainly are not giving very much money to world missions and there are many churches that haven't given a single missionary or sent a single missionary out in a decade and.

So when we think of the problems and the difficulties in the lack of money in the lack of manpower. It's not In any way saying anything against the faithfulness of our Almighty God, but it is something To be said about us and when I say the church, I mean us and I believe.

Unless there's greater revival and increased vision in the local church. The work will continue to be hindered on every side. I Conservative mission when it comes to this whole thing of money and very slow to talk much about money.

Just you know, not quite as bad as we were for 20 some years. We tried to out Mueller George Mueller. We tried to bypass Hudson Taylor. We developed the spirits conspiracy of Silence that could have stopped even a dinosaur on an attack.

But I'll tell you we have changed. And we are not going to be silent anymore even if we have to fold up OM to do it because personally I'd rather leave OM and give myself to the whole body of Christ and battle to see this job done.

With a whole body of Christ because our big vision is no M. It's the whole body. It's the local church. It's all these missionaries out on the field with all the struggles and the problems and the battles and the discouragements.

Trying to penetrate the Muslim world the Hindu world and in the midst of all the problems then they don't get their support and Many of them I'll tell you more than has ever been written up. Many of them get discouraged and quit.

Not only for that reason. Because Satan has a multiple attack to discourage people on the mission field and I would estimate even in OM and we're a fairly Dynamic movement we probably have 20 of our personnel now that are fairly discouraged fairly discouraged not Just for one reason.

Though the lack of finance and the struggles and the guilt connected with that. It's probably been the major reason for a lot of the struggles that we have. And so after I share from the Word of God about faith and prayer and the power of God.

And as we get into the prayer meeting we are gonna pray. For finance, we are gonna pray that finance will be released for the work of God for WEC for OMF for Unknown smaller groups and fellowships and for the work even here at home.

And we know Satan Is really putting the pressure on local fellowships. Very few fellowships in Britain have not gone through division. A Lot of people left their older fellowships and they figured get in new churches.

With this greater reality and greater Liberty greater power and that's going to get on and in OM. We're committed to the older and the younger and the newer committed to all the fellowships that love Jesus Christ and believe in his Word.

To varying degrees. We don't agree with everybody. But now many of these new fellowships, you know what's happening major divisions. It's the same thing history repeats itself how we've come to see. I believe we have come to see in Britain in the past years.

The need for more humility for more humility. The need for less judgmentalism about the other brother the other church. For less generalization about what's going to resolve our problems if you think.

Coming on a web going through this week is some kind of total answer to your spiritual struggles. You're in for a big surprise. Because the challenge is much bigger than that. It's a challenge of a lifetime obeying God following his word finding biblical balance exercising spiritual discernment.

Growing in wisdom and stature as the Lord Jesus did. And if Jesus had to grow in wisdom and stature. What about the rest of us? Therefore exercising restraint and patience and balance as we go forward to evangelize the world.

Running the Race With Faith and Biblical Balance

Let's now turn in our Bibles to that great passage. That I think you all know about in Hebrews Chapter 12. Hebrews chapter 12. You know, we had a tremendous leaders conference two weeks ago in Manchester.

I've been reading coming up here a number of letters. I will tell you God just Worked in that conference. How many of you were there. A number of you praise the Lord. Many many were filled with a spirit and got a new vision refilled with a spirit.

Began to experience something of God's deeper working in their life and. The letters I've had have been very very encouraging and we believe also this week. It's going to be a turning point for some of you and we believe God is going to Teach you something about faith.

And something about the power of God. In a balanced way. And as you probably have heard many times from OM We believe in total commitment with Balance if you prefer a different word total commitment with love.

You don't want to talk about balance. No problem. Just memorize and put into practice 1st Corinthians 13 and you'll never have to even mention the word balance. And in OM when we speak about balance, we're not talking about compromise.

