“Unanswered Prayer” | Charles Spurgeon Sermon | Why Are My Prayers Not Answered? | Psalm 22:2

“O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.” – Psalm 22:2 🔊 Charles Spurgeon Sermons – Playlist 📖    • Charles Spurgeon Sermons | Historic Homilies   🔊 D. L. Moody Sermons – Playlist    • D. L. Moody Sermons | Historic Homilies   🔊 Historic Homilies – All Uploads    • Historic Homilies | All Uploads   If you feel led to donate to the work of this channel, feel free to do so through Venmo: https://www.venmo.com/u/historichomilies “Unanswered Prayer,” a sermon by C. H. Spurgeon, delivered September 20, 1866. Read by: Joel Griffis Joel is a pastor at Grace Fellowship Church:    / @gracefellowshipchurch1948   https://www.gfcbaker.org Joel’s Other Channels: HeartStore Music – Bible memory songs    / @heartstore   JoelGriffis – Song performances, mostly covers, some originals    / @joelgriffis   Musings Under The Sun – Discussion/podcast channel, various topics    / @musingsunderthesun196   (On some occasions, certain words or phrases may be modernized or adapted to aid understanding.) From The Sermon: It is very clear to everyone who reads this Psalm that these are not so much the words of David as they are the words of David’s Son and David’s Lord, our blessed Master. He prayed with strong crying and tears. He came before His Father’s throne with supplications and for a long time it seemed as if He would have no answer. It did appear as if God had utterly forsaken Him, and that His enemies might persecute and take Him. Now, why was the Savior permitted to pass through so sad an experience? How was it that He, whose lightest word is prevailing with heaven, that He who pleads with divine authority this day in His continual intercession, was permitted, when here below, to cry, and cry, and cry again, and yet to receive no comforting answer? Was it not mainly for this reason, that He was making an atonement for us and He was not heard because we as sinners did not deserve to be heard? He was not heard, that we might be heard. The ear of God was closed against Him for a season, that it might never be closed against us, that forever the mourner’s cry might find a way to the heart of God, because the cry of Jesus was for a while shut out from mercy’s gate. He stood the surety for our sins and was numbered with the transgressors. Upon Him the Lord laid the iniquity of all His people and therefore, being the sinner’s representative, He could not, for a while be heard. There was also, no doubt, another reason, namely, that He might be a faithful High Priest having sympathy with His people in all their woes. As this not being heard in prayer, or being unanswered for a while, is one of the greatest troubles which can fall upon the Christian, and fall it does, the Savior had to pass through that trouble, too, that so it might be said of Him, “In every pang that rends the heart, The Man of Sorrows bore His part.” When I fear that I have not been heard in prayer, I can now look upon my Savior and say, “He takes me through no darker rooms Than He went through before.” He can now have a tender, touching sympathy with us, because He has been tempted in all points like as we are. Was it not also, once more in our Savior’s case, with a view to display the wondrous faith, fidelity, and trustfulness of the obedient Son of God? Having been found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to His Father’s will. Now, obedience is not perceived until it is tried, and faith is not known to be firm and strong until it is put to the test and exercised. Through what an ordeal did this pure gold pass! It was put into the crucible and thrust into the hottest coals, all glowing with a white heat, they were heaped upon Him, and yet no dross was found in 2 Unanswered Prayer Sermon Him. His faith never staggered. His confidence in His God never degenerated into suspicion and never turned aside into unbelief. It is, “My God! My God!” even when He is forsaken. It is, “My God and my strength” even when He is poured out like water and all His bones are out of joint. In this thing, He not only sympathizes with us, you see, but He sets us an example. We must overcome, as He did, through faith. “This is the victory which overcomes the world, even your faith.” And if we can copy this great High Priest of our profession, who endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself—if we can copy Him so as to be neither faint in our minds, nor turn from our Master’s work—we shall triumph even as He overcame. But my chief object in considering this theme is not so much to speak of the Savior’s trial, as to address myself to those of our number who may even now be passing through the same experience as our Lord. It will already comfort you to know that Christ has been where you are. . . .