Why doesn’t God answer my prayers?
Curiously Kaitlyn
Phil Vischer
5 • 759 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Theologian and pastor Dr. Mika Edmondson joins Kaitlyn today to tackle a pretty challenging question: Why doesn’t God answer my prayers? Dr. Edmondson describes what prayer is, walks us through some of the different answers God gives to our prayers, and shows us how Jesus models trusting God in the midst of suffering.
0:00 - Episode Starts
0:58 - Theme Song
1:50 - Why Does God Not Answer My Prayers?
5:40 - Why Does God Not Always Answer?
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18:32 - How to be Faithful in Disappointment
23:00 - Thorn in His Flesh
24:30 - How Would You Answer a Kid?
27:08 - End Credits
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Curiously Caitlin, where we take a kid question about God, theology, or the Bible, and find a scholar to answer it. |
| 0:08.0 | This week, I hate to break it to you, we have a question that truly has no fully satisfying answer. |
| 0:15.0 | Why doesn't God answer my prayers? |
| 0:18.0 | Many of us who grew up in church first learned about prayer through the prayers we pray |
| 0:21.8 | at home in the morning, before dinner, before bed, and we learn about prayer in church. People |
| 0:27.3 | share prayer requests with each other. We pray together in the service. We hear reports |
| 0:31.7 | in Sunday school or from the pulpit of prayers that were answered. And by answered, we |
| 0:37.1 | usually mean God gave someone the thing they |
| 0:39.9 | asked for. Today, we have a scholar and a pastor to answer the question that many of us then |
| 0:46.4 | learn to ask. Well, why does God seem to answer some people's prayers, but not others? Most |
| 0:53.6 | personally, why doesn't he seem to answer mine? |
| 1:00.2 | I don't know. That doesn't make any sense. |
| 1:16.5 | Dr. Edmondson, thank you so much for joining me again today. |
| 1:18.1 | Hey, thanks for having me. |
| 1:20.1 | It's a real blessing to be here. |
| 1:22.8 | This is Dr. Micah Edmondson. |
| 1:29.9 | He is the lead pastor at Coinania Church in Nashville, Tennessee, and the author of The Power of Unlearned Suffering, |
| 1:34.1 | the roots and implications of Martin Luther King Jr.'s The Odyssey. |
| 1:40.2 | Theodicy is a fancy way of saying, his answer to the problem of evil, why God lets bad things happen, |
| 1:47.3 | which makes Dr. Edmondson a very good person to answer this question today. Well, let's hear our kid question today. We've got a really like chill, easy, easy to answer one for you. |
| 1:52.7 | Why does that answer my prayers? All right, Dr. Edmondson, what is your just initial reaction |
| 1:59.2 | to this question? Why does God not answer my prayers? |
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