We'll happy Friday everyone.

Thanks for listening to the podcast.

My name is Tony Ranky and John Piper joins us today over the telephone.

You know, Pastor John, we get a steady stream of emails from listeners who ask about unanswered

prayers, like this one from a podcast listener named Luis.

Hello, Pastor John.

In Philippians 419, I read this promise, that God will supply every need of mine according

to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

But I don't see God providing as his word says he would.

My prayers go up, but it seems like God is silent.

Or he consistently answers me with an implied no.

This causes me to feel discouraged and ignored.

How do I respond to this no from God when I pray for good things?

I think few things have caused me to search my soul and search the scriptures more than

the fact that I have called upon the Lord to do things, which I think are imperfect

accord with his will according to scripture.

And yet he has not or not yet seen fit to grant or at least grant in the way that I

asked or hoped for.

So I don't look upon the problem of unanswered prayer in a theoretical way, but in a very

personal and sometimes gut wrenching way.

I don't claim to have a final answer.

I hope someday to understand better and to have gone deeper with God in prayer so that

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