The Prayer You Don’t Want Answered

Ask Pastor John

Desiring God

John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 9 May 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Sometimes, God responds to our sinful requests with a merciful no. But other times, he gives what we ask, brings misery with it, and then amazingly works good through it.

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0:00.0	The prayer you don't want answered.
0:07.0	Fascinating topic today coming up because we meet it soon in the Navigator's Bible
0:11.6	reading plan later this weekend. On May 12th we read
0:14.8	Psalm 106-15 together, a text we've been asked about recently by a listener.
0:21.2	Pastor John Hello, my name is Amy and I live in Lincoln, Nebraska.
0:24.5	As I read the Bible, I see that there are times when we ask God for things wrongly and he
0:29.1	mercifully just says no.
0:31.2	We see this in James 4.3. And there are times when we ask God for things
0:35.1	wrongly and he says yes. That seems to be the case in Psalm 106. 15. Can you
0:41.9	explain this verse and Israel's quote,
0:44.0	wanton craving in the wilderness, in
0:48.0	quote in Psalm 10614.
0:50.0	I presume it's for food.
0:52.0	What about this prayer is evil? Why do you think God
0:54.8	responded by giving them what they wanted? Why also the wasting disease? I'm
0:59.9	confused you're having a hard time understanding the principle when I find in other texts
1:04.2	namely in Psalm 78 verses 29 to 31 yes and I'm gonna add a pair of other texts
1:10.9	into the mix here to and interject them for Samuel chapter 8
1:14.3	verses 7 and 22 because those are verses we just looked at in APJ 2029 recently
1:19.8	okay so can you explain this Amy, and tell me whether this should inform how we ask for things today and what we ask for?
1:28.0	Are we liable to have a wrongfully asked prayer, get answered by God for our own undoing.
1:37.0	When I lived in Tennessee for a year, I discovered that there were two hiking routes up the back of Stone Mountain.
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