Every Christian knows that they are expected to pray. Many Christians do pray, but yet still some do not get the expected results. I can't deny the fact that there may be many other factors which are responsible for that, but in most cases one can easily trace the cause of such to prayers prayed amiss!

 James 4:3 KJV
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

Prayers prayed amiss are prayers that miss their target. It's like a man going hunting for the first day just after buying a gun the previous day, without proper knowledge on how to aim his shot at an animal. He'll possibly return home frustrated after firing many bullets off-targets in the forest.

I so much love the Acronym P.U.S.H (Pray Until Something Happens). It tells us in a nutshell how the prayers we pray should be structured. It is perfectly okay for Christians who are still new in the faith to pray the way they can and still get expected results, the LORD understands. But such quality of prayers will definitely lack the potency to keep sustaining them as they grow in the faith.

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Every Christian knows that they are expected to pray. Many Christians do pray, but yet still some do not get the expected results. I can't deny the fact that there may be many other factors which are responsible for that, but in most cases one can easily trace the cause of such to prayers prayed amiss!

 James 4:3 KJV
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

Prayers prayed amiss are prayers that miss their target. It's like a man going hunting for the first day just after buying a gun the previous day, without proper knowledge on how to aim his shot at an animal. He'll possibly return home frustrated after firing many bullets off-targets in the forest.

Scripture states that God does not answer the prayers of the unrighteous; the pleas and requests and every petition of the unrighteous are tainted by their sins(disobedience/unholiness) and are hence an abomination to God. So, what is definite is that even your many pleas for the forgiveness of sins are not answered by God given that God made no special exemptions for that kind of pleas. No amount of praying can cause God to change His mind regarding that which concerns the unrighteous by the way. So if you are thinking of prescribing more prayers that only means you really don't understand or know God at all.

God, however, openly bragged about how He only answers the prayers of the righteous; He delights in granting them the desires of their heart meaning that they are those who are loved by Him. For this very reason, Jesus Christ urged His followers to seek first the Kingdom of God and God's Righteousness in order that all things— the blessings and rewards of the Kingdom of God(holiness), answers to prayers included—shall be added on to them. And as Jesus Christ explained in His Gospel, the only way to become Holy, and then also Righteous, is by way of continuous submission and obedience to the teachings and commandments of Jesus Christ, god's Truth and Law in the Kingdom of god - John 8 vs 31 - 36 & John 14 vs 15 - 23. Jesus Christ is the only way. Obedience to the Truth of God is the one and only path to righteousness. No amount of praying and other religious rituals can accomplish that.

You need to understand the meaning of the word "amiss" in order to realize what James was instead trying to tell you in that verse that you pulled from his epistle. If you consult Webster's dictionary, you will find that the word means to be in an imperfect state, a state that is not in the right order aka unrighteous.

Amiss

1. : not being in accordance with the right order. : faulty, imperfect.

What James was saying in that verse is that the reason you do not receive from God is that you are asking in an unrighteous state—a state that is not in accordance with God's mandate of righteousness. So, clearly, you cannot benefit anything from remaining in an unrighteous state as far as God is concerned. That is what God said, and James reiterated it in that verse there.