One of the reasons people turn away from faith in God is what they perceive to be unanswered prayer. We have examined this and other obstacles to faith in our book Tech-Pecked or Tuned In: Finding God in a Digital World. But here is what Oswald Chambers has to say about our prayers. It moved me. Perhaps it will move you too.
“Look back and think of the prayers you thought had not been answered but now find that God has answered with a bigger manifestation than you ever dreamed. God has trusted you in the most intimate way He could trust you, with absolute silence, not of despair but of pleasure, because He saw you could stand a much bigger revelation than you had at the time...
Jesus stayed where He was—a positive staying, because He loved Martha and Mary. Did they get Lazarus back? The got infinitely more; they got to know the greatest truth mortal beings can ever know—that Jesus Christ is the Resurrection and the Life.
It will be a wonderful moment when we stand before God and find that the prayers we clamored for in early days and imagined were never answered, have been answered in the most amazing way, and that God’s silence has been the sign of the answer.” Oswald Chambers
If you find you (or someone you love) are dealing with objections to faith in God like this one, and you would like more clarity for dealing with these obstacles, you can find that in the pages of Tech-Pecked or Tuned In: Finding God in a Digital World.
https://www.amazon.com/Tech-Pecked-Tuned-Finding-Digital-World/dp/1589303148/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Linda+Newton&qid=1576278488&s=books&sr=1-1