If you are frequently frustrated by the results of your prayers, I encourage you to consider the possibility that you are praying to persuade God to take on your position rather than praying that you might take on His. I've had plenty of failures in prayer, but I can't think of a single instance of failure occurring when I knew God's position and I prayed in agreement with His position.
If God doesn't seem to answer your prayers on any kind of a consistent basis, it's very important for you to consider the possibility that you aren't in agreement with God. Otherwise, you risk giving up on faith.
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1 NKJV)
The substance of your hope is your faith in God. Hope is the great motivator. Hope is like the sunshine and the water on a growing plant. Remove the sunshine and the water and the plant will not only quit growing, but will eventually die.
“Hope deferred makes the heart sick, But when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.” (Proverbs 13:12 NKJV)
As human beings, we cannot stand too many failures of hope before we start to get weak and begin to wither away. In other words, we can't just keep asking God over and over again to help us without seeing some results. Without seeing any results, we will eventually just quit asking.
But we will not see any results as long as we are asking from our position instead of His.
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