More Reasons Why God Doesn't Answer Prayer

Pete Greig gives more reasons why he believes that God doesn't answer prayer in chapter 8 of his book, God on Mute.

6. God's Best: Some prayers aren't answered because God has got something even better for us.
7. Motive: Some prayers (even spiritual-sounding ones) aren't answered because they are, in fact, selfishly motivated.
8. Relationship: Some prayers aren't answered because God Himself is a greater answer than the thing we are asking for and He wants to use our sense of need to draw us into a deeper relationship with Himself.
9. Free Will: Some prayers aren't answered because God will not force a person to do something that he or she does not want to do.
10. Influence: Some of our prayers aren't yet answered because they are working gradually and not as an impersonal mechanism of forced control.