Teaching | Unanswered Prayer | Prayer E03
Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 25 February 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
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 14v12-13; John 15v7, 16-17; John 16v23-24; Daniel 10; Matthew 21v21-22; Luke 18v1-8; Psalm 66v18; Isaiah 58v6-12; Psalm 13
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the John Mark Comer Teaching's Podcast by Practicing the Way. |
| 0:05.0 | This teaching was first given at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon |
| 0:10.0 | as a part of the prayer practice. |
| 0:13.0 | Last week I sat with a young |
| 0:17.0 | last week I sat with a young mother in our church a few days after a miscarriage and she was just grieving. And the backstory was she was at the women's line in prayer and for a while the Holy Spirit |
| 0:38.6 | had been stirring up in her heart faith to step out in the things of the spirit. |
| 0:44.0 | And so for the first time ever, as I understand the story right, |
| 0:47.8 | she came up to pray for somebody |
| 0:50.5 | and had a prophetic word, and there was this beautiful moment and right after that she got |
| 0:56.2 | up and went to the bathroom and started to bleed and came right back in and so we need to pray and was full of faith and she said |
| 1:05.0 | quote I really believe that God was going to heal me and they prayed and she |
| 1:10.2 | lost the baby. What do you do with that? |
| 1:15.0 | Tuesday night, sitting around the table with my Bridgetown community, |
| 1:19.0 | grieving again, there's a child of one of the members in our community and older mother now and |
| 1:27.0 | we've been praying for this child for months because he's been on the long slow road to drug addiction and all that comes with it. |
| 1:35.0 | Been praying that he would check himself into a rehab center and finally like |
| 1:40.8 | after months the prayer was answered and and he said yes, went across the country, |
| 1:45.0 | and then we got a text in the group text saying he just checked out and left on foot, money nothing. What do you do with that? My own life Friday |
| 1:58.7 | Tammy had a doctor's appointment. A lot of you have been praying for my wife, |
| 2:01.9 | thank you, |
| 2:02.6 | and know about our journey over the last year or two. |
| 2:06.0 | And the official diagnosis is in, |
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