Today on Summit Life with JD Greer.

As a pastor, I will tell you I find that people don't have a problem with pray.

Almost every Christian I know prays.

The problem is when they don't see a lot of immediate answers for the things they're praying for.

And so they give up assuming that prayer doesn't work.

The problem is not a prayer problem.

It is a persistence problem and this text addresses that.

Welcome to Summit Life with pastor, author, and theologian JD Greer.

I'm your host, Molly Vitavitch.

Today, Pastor JD tells the story of Jacob, a man who began his life as a deceiver and ended his life with a limp.

But who right in the middle actually wrestled with God and received an unimaginable blessing as a result.

Jacob provided a model for all of us who have ever waited on God to answer us.

Through Jacob, we learned that many of the blessings of God are released into our lives only through persistent, unrelenting prayer.

Be sure to stay tuned to the end to learn more about our latest resource, a set of three prayer books meant to go alongside this current teaching series on the program.

You can give us a call at 866-335-52220 or visit us at JD Greer.com for more information.

But now let's jump into today's message titled, Why Doesn't God Answer My Prayer?

If you had your Bible this weekend, if you'd open it to Genesis 32, in her book, Prodigals and Those You Love Them,

Ruth Belgram, Billy Graham's wife, tells the story of waking up in the middle of the night worried for one of her children.

I don't know if you know this, but Billy and Ruth Graham, who arguably were two of the most significant Christians of the 20th century,

had prodigals in their family. Most notoriously, their oldest son, Franklin, who for many years ran from God hard.

She says, it was around three o'clock in the morning when the name of someone that I loved dearly flashed into my mind.

She said, it came into my mind like an electric shock instantly. I was wide awake. I knew there would be no more sleep for me for the rest of the night,

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