What do you do when your prayers are not answered? In Jesus' teaching to His disciples in John 14-17, He tells them three times that whatever they ask for in His name will be done. So how do we make sense of Jesus’ promise to answer prayer with the reality that we all have unanswered prayers? In this teaching, John Mark goes through the various types and reasons for unanswered prayer in the Bible and explains how "laments" in the Psalms can serve as an example for how to bring our unanswered prayers to God.

Key Scripture Passages: John 14:12-13; John 15:7,16-17; John 16:23-24; Daniel 10; Matthew 21:21-22; Luke 18:1-8; Psalm 66:18; Isaiah 58:6-12; Psalm 13

You can find various resources for this practice here: https://practicingtheway.org/practices/prayer

Other Resources: God on Mute by Peter Greig

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