5 Reasons Why God Isn't Answering Your Prayers

• Cindi McMenaminAuthor
• 201616 Nov
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Do you ever feel like God isn’t answering your prayers? 

I heard from someone last week who asked “How long am I supposed to pray if God continues to ignore me?”

It might feel like God is ignoring you when He doesn’t answer your prayers the way you’re hoping. But Scripture offers us insights as to why God might appear to be silent. One verse that I’ve found most helpful in my own life – when it comes to unanswered prayer – is Psalm 84:11, in which the Psalmist said “No good thing will [God] withhold from those who walk uprightly.” I find three principles (and loads of encouragement) in this verse for why God might not be answering my prayer or yours.  

1. God’s idea of a “good thing” might be different than yours.

10 Morning Prayers to Use Daily

• Compiled & Edited by Crosswalk Editorial Staff
• 201514 Oct
• COMMENTS69

A morning prayer is a wonderful way to focus your time and attention on seeking God's plan for the day ahead. Whether you need encouragement, peace, strength, or rest, God can meet you in a very real and present way when you come before Him with a humble heart. Seek God's presence each morning before your energy and attention is pulled by all the tasks you have ahead.

Here are 10 helpful morning prayers to start your day:

This is where fat actually goes when you lose weight

Photo credit: Victoria's Secret Sport

From Harper's BAZAAR

If you think about it, losing weight is a strange concept. One minute you're carrying the extra pounds, but after a stint of healthy eating and regular exercise, you're physically smaller. So where does all the fat go?

"The correct answer is that most of the mass is breathed out as carbon dioxide. It goes into thin air," physicist Ruben Meerman, MD told POPSUGAR. So, essentially, you breathe out fat. 

Apparently, it's a rough 80/20 split between fat predominantly being expelled from your body via your lungs, with the remainder being evacuated via your urine, faeces, sweat, and tears.

If you thought that fat was converted into muscle or energy, then you aren't the only one. According to the head of the UNSW School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Professor Andrew Brown, there are plenty of doctors and dietitians who were convinced fat was converted into muscle, or that it turned into either energy or heat and was 'burnt' in that way.

Sadly, if you're now thinking that instead of your next gym workout you'll just cry buckets while furiously breathing, you'll be disappointed. Fat has to go through a metabolic process before it's actually lost - but, having said that, there are plenty of ways to boost your metabolism, and that will speed up your rate of fat loss.

How to use your smartphone without leaving a trace

  David Nield

Every time you grab your phone to participate in a group chat, watch a YouTube video, or search the internet, you leave a digital trail of activity. This footprint can compromise your privacy the next time a friend borrows your device. It also puts your personal information at risk should your phone fall into really unscrupulous hands.
.In this guide, we'll explain how you can prevent your device from logging and storing data where other people can easily stumble across it. We will focus on cleaning up your phone's local storage, as opposed to limiting the information that apps send to the cloud.

Go incognito

Bank details for sale on Google: Hackers are offering full ID including your phone number and PIN for £4....

Fraudsters are selling credit card and bank details were stolen from British consumers on hundreds of open forums accessed through Google searches.

The internet giant stands accused of fuelling the ‘prolific’ trade in private financial information.

Marketing themselves with online adverts, hackers around the globe offer stolen ID details for as little as £4, with discounts for bulk buyers.

To lure punters, the criminals openly publish online thousands of ‘freebies’ giving information about select UK-based victims.

Alzheimer’s symptoms are anything but normal — here’s what you need to know

Elena Sheppard

Wellness Editor

July 9, 2018

Right now, there are an estimated 5.7 million Americans living with Alzheimer’s disease. As America’s population ages, that number is predicted to be 14 million by the year 2050. The Alzheimer’s Association states on its website, “Today, someone in the United States develops Alzheimer’s every 65 seconds. By mid-century, someone in the United States will develop the disease every 33 seconds.”

Alzheimer’s is a progressive brain disease that causes problems with memory, thinking, and behavior and is the most common type of dementia. As for dementia, that is the term used for a decline of cognitive skills severe enough to interfere with daily life. Alzheimer’s falls under that umbrella.

While research is still being done to understand exactly how to treat these diseases, the first step is understanding what is happening biologically that causes them in the first place. Billions of cells in the brain regulate everything we do, from language to movement. Nerve cells, or neurons, send signals as electrical charges that cause a release of chemicals, called neurotransmitters, which work by jumping the gap between neurons and carrying the signals within them.

