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Message at 21:00. What happens when we ask, seek, and knock at God’s door…and it feels like we’re met with silence? Isn’t this the most disillusioning, even discrediting, aspect of prayer? As Tyler Stanton says in his book, Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools, it would almost be easier to accept if God opened the door and said no. When we’re met with silence–at least as far as we can tell–we have our feelings, big feelings, and then we have choices. Even if the silence is real, we can choose to believe that the silence actually means God is indifferent and doing nothing, or we can believe something else…and we can do something else. Let’s talk about that something else. Scripture: Matthew 7:7-8; Luke 18:1-8; Acts 10:4; Psalm 56:8

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From Series: "The Prayerful Life: a Series for Beginners, Experts & Skeptics"

Everyone has experiences with and opinions about prayer. Though many folks have tons of good experiences and positive views of prayer, there are still many others (perhaps more) who struggle with prayer. What if prayer--for those with the good experiences and those with the not-so-good experiences--is like a land we haven't fully discovered yet? We want to help folks grow in prayer as the ultimate space of growing intimacy with God and being shaped by God’s heart for an eternal kind of life in the here and now and beyond. Prayer is the space where we are still with God, listen to God, thank God, get angry at God, grieve with God, confess to God, petition God. It’s a lifelong garden of relationship where we cultivate trust with the One who made us, saves us, and sustains us. It’s the incubator where the Spirit shapes us so we join Jesus in his restoring work so Earth is as it is in heaven.