1. Intensity – A crisis causes you to focus all of your energy to pray for a divine solution.
2. Distraction – You cannot sustain indefinite intensity: your heart and mind are distracted.
3. Anger – Anger emerges and is directed at God for not taking action, the cause of the problem, or yourself for not being able to do more.
4. Accusation – Satan the accuser says that God hasn’t answered because of your sinfulness.
5. Frustration – You are no longer certain how to pray.
6. Revelation – Provided you stay in the Word, deeper understanding will develop about waiting on God for answered prayer.
7. Determination – Faith at this point is not a feeling, but a willful determination to be faithful in prayer, no matter how or when (if ever) God answers.
–Ron Susek from Pray magazine