The National Day of Prayer and the “discomfort of uncertainty”
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The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 7 May 2026
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The 2026 National Day of Prayer is today. Millions of Christians around the US will pray for our nation personally and in gatherings with other believers. To a skeptic, this must seem an unprovable assertion, a self-fulfilling prophecy akin to a horoscope. Such skeptics are right: we cannot prove to them, or even to ourselves, that time spent in prayer today or any other day is warranted, that the God to whom we pray is the God we believe him to be. However, today we discuss how our inability to prove our faith through reason invites us to focus less on what we “too much discuss” and “too much explain,” as T. S. Eliot noted, and more on the God who should be the object of our worship and service.
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| 0:00.0 | You didn't expect it to shake you this much. Maybe it was the diagnosis. Maybe it was the funeral. |
| 0:09.0 | Maybe it was the prayer that went unanswered. You believe in God. You always have. |
| 0:14.0 | But lately, you find yourself wondering, why didn't he allow this? Why didn't he intervene? Can I really trust him? The world has answers. |
| 0:25.9 | Everything happens for a reason. Just have more faith. Don't ask questions. But none of those bring |
| 0:32.6 | peace because deep down, you don't need cliches. You need clarity. |
| 0:38.7 | You need truth strong enough to hold your questions. |
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| 0:48.8 | In this honest and personal book, |
| 0:51.5 | Jim tackles the hardest questions Christians can carry, but rarely say out |
| 0:56.0 | loud. Questions about suffering, about doubt, about prayer, about whether we can truly trust |
| 1:03.0 | the God we serve, not with shallow reassurance, but with biblical depth and thoughtful conviction. |
| 1:10.1 | Because wrestling with God is not the end of faith. |
| 1:13.7 | It's often where deeper trust begins. |
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| 1:33.8 | A link is in today's episode notes. |
| 1:36.6 | Get your copy today and learn to wrestle honestly and trust God more deeply. |
| 1:48.0 | Music and trust God more deeply. Welcome to the Thursday, May the 7th, 2026 edition of Denison Forum's daily article podcast. |
| 1:54.9 | Cultural Theologian and co-founder Dr. Jim Denison wrote today's daily article. |
| 1:59.9 | I'm Chris Elkins, narrator. |
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