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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...

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. Where God Is But this place of desolation and desperation might also be the very place where God is most likely to be. Gordon MacDonald, a
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