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This is part of an ongoing series during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. To engage further in the #QuarantineSoulCare<\/strong> series, click here<\/a>.<\/em><\/h5>\n

Perhaps one of the greatest reasons we don\u2019t ask God for what we want or need is because we\u2019re afraid that he won\u2019t do it. We fear that he\u2019ll say no, that he won\u2019t answer the way we asked, or that he won\u2019t even answer at all. Unanswered prayer is perhaps one of the most perplexing parts of prayer. Why would God invite us to ask him for anything and promise us that he is listening, only to abandon us at the altar of our asking? \u2026
\nIt is impossible for me to understand why God hasn\u2019t answered all of my honest and earnest prayers. And it\u2019s irresponsible for me to try to tell you why he hasn\u2019t answered yours. It is true that sometimes God uses your asking and waiting and asking and waiting to grow a deeper faith and deeper desires in you. It is true that sometimes God answers your prayers in unexpected ways to lead you to something far greater than you even knew you could ask for. It is true that sometimes there is sin between us and God, sin that keeps us from intimacy with God. \u2026 All those things are true\u2014and yet I still don\u2019t know why God answers some prayers and doesn\u2019t answer others in ways that we hoped for or can recognize. But I do know that right after Jesus taught us how to pray, he taught us how to keep on praying. \u2026
\nPrayer is an unapologetic act of audacity. The willingness to keep on knocking, keep on asking, keep on trusting, and keep on believing, even when you don\u2019t get what you want or in the way you want it, is the alchemy of faith and persistence. It means having the faith to take God up on his invitation to ask him for whatever you need\u2014and the tenacity to hold him to it.<\/p>\n

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Don\u2019t burn out; keep yourselves fueled and aflame. Be alert servants of the Master, cheerfully expectant. Don\u2019t quit in hard times; pray all the harder.
\n–Romans 12:11-13, The Message<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 
\nMay today you take God up on his invitation to ask him for whatever you need, and may you have the tenacity to hold him to it. #quarantinesoulcare <\/a><\/span>Share on X<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Today’s reading was taken from\u00a0Praying Through<\/em><\/a> by Jarrett Stevens<\/a>.<\/h4>\n

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