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#338 Unanswered Prayer - Jimmy Akin

Daily Defense Podcast

DAY 338 CHALLENGE “Unanswered prayer disproves Christ’s teaching on prayer. Jesus said, ‘If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, “Move from here to there,” and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you’ (Matt. 17:20b). But experience shows that we can’t do such things by prayer.” DEFENSE Jesus’ teaching is more complex than this challenge suggests. It doesn’t involve a promise that we’ll always get what we ask. First, Jesus makes the statement when the disciples have just failed to exorcise a demon. When they ask why they were unable to dr...