It’s easy for circumstances and conditions to hurt your faith, if those are what you’re going by. You can find so many things that didn’t turn out the way you thought they should, and so few that were obvious and irrefutable miracles. It’s also easy to lack faith and feel you don’t “deserve” a miracle or answer to prayer when you start looking at your sins or faults or imperfections, or other factors that you feel have some bearing on being able to ask Me for something in full faith.
The solution is not to try to understand why things do or don’t happen—unless there is a specific cause that I want to show you so that you can learn for next time—but instead to work on your reactions to those things. Your goal should be to approach each situation with faith and trust, counting on Me to do what I know is best, and believing that I’ll come through for you regardless of how things turn out.
There are so many factors in play, and the only absolute is faith—a faith that goes beyond “proof” or validation, a faith that you hold to and keep strong all the days of your life even if you do “die in faith, not having received the promises.”