Welcome to session 4 of The Prayer Course II: Unanswered Prayer! As usual today we’re going to watch a video, then we’re going to discuss the questions it provokes and finally we’re going to pray together. Last time we thought about Maundy Thursday and asked the heart question: “How am I going to get through this?” Today we’re going to think about Good Friday and ask the more intellectual question: “Why am I suffering? Why am I going through this? Why is God letting this happen to me?”

Writing out of the pain of his wife's fight for her life but also the wonder of watching the prayer movement they founded touch many lives, Pete Greig wrestles with the dark side of prayer and emerges with a hard-won message of hope, comfort and profound biblical insight for all who suffer in silence.

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Some prayers aren’t answered because of our disregard for the needs of others in our communities and in other nations too.” Some prayers aren’t answered because they would be detrimental to the world and to the lives of others.” Some prayers (even spiritual sounding ones) aren’t answered because they are, in fact, selfishly motivated.” My daughter recommended this book to me and I am so glad she did! This is the best book/study I have read on prayer. Pete Greig's experience with suffering and his sound theology opened my mind and heart to new ways of handling suffering, trials and , especially, unanswered prayers in the midst of those situations.

Q. Earlier we shared the “why?” questions we’d like to ask God. Returning to this exercise, what would your most personal “why?” question be? In the third installment of Suzanne Collins's New York Times bestselling The Underland Chronicles, Gregor must stop a plague from spreading through the Underland.Some prayers aren’t answered because creation is “subjected to frustration” and hast not yet been fully “liberated from its bondage to decay” (Rom. 8:20-21). Tragically, life in such an environment is inevitably going to be acutely difficult at times.” Welcome to session 3 of The Prayer Course II: Unanswered Prayer! As usual we’re going to do three things: First, we’ll watch a video. Then we’ll discuss the questions it provokes. Finally and most importantly, we’ll pray together. Some of our prayers aren’t yet answered because they are working gradually and not as an impersonal mechanism of forced control.” From memorising scripture to noticing beauty everywhere, 24-7 Prayer International Director Brian Heasley explains that we don’t need to be static for our hearts to be still, and how even in the midst of a full, busy life, we can spend quiet time with God. Be Still will change the way you think about prayer and devotion and equip you with all the tools you need to deepen your relationship with God.

Originally written out of the pain of his wife's fight for her life, but also the wonder of watching the prayer movement they founded changing lives around the world, Pete Greig steps into the dark side of prayer and emerges with a hard-won message of hope, comfort, and profound biblical insight for all who suffer in silence. Doctrine. Some prayers aren't answered the way we think because our expectations and understanding of God are wrong. Q. In the midst of your pain and silence, have there been moments where you have been able to say, like Elie Wiesel, “There is God?” God's Will is the best. And we will not be able to understand it all. How tragic if our destiny followed our own logic and imagination. We shall come over the day to a heaven where we shall gratefully know that God's great refusals were sometimes the true answers to our truest prayers. It is always more important why we pray than how we pray or what we say. Miracles only happen when our prayers harmonise with God broad desires in our life, we are promised these prayers will always be answered!

Las grandes pruebas de la vida invariablemente nos dejan huellas; nos marcan con amargura o nos hacen mejores. Nunca nos dejan igual (página 212). Me di cuenta de que había dos maneras en que podía responder a la situación: reaccionar con amargura o procurar transformarla en una fuerza creadora.118 Pete sugiere que tratemos de encontrar caminos de enlazar creativamente con el silencio recordando, buscando y hablando claro sobre el modo en que Dios ha hablado y se ha movido.” Still pray about small things: it is a privilege to be heard by God and natural to ask for help, communicate like any relationship. God sometimes can answer small things if they actually have large implications. Praying about small things opens our eyes to God's daily blessing, so we can live in greater gratitude. The Great Minimum of Life (G.K. Chesterton) beholds the wonder of everyday miracles, where the smallest pleasures are answers to prayers. To prepare for that, and to get the most out of the session, read chapters 1-6 of God on Mute. This is also available as an audiobook if you find that easier. Closing prayer I don’t want to remain in this place of sorrow and anger… I want to choose life again, and I want to find life again.” – Simon Thomas