If God Doesn’t Answer, Should I Keep Praying?

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Spiritual Disciplines

If God Doesn’t Answer, Should I Keep Praying?

25 min

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Spiritual Disciplines

If God Doesn’t Answer, Should I Keep Praying?

25 min

Episode 725 Show Notes

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If this unrighteous judge, by the persistence of this widow, was willing to grant her request, how much more will a good and caring God hear our prayers?

–Adriel Sanchez

If God Doesn’t Answer, Should I Keep Praying?

Questions in this Episode

  1. What do Jesus’s warnings in Matthew 24:20 mean?
  2. How do I find rest when I feel like I am experiencing spiritual warfare?
  3. My wife and I have stopped attending church and I don’t feel that bad about it and this surprises me. Do I have to be apart of a church?
  4. Is it ever wrong to keep praying for something to happen? There are a couple things that I have been praying for for years now and I’m wondering if God just wants me to stop praying for those things and just be content with my current life circumstances or is it okay to keep praying for those things to happen?
  5. Have Old Testament promises that God made to the nation of Israel been fulfilled by the New Covenant, or are there promises yet to be fulfilled to this group identified as “God’s chosen people”? If so, what are some examples?

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Adriel Sanchez is the pastor of North Park Presbyterian Church (PCA) in San Diego, CA. He received his theological training from Westminster Seminary California and serves as host of Core Christianity. Adriel is the author of Praying with Jesus and, most recently, Why We Worship: Experiencing Heaven on Earth at Church. He and his wife, Ysabel, have six children.

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