In order to really get answers sometimes you have to do more than just pray. Like Jesus taught his disciples when they failed to cast out an evil spirit... you must fast with a purpose and pray. (Mark 9: 28-29) 28 And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?

29 And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting