You complain that your prayers are not answered. Well, that is where you are wrong

You complain that your prayers are not answered. Well, that is where you are wrong. If your prayer is sincere, fervent, and disinterested it is answered, but it is answered gradually. What you are asking for cannot be realized in a day, but you have set in motion a continuing and developing process leading to growth and expansion. The very moment you pray, your wish begins to be realized, but time is needed before it is granted in full. You plant a seed: for that seed to become a tree, it takes time, but already your wish is being fulfilled because the seed is already sprouting. If you are praying for the kingdom of God and His justice you cannot make it happen within a day; that is not possible. It is a gigantic tree which cannot reach full growth all at once. But since the seed has been sown, the tree has already begun to grow.