When God Says No

The Heidi St. John Podcast

Heidi St. John

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Suffering and longing can make us feel like God must not be hearing us or maybe doesn’t even love us. We are not God, and we don’t see this world in the same way He does. Join me today and let’s dig into the scripture and talk about how we keep pushing forward when God says no. SHOW NOTES

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0:00.0	Have you ever wondered why God doesn't answer prayer?
0:03.8	Maybe you've spent some time praying about something for a long time
0:07.2	or maybe something happened in your life that was tragic
0:10.2	or disappointing or even devastating.
0:13.2	The Bible has a lot to say about how God feels about us
0:17.6	and it's true that sometimes the answer is no.
0:21.2	We're going to talk about this today.
0:22.4	Stick around.
0:23.0	I think you're going to be encouraged.
0:24.7	I've got a letter recently from a listener on the East Coast
0:36.3	and she was struggling with some things that have happened in her life
0:39.6	over the last couple of years.
0:40.8	Most significantly, the cry of both her and her husband
0:45.1	to be able to have a child and the Lord
0:48.0	seeming to say no to that.
0:49.7	Years of in vitro fertilization, miscarriages,
0:53.2	all kinds of disappointment and heartache
0:56.5	around the theme of them wanting to have a family of their own.
1:00.9	And so she asked the question, does God answer prayer
1:05.0	and sometimes say no or should we just keep praying?
1:09.3	Well, the Bible never tells us to stop praying.
1:11.9	We're to keep praying all the time.
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