What About Unanswered Prayers?

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🗓️ 24 August 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Podcast Excerpt: What shall we do when we have prayed for a time and our prayer appears to be unanswered? Shall we cease to call upon God? Shall we let it go?

Some people pray for a time and then accept whatever comes to them or happens as a result of their prayer. They accept misfortune or adversity, if it comes after they have prayed, as an answer to their prayer. They believe that if they have prayed in some fashion or other, whatever comes to them is God's will, even though that which comes is obviously evil.

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1:42.8	Today's talk was edited and adapted from
1:46.0	Mightier Than Circumstance by Frank B. Whitney, published in 1935.
1:58.1	What shall we do when we have prayed for a time, and our prayer appears to be unanswered?
2:05.6	Shall we cease to call upon God? Shall we let it go?
2:11.6	Some people pray for a time and then accept whatever comes to them or happens as a result of their prayer.
2:20.7	They accept misfortune or adversity if it comes after they have prayed as an answer to their
2:28.8	prayer. They believe that if they have prayed in some fashion or other, whatever comes to them is God's will. Even though they have prayed in some fashion or other, whatever comes to them is God's
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