The Pain of Unanswered Prayers

In Mark 11:20-25 Jesus reminds his disciples that God is able to do the impossible and he calls them to ask him for anything, believing that they will receive it, and he will give it to them. Some of you may have tried this. Some of you have asked God for the impossible and truly believed that he would do it, and yet nothing happened. And the truth is that hurts. It hurts to believe that God is going to do something impossible and then find out that he doesn’t. So what do we do? Do we stop asking? Do we keep asking but no longer really believe its going to happen? What are we supposed to do with all the impossible things we long for when praying about them often only leads to pain? These are some of the questions we will try and answer in tonight’s sermon.