Do you have tendency to grin and bear it when God doesn't answer your prayers? God doesn't call you to a stoic response. God's grace shines brightest through your weakness. In this message, you'll identify the features of Paul's triumphant prayer: the request, God's reply, and Paul's response. What difference will God's sufficient grace make for you when the answer is "no"?

If someone doesn't pray regularly, it's probably due to some unanswered prayer. You have a choice when the answer to your prayer is a clear "no." You can become resentful, or the answer can increase your faith. In this message, you'll ask relevant questions about Paul's thorn in the flesh—one of the best examples of triumph in unanswered prayer. What might God give you that's better than what you asked of Him?

When disaster strikes, some view prayer as merely positive thoughts or energy. Don't be stuck in that low view of prayer. Habakkuk and Joseph lived in tumultuous times like these. They both journeyed from frustration to the calm assurance that God is in charge. In this message, you can be delivered to a new perspective of faithful commitment to God amid any disaster. Imagine what would happen if you committed yourself to God with total abandon.

There are so many issues to be anxious about: failing in your work or studies, providing enough for your family, or the overall state of the nation. In Habakkuk's day, evildoers were having a field day in Israel. In this message, you'll recount the truths that God is in control, He's been faithful from the beginning, and He cares. You too can put your confidence in God because there's neither trouble that befalls you nor authority over you unless it's given from above.

How do you praise God when calamity is raging? Do you deny it, accept it, or what? The prophet Habakkuk's dialogs with God show a man wrestling with how God could seemingly be out of touch with how tough things were. In this message, you'll arrive at two fundamental conclusions about God. Let's get to the heart of the prophet's complaint as we learn to truly praise during dark times.

Where is God when injustice, poverty, exploitation, fraud, and disasters come? America and the world today seem to be heading from bad to worse. In Habakkuk's day, he prayed for deliverance and was sent disaster. In this message, you'll listen to the prophet's prayer, perplexity, and his posture amid disaster. If you're feeling perplexed about God and His ways in the world, He hasn't abandoned His sovereignty. He's with you still.

Do you struggle to develop habits in your time alone with God? Knowing the Lord in prayer is far more vital than getting what you want from Him. As you know God more, your passion for Him will increase and your desire for sin will decrease. In this message, you'll ponder five choices that develop intimacy with the Lord during your quiet time. You can come boldly to the throne of grace even when the answer is disguised.

As you mature as a Christian, you'll find prayer shifting from asking for things to asking for God.

That's why answers to prayers are often more than you could ask or imagine. In this message, you'll identify what makes faith sure: the right object, the right motivation, and the right process. God wants a relationship with you that transcends the daily details that seem so crucial.

Prayer is something of a mystery. The answers sometimes come from unexpected directions, even unrelated to what you requested. When you think your prayers are unanswered, you may have received an answer in disguise. In this message, you'll make the paradigm shift in your prayers from the mentality of "getting" to the mindset of relationship. When you pray, God might not give you the initial request, but instead, give you Himself in the middle of all the hurt.

Can believers expect guidance or physical healing on demand? When waiting on God feels like forever, eternity is exactly what you need to keep in mind. In this message, you'll be provoked to pray even more when God delays His answers. Like the heroes of faith, you can begin to anticipate and "live in light of" the eternal city of God. Your confidence in God answering prayer is based on so much more than your ability to "pray right."