It was just a couple of weeks ago when something my wife and I had been praying for a long time

came to fruition. We got an answer from God. We had a child who was wandering away from the faith

and kind of had shut God out and said, I don't believe in God at all. And we were on the phone with

her and she said, I'm back with God.

And we wept. And it was the answer to a long, long prayer journey for that child. It doesn't

always work that way. You don't always get a yes answer from God. But what if he did say yes?

Why don't you ask? I'm John Fuller, joined by Dr. Danny,

who leads our parenting team, and Danny, Jesus said, you don't have because you don't ask.

Right, right. But there's this sense of, but I didn't get what I wanted out of the prayer.

So true, John. How about you? What's a prayer that God answered either a no or a yes,

and it was very clearly God? Wow, John, what a question. And I hope listeners are processing this

one as well, because we assume an answered prayer is the one we exactly wanted. That's an assumption. There are prayers

there that I'm thinking about, that I prayed, and I've prayed consistently for my kids,

shape them, do what you need to do to help them be strong in their faith, to be steadfast adults, to be individuals that are able to persevere,

to be principled, to have character, I'm asking for hard things. And so when I'm asking for

relief from the hard things, then I'm going opposite of that potentially. And so I've seen my son

and my daughter have their own moments of wrestling.

And I remember I've gone to my knees for both my son and my daughter for certain things

where I'm going, Lord, please, please help them with this one thing.

Just quietly off to the side, praying and petitioning for them.

And one thing I've consistently prayed for for my son was that he would find a young

woman. He said, man, I'm interested in getting married someday and had that dream. And I said,

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