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Wild at Heart

Conversations on Prayer - Part 5

Wild at Heart

Wild at Heart

Christianity, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In the series conclusion, John and Allen respond to questions about prayer sent in by podcast listeners.

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0:00.0

Dear Ransomt, I don't know that anyone has the answer to this, but I'm sure we've all asked

0:08.0

how to handle the disappointment of God answering the prayers we pray for others and loved ones while the deep cries of our own

0:17.1

hearts seem to continue to fall on deaf ears. I know God hears us and I know he cares. But what do we do with unanswered prayers that come from such deep places in us?

0:31.0

How do we live now in the waiting when it hurts so much, when healing doesn't come,

0:38.9

when friends and family leave and abandon us.

0:43.0

When loneliness cuts us through, when life doesn't work out.

0:47.4

What do we do with that stuff, especially when we continue to see our prayers for others answered. I'm just baffled at how my prayers

0:56.0

seem to be effective for everyone and everything except for my own life.

1:05.0

Friends, welcome back to the Ransantar Podcast. John Eldridge here, reading a question from one of our many listeners.

1:12.0

We are wrapping up a series on prayer here this week,

1:17.6

the second week in December, second week of Advent.

1:22.0

And looking forward to next week and getting into some Christmas

1:25.6

content we just thought this prayer series was so important we couldn't we

1:31.3

couldn't finish it without answering some of the questions that we've been getting.

1:36.0

So Alan and I are back in the studio this week with quite a few pages of printed questions that you all have sent in and this first one is

1:47.7

It's kind of right at the core of the matter isn't it? It's a huge one. How would you answer that question, John? What is the advice for someone going through this?

1:56.9

You know, it raises, it raises actually so many important questions about prayer and our hearts and our life with God.

2:05.0

And I think the main thing I want to say right off the bat is preserve the relationship.

2:12.0

We're going to talk actually a lot about some of the is preserve the relationship.

2:12.8

We're going to talk actually a lot about some of the things

2:16.0

that get in the way of prayer and maybe some things to try

2:18.8

or things to consider, but I don't want to go to technique I want to go to love and I want to go to

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