We're not talking about one foot of the world one foot in the church. We're not talking about Surrendering your major doctrines. We're talking about sharpening the sword not making it more dull. We're talking about letting one strong biblical truth bring another biblical truth into the right perspective.

Did you get that? Letting one strong biblical truth bring another extra strong even extreme biblical truth into perspective into balance. Hebrews chapter 12. Wherefore Seeing we also are Surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses let us lay aside every weight and the sin which does so easily beset us and Let us run with patience the race that is set before us looking on to Jesus.

The author and finisher of our faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross. Despising the shame and the sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Now this Passage of Scripture comes after Hebrews 11.

Hebrews 11 is about faith. Verse 1 of Hebrews 11 now faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders received witness through faith. We understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God.

What an insight into physics. So that things which are seen Are not made of things which do appear. And then it talks about the faith of Abel in the faith of Enoch. Look at verse 6 for without faith It's impossible to please him for he that cometh to God must believe that he is and that he is a Rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

I get letters not many but every once in a while I get letters. People are worried that OM is changing. Praise God that OM is changing. Anything that's alive and that's growing and that's under the direction of the Holy Spirit will change.

Not departing from the basic biblical principles of God's Word. But sometimes in organization sometimes in focus. We're not having radical changes of policy in OM, but we are Fine-tuning certain things that we can demonstrate more reality more love more balance.

In those early days when OM exploded in Britain and 900 British young people came in one summer. Hardly even knowing what they were getting into. We often hear the good reports of those days. But there were many bad reports.

We made many mistakes. We were young. I myself was immature. I was on fire, but I was immature. I was extreme. That doesn't mean God wasn't using me and often when something is being born God uses extreme things.

But it seems that after that thing is born unless the person and unless the movement comes into balance. It goes into burnout and I've seen whole organizations go into burnout. I've seen many Christian leaders go into burnout.

Faith burnout leadership burnout. Extremism burnout. It's everywhere from Los Angeles to Honolulu to Alaska and the uttermost parts of India. Our burden isn't a discipleship for a week young people. Our burden isn't to get you excited for a couple of weeks and get your adrenaline pumping.

Our burden is that you get into God's race Hebrews 12 1 and 2 and that you run That race the rest of your life, that's why I allowed this title. I didn't choose this title no turning back on my latest book.

I wanted to call it the human factor because this book a follow-up on my other book hunger for reality that brought me 14 ,000 letters is a lot more down-to-earth. There's a lot more of her words failures in this book and there's such spicy little things in here about marriage and sex and failure and What to do when this goes wrong and that goes wrong and I've just been so encouraged now at the feedback I'm getting from this but I couldn't call it a human factor because Graham Greene pinched my title.

And I saw that in Smith's and had to change the title. But don't be turned off by the title. This is our burden. Our burden is to give you some of the truths that God has given us. For 20 25 or 30 years that you may run the race so that you can come back as an old middle-aged character like me.

And give your testimony. It's so great to be in these mid years. This is I'm in the midlife crisis. Praise God. I love crisis. Oh life's a crisis to me. Just preaching in the average churches all the long faces is a crisis for me, but it challenges me right out of my shoes.

You know when I was young, of course people expected me to explode any minute people used to even write me. I'm worried about you're you're gonna explode. You're gonna have a nervous breakdown. Slow down.

I've had more exhortations to take a vacation or a holiday than almost any other single exhortation. But you know all these years I haven't had this nervous breakdown the people are prophesying. I Haven't even gotten near it.

I'm not the type. I don't think it's because of some great Spirituality, I'm just probably not the type though. I have learned some of the secrets the rest of faith and Spiritual survival may touch on that a little in the morning.

My problem is causing other people to have nervous breakdowns this. This is my difficulty. This is why many years ago after seeing a few people have verbal related nervous breakdowns including almost my wife I Decided it was it was balance or bust.

