You've read passages in the Bible that promise God will hear and answer prayer.

So has Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth.

But isn't it true, if we're honest, that sometimes our experience seems to contradict those promises?

I'm be honest.

Haven't you had those times where you say, I know what God's word says, but I've been praying,

I've been crying out, and it doesn't seem that God is hearing or answering my prayers.

Listen, anybody can trust God with one bad day, short-term situations.

But when you have long-haul suffering and you cry out, how long, Lord?

I keep crying out to you, but still, you don't do anything.

It's that how long question.

You will not hear.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgge.

Author of Surrender, The Heart God Controls.

For June 21st, 2022, I'm Dana Gresh.

How do you deal with unanswered prayer? Nancy will tackle that topic by taking us to a

prophet who knew what it was like to not have his prayers answered.

Here's Nancy, continuing in a series she began yesterday called Habakkuk, moving from fear to faith.

It was a hot July afternoon in 1967 when a 17-year-old girl dove into a shallow lake and her life was changed forever as she broke her neck and was paralyzed from the neck down. You know the story of Johnny Erickson Tata, how she suffered a spinal cord fracture that left her paralyzed and without use of her

hands and legs. Johnny has talked and written about some of the feelings and thoughts she had in the

early days after having that injury. At one point, she said, I had so many questions. I believed in God, but I was angry with him. If God is

supposed to be all-loving and all-powerful, then how could what happened be a demonstration of his love and power? Surely he could have stopped it from happening, she said. How can permanent lifelong paralysis be a part of his loving plan for me?

Unless I found answers, I didn't see how this God could be worthy of my trust.

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