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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...

is not what God does for us that demonstrates his greatest answer to prayer; it is what God does in us . God wants to change us to his liking, not to change the world to our liking. As author and translator Eugene Peterson writes, “Prayers are not tools for doing or getting, but for being and becoming.”2 We need to ask God to take this fragile, selfish, flawed self of ours and make it more like him. God will answer that prayer. Oswald Chambers believed that prayer changes us so that we can then
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