With Alzheimer’s, a buildup of proteins in and around the brain’s neurons disrupts the movement of signals and neurotransmitter activity, leading to nerve cell death and brain tissue loss. As a result, the brain shrinks dramatically, which affects all its functions.

“There’s lots of research going on across this country to develop more effective treatments for Alzheimer’s,” says Anafidelia Tavares, MD, director of programs at the New York City chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association. “We also have increased advocacy at the federal level for research dollars. Researchers need people to participate in their studies as clinical subjects. And that’s why at the association, we’ve created TrialMatch, which links healthy volunteers and people with the disease to researchers who are working on a cure and more effective treatments.” 

While the majority of those diagnosed with Alzheimer’s are 65 and older, there are approximately 200,000 people under the age of 65 with younger-onset Alzheimer’s.

Occasional memory problems are a normal part of aging, but the symptoms of Alzheimer’s are anything but normal. Telling the difference can be difficult. The Alzheimer’s Association’s 10 warning signs are a good place to start.

1. Memory loss that disrupts daily life
2. Challenges in planning or solving problems
3. Difficultly completing familiar tasks at home, at work, or at leisure
4. Confusion with time or place
5. Trouble understanding visual images and spatial relationships
6. New problems with words in speaking or writing
7. Misplacing things and losing the ability to retrace steps
8. Decreased or poor judgment
9. Withdrawal from work or social activities
10. Changes in mood and personality

Duchess of Sussex 'is struggling to cope and not answering my calls' says father

Thomas Markle has said his daughter Meghan is struggling to cope with the burdens of royalty, and refuses to take his calls.

He said he is worried the Duchess of Sussex is hiding the pressure of her new life behind a “pained” smile as she adjusts to her “prim” duties as wife of the fifth-in-line to the Throne.

But he revealed she has not been in touch since a phone call after the Royal Wedding while he was recovering from the heart operation which caused him to miss her big day.

He told the Sun on Sunday: “My thing about my daughter right now is that I think she is terrified.

“I see it in her eyes, I see it in her face and I see it in her smile. I’ve seen her smile for years. I know her smile. I don’t like the one I’m seeing now.”

Thomas Markle, pictured here on Good Morning Britain in June, said his daughter had stopped taking his callsCredit: REUTERS/REUTERS

He said that while her expression might be due to a “bad couple of days” it worried him, and led him to conclude she was under “too much pressure”.

Adding that he could “die soon”, he said he wishes they would reconcile so he could tell her how proud he was - but she no longer answers her phone to him and staff at Kensington Palace will not return his texts.

Mr Markle said: “I had a heart attack, doesn’t anybody care? I could actually die soon. Does she want this to be the last thing we’ve said to each other?”

He said they pair had never gone so long without speaking, and that he wanted to clear the air and tell her how proud he is.

Speaking from his seaside home in Rosarito in Mexico, the retired lighting director, 73, also offered an apology, saying: “If I had one message for her it would be that I’m sorry for anything that went wrong. I’d like to put our differences behind us and get together. I miss you very much.”

Watch: Meet the Markles

In early May Thomas Markle caused headlines around the world when it emerged he had colluded with a photographer to sell staged ‘paparazzi’ shots of his wedding preparations.

After the scandal broke, Meghan is understood to have forgiven her father and his invitation to the Windsor ceremony was not withdrawn.

But he developed chest pains on the day he was due to be driven to the airport and went instead to Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center, ten miles over the US border,  where surgeons installed stents to open his clogged arteries.

Meghan's father watched the ceremony from his hospital bed Credit: Dominic Lipinski/PA

After watching the Prince of Wales walk his daughter down the aisle on television from his California hospital bed, he texted Meghan to tell her she looked beautiful.

They discussed the wedding and he wished the couple a happy honeymoon.

“That was the last call,” he told the newspaper.

"The phone number I had been calling Meghan on is no longer picking up, and I don’t have an address for her.

"I can send something to the palace, but there is no guarantee it would get to her.

“I sent a text to my palace contact saying I would like to reach my daughter and got no reply.”

Markle, who was reported paid £7,500 for a tell-all June interview with Good Morning Britain, said he wanted a father-daughter relationship, adding: “I took care of my mother the last five years of her life.

"My daughter said to me she would take care of me in my declining years. I’m not talking about money — I’m talking about taking care of me.”

On Saturday the Duchess of Sussex drew admiring glances at Wimbledon when she watched the ladies; singles final from the Royal Box with her sister-in-law, the Duchess of Cambridge.