What happens when prayer is unanswered?

Sometimes it feels like God is on mute! But what does it mean for our faith? What does it say about God’s will? 24/7 Prayer founder Pete Greig tackled some of these tough questions in a recent Limitless podcast.

Pete Greig experienced the painful reality of unanswered prayer when his wife Sammy nearly died.

“I went from thinking my prayers could save the planet to questioning whether they could save my own wife,” he said in a Limit less podcast with Tim Alford.

“How many times do you watch the woman you love more than anyone in the world slip into an epileptic fit, crying out to God to make it stop and it not working? “How many times do you do that before you think that either there isn’t a God or there’s some issue here?” We all experience unanswered prayer and we need to get real about it, Pete says.

That’s why, in his book ‘God on Mute’, he explores 15 reasons why prayers sometimes remain unanswered.

Here are some things he had to say about three big topics in the Limitless podcast.

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