Comments on: What Happens to Our Unanswered Prayers? https://bahaiteachings.org/what-happens-unanswered-prayers/ Personal perspectives inspired by Baha'i teachings Thu, 16 Oct 2025 12:43:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 By: Charles Boyle https://bahaiteachings.org/what-happens-unanswered-prayers/#comment-44293 Fri, 23 Apr 2021 19:15:27 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=49198#comment-44293 No prayer goes unanswered except by our own hand – once you pray, you commit your heart, hand and mind to an issue, but you have to act, either to accept transformation, or be inspired to take action.

]]> By: Alan Dworak https://bahaiteachings.org/what-happens-unanswered-prayers/#comment-36025 Fri, 12 Jul 2019 05:46:45 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=49198#comment-36025 In reply to Rachel Tomberlin.

Hi Rachel! NDERF is an acronym for Near-Death Experience Research Foundation. Go to their website and browse the archives to find NDE 7428. I am not able to put links in the comment section. Cheers!

]]> By: Alan Dworak https://bahaiteachings.org/what-happens-unanswered-prayers/#comment-36023 Fri, 12 Jul 2019 05:42:05 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=49198#comment-36023 In reply to Daniel Cooper.

Thanks for the great response, Andrew. I looked up NDERF 7428 – Interesting!

]]> By: Rachel Tomberlin https://bahaiteachings.org/what-happens-unanswered-prayers/#comment-36020 Fri, 12 Jul 2019 04:38:34 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=49198#comment-36020 Alan: in your reply to Daniel Cooper’s comment you mentioned NDERF archives 7428. What does NDERF stand for and where would I look for that information? Thanks for your time and guidance. ~ Rachel

]]> By: Andrew Scott https://bahaiteachings.org/what-happens-unanswered-prayers/#comment-35996 Thu, 11 Jul 2019 20:40:29 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=49198#comment-35996 In reply to Daniel Cooper.

Dear Daniel, I agree with you about the purpose of prayer as a source of sustenance for our soul. Please also consider this. We cannot of ourselves ever know God, or what God can do. We are completely and utterly incapable of comprehending the reality of God. It is by definition beyond us. Further, the ‘world’ we experience is ‘like the shadow stretching out’: it is not reality, but a mere projection or exhalation. When the veil is lifted, then do we just begin to appreciate the additional ‘dimensions’ or ‘aspects’ of reality. Language is far too limiting. Please also search – as an example of one of many – for NDERF Archives 7428 to see how prayers may be ‘answered’ in ways we just could not expect.

]]> By: Daniel Cooper https://bahaiteachings.org/what-happens-unanswered-prayers/#comment-35986 Thu, 11 Jul 2019 18:29:54 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=49198#comment-35986 As a hard-core scientific type, I do not believe that God changes His laws to satisfy our whims and prayers. If we ask Him to do that, we are asking the wrong question. Prayer is offered to God and its purpose is to help us draw closer to Him. “Worship thou God in such wise that if thy worship lead thee to the fire, no alteration in thine adoration would be produced, and so likewise if thy recompense should be paradise. Thus and thus alone should be the worship which befitteth the one True God.” – The Bab

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