God on Mute: Engaging the Silence of Unanswered Prayer

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Pete has such a gift for praying simply, yet eloquently and of leading others to a deeper understanding of what prayer does and doesn’t do. It was first released when Jesus endured death so that we might receive a living hope that never dies. In the vortex we glimpse a kind Father who seems to be trustworthy anyway, and promises He is listening.

So here you have the leader of a global prayer movement, who really knows the power of prayer and sees prayers answered all the time, having to wrestle with the fact that his own prayers for something that desperately, desperately matters to him aren't being answered at all.Some prayers aren’t answered because God’s will is being directly contested by “the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms” (Eph. This liberal German theologian denied the virgin birth, the resurrection and even the deity of Jesus. This newly revised book with a 40-day devotional was released on Zondervan, in 2007 and 2020, looks at how we can engage the silence of unanswered prayer.

Are looking in the right areas; through God's word, dreams, what seems right-being led by the Holy Spirit? For example, in one part he claims that miracles are rare and may not be particularly helpful in our time. The course as a whole aims to help us process pain and disappointment by addressing the four big questions we all tend to ask when we suffer.If you could ask God one totally honest question about something you find difficult in your life, what would it be? But it is this very conviction—the belief that prayer works—that causes perplexity and pain when it doesn’t.

He preaches and teaches around the world and co-hosts two British festivals: Wildfires and the Big Church Day Out which attracts 30,000 people each year. The girl at the checkout hoping she’s not pregnant, the businessman staring at his sales figures, the teenager laying flowers by the roadside. This book is both intensely personal and deeply theological - a book born out of his wife Sammy's fight for her life after a horrifying diagnosis.In fact, I think it’s potentially dangerous to put so much faith in faith that we ignore the facts and kiss our brains goodbye.