God on Mute: Engaging the Silence of Unanswered Prayer

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Still pray about small things: it is a privilege to be heard by God and natural to ask for help, communicate like any relationship. God sometimes can answer small things if they actually have large implications. Praying about small things opens our eyes to God's daily blessing, so we can live in greater gratitude. The Great Minimum of Life (G.K. Chesterton) beholds the wonder of everyday miracles, where the smallest pleasures are answers to prayers. In dealing with doubt tell Him. Honestly share your disappointments with others. You can pray like others: I believe, help my unbelief! These discussions are designed to last an hour (plus 30 minutes for the video) but we have deliberately given you more content and questions than you will be able to get through in this time. Just choose the parts that you feel will work best for your group and don’t worry if one or two questions sometimes take up the whole of the session. We recommend that you always make time for personal prayer ministry at the end. Writing out of the pain of his wife's fight for her life but also the wonder of watching the prayer movement they founded touch many lives, Pete Greig wrestles with the dark side of prayer and emerges with a hard-won message of hope, comfort and profound biblical insight for all who suffer in silence. Leading the reader carefully through the four days of Christ's passion, Pete Greig pauses at each stage to explore one of the great questions with which we all struggle when we suffer:

Q. Pete Greig talks about the holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl and the importance of finding some kind of purpose in spite of our pain.This is the beginning of an amazing journey. The Prayer Course II videos provide useful teaching, but it is in small groups that this information turns into transformation through the power of personal discussion and prayer. I don’t want to remain in this place of sorrow and anger… I want to choose life again, and I want to find life again.” – Simon Thomas Life's great trials either make you bitter or better, never unchanged. Engage the silence and redeem your disappointments to be a creative force for God. How: I have 2 adult daughters that are chronically ill and this book has helped me be more at peace with the current situations. And looking forward to Gods great work, even if it in the afterlife in Heaven. The book is deeply personal, reflecting Pete Greig's own experience with unanswered prayer, while at the same time deeply rooted in the Bible and various theological works. It is both heartfelt and well-researched. By sharing his own experiences, the author really made me feel like he could understand my doubts. He always came off as sympathetic, never condescending. And he includes some nice pinches of humor to lighten things up at times.

God on Mute is simply the best resource I've ever found on unanswered prayer, bar none. With emotional vulnerability, autobiographical honesty, theological acuity, and the prophetic fire we've come to expect from one of the global church's most respected leaders, Pete Greig offers us a way forward when our prayers go dark. Don't lose your faith, don't abandon your prayers, read this book.' John Mark Comer Pete Greig, the acclaimed author of Red Moon Rising, has written his most intensely personal and honest account yet in God on Mute, a book born out of his wife Samie’s fight for her life and diagnosis of a debilitating brain tumor. Greig asks the timeless questions of what it means to suffer and to pray and to suffer through the silence because your prayers seem unanswered. This silence, Greig relates, is the hardest thing. The world collapses. Then all goes quiet. Words can’t explain, don’t fit, won’t work. People avoid you and don’t know what to say. So you turn to Him and you pray. You need Him more than ever before. But somehow…even God Himself seems on mute.Q. How are you feeling about the things we’ve discussed today? Are there any areas in which you’d appreciate prayer? Q. What, practically, do you think is needed for persevering in faith and prayer through the ‘winter seasons’ of life?

Q. What did you find most helpful, inspiring or challenging in what Pete Greig, Gemma Hunt and Alain Emerson shared? My daughter recommended this book to me and I am so glad she did! This is the best book/study I have read on prayer. Pete Greig's experience with suffering and his sound theology opened my mind and heart to new ways of handling suffering, trials and , especially, unanswered prayers in the midst of those situations. Best-selling book from one of the leading Christian authors and thinkers, now fully revised with a new 40-day devotional. pesar de todos los avances tecnológicos y el aumento de la expectativa de vida, hay una fragilidad extraordinaria en nuestra generación. Colapsamos fácilmente, nuestros matrimonios se desbaratan y somos rápidos para ofendernos. En nuestro mundo obsesionado con la celebridad, el escape a la muerte y anestesiado contra el dolor, necesitamos que se nos recuerde que es normal tener dificultades, enfermarnos, experimentar problemas financieros y enfrentar el rompimiento de relaciones. Jesús nos promete: “Ustedes tendrán tribulación” (Juan 16:33), pero no muchos de nosotros pegamos ese versículo en nuestro refrigerador. Al contrario, cuando encontramos dificultades, nos sentimos traicionados. Preguntamos: ¿por qué yo? Como si esas cosas no acosaran al seguidor de Cristo. Como si fuéramos inmunes a las enfermedades que afligen a nuestros vecinos.” If your group is more than 3 people, we would recommend splitting into smaller groups of 2 or 3 to give everyone an opportunity to share and pray for one another. Explain how much time you will have for prayer, and roughly how much time each person will have for sharing and praying. Ask one another

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The only small thing I want to say about it though, is - at least from what he shared, I could be wrong - I think the author is missing a huge part of what gives us strength and signs of God's presence through the worst seasons of life: the local church. He mentions it here and there, but at various points as he recounts his or others' stories I couldn't help but wonder things like, "Was no one in your church willing to watch your kids while you went to the hospital? Or maybe you didn't feel comfortable enough to ask anyone? Was the strongest encouragement you received from the body of Christ really a letter from across the country from people you never met?" Unfortunately, I know church at its best for many people is a bi-weekly gathering rather than the Acts 2-type sacrificial community God meant it to be. I pray the author and others reading this will one day discover deeper strength and peace from a tight-knit church community somehow. Unanswered prayers happen to everyone and can be challenging. But never forget God is a God who loves us. God is also a Holy and powerful God able to do anything. In the pain do not forget that. God will ultimately make all things new. If you are NOT interested in an authentic and a transparent believer of the God the Bible claims the Only True One telling his own stories and some others, this is not a book for you. Today it’s the questions of the heart: “How am I going to get through this?” and we’re going to look at Jesus on Maundy Thursday in the Garden of Gethsemane. Some prayers aren’t answered because creation is “subjected to frustration” and hast not yet been fully “liberated from its bondage to decay” (Rom. 8:20-21). Tragically, life in such an environment is inevitably going to be acutely difficult at times.”

What I relish about this book is that Pete faces the problems full-on, without apology or excuse. . . . It is a Christian classic.' archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby Another strength of the writing is that it is peppered with stories, some delightful, some funny, some deeply poignant, but all full of hope and faith, pointing to a deeper reality that goes beyond our present difficulties and a God who will ultimately never disappoint. Going deeper and growing stronger Five free videos and discussion guides based on Be Still: A Simple Guide to Quiet Times, the new book from Brian Heasley. The Be Still series will equip you and your community to learn how to develop a regular rhythm and deeper daily relationship with God.

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Q. Pete Greig says, “God does not leave us to suffer alone” – is this something that you have experienced? Where has God met you in your suffering? Over the years we've lost count of the number of times we've recommended God on Mute to people who are wrestling with doubts and struggling to connect with God in seasons of pain and confusion. It's achingly honest, beautifully crafted and theologically deep--an absolute classic. For both of us, this is one of the most profound and helpful books we've ever read on one of the most essential questions, 'Where is God when it hurts?' (And we're not just saying that because we love Pete!)' Tim and Rachel Hughes, Gas Street, Birmingham, UK, and Worship Central International