In His teaching about prayer our Lord never once referred to unanswered prayer. He said God always answers prayer. If our prayers are in the name of Jesus or in accord with His nature, the answers will not be in accord with our nature but with His. We are apt to forget this and to say, without thinking, that God does not always answer prayer. He does every time, and when we are in close communion with Him we realize that we have not been misled. “Ask, and it will be given to you” (Luke 11:9).
