When God Doesn't Answer Your Prayer: Insights to Keep You Praying with Greater Faith and Deeper Hope
More than a decade ago, Jerry Sittser prayed for the protection of his family, yet three of his loved ones--his daughter, his wife, and his mother--died in an automobile accident. What went wrong?
"Why wasn't my prayer answered?" he asks. "It is no longer an abstract question to me. What should we do and how should we respond when our prayers--prayers that seem right and true and good--go unanswered?"
In When God Doesn't Answer Your Prayer, Sittser continues exploring the issues he addressed in A Grace Disguised. He asks, "Why doesn't God answer our prayers? What, if anything, can we do about it?" Sittser is intensely committed to exploring the Christian faith, especially when it doesn't seem to "work." In this thoughtful and beautifully written book, he moves beyond easy answers and religious formulas to explore the goodness and greatness of a God who cannot be controlled but can be trusted.
When God Doesn't Answer Your Prayer takes an honest and probing look at the problem of unanswered prayer. In doing so, it draws us ever deeper into a relationship with the God who is the end of all our prayers, the object of our faith, the one who fulfills our deepest longings.
Top Highlights
“Desperation might be the true heart of prayer. But it is also a scourge and a terror. It makes us feel spiritually naked, utterly exposed, as if we were beetles flipped over on our backs, awaiting the inevitable stomp of a child’s foot. Desperation forces us to pray as we ought. Desperation also makes us vulnerable to the disappointment of unanswered prayer.” (source)
“The Psalms show us that, when we approach God, we must speak the truth — about ourselves, about our circumstances, especially about our feelings.” (source)
“Unlike the revealed will of God, which can be known through Scripture, the hidden will of God is inscrutable and mysterious.” (source)
“is not what God does for us that demonstrates his greatest answer to prayer; it is what God does in us .” (source)
“First, we listen thoughtfully and carefully to God, and then we ask wisely and boldly.” (source)
Product Details
- Title : When God Doesn't Answer Your Prayer: Insights to Keep You Praying with Greater Faith and Deeper Hope
- Author: Sittser, Jerry L.
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publication Date: 2009
- ISBN: 9780310867067