I don't think I've ever said that before balance or bust. OM is changing to some degree In our understanding of faith and prayer and the power of God and rather than give you one of my old Ver word tapes on Messages on faith you can go get one of those tapes.

I want to share a few of the newer thoughts God has been giving us About faith about prayer about the power of God and and I hope that somehow You'll be able to incorporate this into some other things.

Faith Must Be Personal, Wise, and Persevering

God has been teaching you first of all faith is Exercised in different ways by different people. Whatever you do don't try to copy other great men of faith. You can learn something from it, but don't try to copy.

I Was reading something even this week by a great healer evangelist in America Who launched out in faith in a particular area and God greatly blessed? He was teaching this to other ministers many of them launched out in the same way and most of them failed.

This is where OM has done some harm in the past now, I've already taught on this Years ago, but but I didn't emphasize it enough because I didn't understand it enough. I've been speaking on balance and love almost from the beginning of OM and I've used this illustration before when I was a student and our big thing was praying praying in things.

We prayed in money. We prayed in soap. We prayed in wives. We prayed in vehicles we were prayer was you know, people thought of OM is mainly a movement of prayer and People would even exaggerate our lives of prayer and the miracles.

Also, we were known for not spending any money except for Gospels and and for the work of God if there was ever a group of Evangelical Scrooges launched in the 20th century. It was operation mobilization and I was chief Scrooge.

Some of the stories that people are think our myth are actually truth. It's a problem. But I never would buy any soap. I didn't believe in buying soap. Either but I was changing on that and so I would go into the shower and I would you know, name-and-claim it soap.

And usually I found some. Sometimes I had to scrape it off the floor. But I usually found some and one of the young disciples one of the young little Verwer disciples at Moody Bible Institute. You know if our leader Can trust God for soap, you know, I'm gonna get into this hope.

Releasing ministry, I never forget when that brother came to me. Having prayed with absolute sincerity having gone to the shower absolutely believing and Unable to find even a square millimeter of soap anywhere in the entire shower and we can laugh.

But you can you imagine how this kind of presumption and how this kind of fooling foolishness can penetrate a work. All in the name of faith all in the name of trusting God. Can you imagine when we took this kind of teaching out to India?

We thought we had found heaven when we got to India these Indian brothers were more willing to trust God for the ridiculous the impossible Than any of the people we'd ever met in Europe and I used to say some pretty interesting things.

Now we have 30 years of experience in India. 23 Brothers and sisters. God leads different people in different ways. Faith is not some little narrow thing. That you can just get a carbon copy of from somebody else.

And you can read the biographies and you can go to the Christian films and you can develop your Christian heroes. But you are still you and we need together with faith wisdom discernment humility. Ability to bounce back when we fail.

And a lot of other basic biblical principles. I'm here to testify with every inch in me that God has answered prayer. Again, and again over these 30 years. We have seen in supply finance. We saw him supply these two ships.

We saw saw him supply people when people Leaders said no one is going to join this work. We have seen him do miracles. We have seen people here. We have seen tens of thousands of people come to Christ.

We have seen probably a hundred or two hundred different missions born in answer to prayer out of OM that are now separate operations. I could keep you here all evening many many people have asked many publishers have asked Oh him to write a book about all these great answers to prayer.

But I said, you know, we already have so many books on answers to prayer. Maybe I'll write a different book. Because brothers and sisters I'm here to testify just to bring this into balance. I Believe that I must be committed to honesty and Honesty causes me to say to you that many of my prayers have not been answered.

Now, maybe you can't handle that. Maybe you have to go look for a simple answer to that. Maybe you want to change the vocabulary. I'm not saying God is not listening. I'm not saying God is not faithful.

But I am saying simply that many of my prayers have not been answered now some of them. I'm glad they weren't. But my prayers concerning Afghanistan Turkey Iraq Sudan. I could give you a list of a thousand different prayers many of which I have now prayed for Regularly for 28 years have not yet been answered.