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When God Doesn't Answer Your Prayer: Insights to Keep You Praying with Greater Faith and Deeper Hope is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

Unlike the revealed will of God, which can be known through Scripture, the hidden will of God is inscrutable and mysterious. It encompasses God’s sovereign control over history, which he is guiding to an unknown but glorious ending. God knows because he transcends time and space; we don’t know because we are bound by time and space. God experiences all times as the present; he lives in all places at once. God is sovereign over all; he is in complete control.14 God is the author of the epic story