Man is fallible, but God is not. In 2 Corinthians 1, Paul wrote to the Church at Corinth to explain why he didn’t come to visit them. He ran into a lot of trouble, almost losing his life. You can tell from this letter that Paul was upset about not being able to join them, but his trouble was so great that he had to stay in place. He must have felt their disappointment and reminded them that you can’t always count on humans because they are yes and no, but you can always count on God because he is yes and amen. Even with our most serious issues, when we feel that God can’t hear us, we know that He has a perfect plan, and even though we are anxious, He won’t fail to deliver us one way or another. If you are facing trouble, ask for prayer like Paul did, and if someone asks you to pray for them, pray. Your faith and their faith together will help petition God for an answer. I always see prayer requests on social media, and I don’t scroll past without praying; I may not respond by commenting, but I make it a point to pray anyway. I feel like it’s our duty to reach out to God on behalf of others because if they ask, it must be a great need or of importance to them, and they believe that God will hear their prayer if they combine in faith with other believers.
But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us; Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf. 2 Corinthians 1:9-11