{"id":3300,"date":"2009-07-12T21:21:24","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T01:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=3300"},"modified":"2018-11-15T11:39:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T19:39:15","slug":"why-doesnt-god-answer-my-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/why-doesnt-god-answer-my-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Doesn&#8217;t God Answer My Prayer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.orthodoxnet.com\/z-img-lib\/Illumined_Heart_icon.jpg\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 4px 4px 9px;\" border=\"0\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ancientfaith.com\/podcasts\/illuminedheart\">AFR &#8211; The Illumined Heart<\/a> | Kevin Allen | Jun 5, 2009<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the most perplexing questions for all Christians. In this episode of The Illumined Heart, host Kevin Allen engages author and theologian Dr. Jerry Sittser, author of the book &#8220;When God Doesn&#8217;t Answer Your Prayer&#8221;, in an honest conversation about this often ignored question. His answers are not academic or simply formulaic and come from the deep and hard places.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.orthodoxnet.com\/z-img-lib\/podcast_button_xsm.jpg\" \/> <strong>Why Doesn\u2019t God Answer My Prayer?<\/strong> &#8211; 6\/5\/09 <a class=\"wp-embedded-audio\" href=\"http:\/\/audio.ancientfaith.com\/illuminedheart\/ih_2009-06-05_pc.mp3|titles=Why\">http:\/\/audio.ancientfaith.com\/illuminedheart\/ih_2009-06-05_pc.mp3|titles=Why<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Direct Link to Audio file (right-click to download)<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"Why Doesn\u2019t God Answer My Prayer?\">Why Doesn\u2019t God Answer My Prayer?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Join Kevin Allen each week on The Illumined Heart podcast on Ancient Faith Radio. Featuring insightful interviews on subjects of faith, theology, history, comparative religion and personal faith journeys with Eastern Orthodox Christians (and others!) you should know! <\/p>\n<p>You can visit Kevin, post a comment, or contact him by going to his website, <a href=\"http:\/\/ancientfaith.com\/podcasts\/illuminedheart\"><strong>The Illumined Heart<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/ancientfaith.com\/podcasts\/podup\/illuminedheart\/why_doesnt_god_answer_my_prayer\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFR &#8211; The Illumined Heart | Kevin Allen | Jun 5, 2009 This is one of the most perplexing questions for all Christians. In this episode of The Illumined Heart, host Kevin Allen engages author and theologian Dr. Jerry Sittser, author of the book &#8220;When God Doesn&#8217;t Answer Your Prayer&#8221;, in an honest conversation about &#8230; <a title=\"Why Doesn&#8217;t God Answer My Prayer?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/why-doesnt-god-answer-my-prayer\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Why Doesn&#8217;t God Answer My Prayer?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[68,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-orthodox-christianity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}