God on Mute: Engaging the Silence of Unanswered Prayer

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In this session we address questions of the heart: seeking to find purpose in pain and strategies for dealing with disappointment.

That one ultimate miracle—the resurrection of the Son of God from the dead—assures us that every buried dream and dashed desire will ultimately be absorbed and resurrected into a reality far greater than anything we can currently imagine. Q. Looking back on past disappointments, does anyone have an example of a time when God knew best, even though you didn’t think so at the time? But however zealously we may pray for health, wealth, and a happy home, sooner or later life goes wrong. In this session we wrestle with the some of the most difficult intellectual questions: why does an all-loving, all-knowing, all-powerful God allow suffering?Personally, I found it helpful, but I suspect it will be a step too far for some my Reformed friends.

Take a minute or two in the silence to reflect on an area of suffering you have experienced, consider ways in which you have been able to find – or might be able to find – some kind of purpose in it or in spite of it. 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.This newly revised book with a 40-day devotional was released on Zondervan, in 2007 and 2020, looks at how we can engage the silence of unanswered prayer. These new disciplines and postures are important so that we know how to navigate the uneasy and unanswered moments. So here you have the leader of a global prayer movement, who really knows the power of prayer and sees prayers answered all the time, having to wrestle with the fact that his own prayers for something that desperately, desperately matters to him aren't being answered at all. It features daily Bible readings, a weekly memory verse, engaging questions to pause and talk about, and prompts for reflection and prayer.