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Episode 011: Why doesn’t God answer every prayer?
Prayer often begins with asking—but what if that’s not where it should begin?
In the final episode of this five-part prayer series, Steve Carter and Eric Parks explore petition: bringing our requests, desires, and longings before God. Together they wrestle with why asking matters, how naming our desires forms us, and what it means to trust God even when the answer isn’t what we hoped for.
Along the way, they share stories from childhood prayers for baseball cards, bikes, elections, and first girlfriends before turning toward the deeper questions every follower of Jesus eventually faces: What do you do when God says no? How do you release the things you want most? And why might adoration, confession, lament, and thanksgiving reshape the very prayers we pray?
Rather than treating prayer as a way to get what we want, this conversation reframes petition as an act of relationship, trust, and surrender.
Whether you’re praying for healing, direction, your children, or simply trying to understand why some prayers seem unanswered, this conversation offers a thoughtful framework for bringing your deepest desires before God while learning to trust Him with the outcome.
Meet your hosts, Eric Parks and Steve Carter
Eric Parks
Eric is an Executive Pastor at Plum Creek Church in Castle Rock, Colorado, who cares deeply about helping people rehearse the way of Jesus in everyday life—and holds firm as a Denver Broncos fan, no matter how often Steve brings up the Bears.
Steve Carter
Steve is the Lead Pastor at Christ Church in Oak Brook, Illinois, offering a thoughtful and honest voice to the deeper work of formation and calling—and remains a devoted Chicago Bears fan, even with Eric representing Broncos country.
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We’re all following something—habits, expectations, ambition—but Jesus offers a different way. A way marked by love, presence, trust, and a life that actually leads somewhere good. Not perfectly, but increasingly, we begin to shape our lives around his.
We believe that if Jesus is right—about God, about life, about the soul—then is only makes sense to rearrange your life around what he says is true.
Follow isn’t a program to complete or a path to master, but a way of life centered on Jesus. A way of living that takes shape over time through a steady rearrangement of our lives—our priorities, our rhythms, and the things we trust most.
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Follow: https://www.followtheway.church/
Plum...
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By Plum Creek ChurchEpisode 011: Why doesn’t God answer every prayer?
Prayer often begins with asking—but what if that’s not where it should begin?
In the final episode of this five-part prayer series, Steve Carter and Eric Parks explore petition: bringing our requests, desires, and longings before God. Together they wrestle with why asking matters, how naming our desires forms us, and what it means to trust God even when the answer isn’t what we hoped for.
Along the way, they share stories from childhood prayers for baseball cards, bikes, elections, and first girlfriends before turning toward the deeper questions every follower of Jesus eventually faces: What do you do when God says no? How do you release the things you want most? And why might adoration, confession, lament, and thanksgiving reshape the very prayers we pray?
Rather than treating prayer as a way to get what we want, this conversation reframes petition as an act of relationship, trust, and surrender.
Whether you’re praying for healing, direction, your children, or simply trying to understand why some prayers seem unanswered, this conversation offers a thoughtful framework for bringing your deepest desires before God while learning to trust Him with the outcome.
Meet your hosts, Eric Parks and Steve Carter
Eric Parks
Eric is an Executive Pastor at Plum Creek Church in Castle Rock, Colorado, who cares deeply about helping people rehearse the way of Jesus in everyday life—and holds firm as a Denver Broncos fan, no matter how often Steve brings up the Bears.
Steve Carter
Steve is the Lead Pastor at Christ Church in Oak Brook, Illinois, offering a thoughtful and honest voice to the deeper work of formation and calling—and remains a devoted Chicago Bears fan, even with Eric representing Broncos country.
Explore all of FOLLOW
We’re all following something—habits, expectations, ambition—but Jesus offers a different way. A way marked by love, presence, trust, and a life that actually leads somewhere good. Not perfectly, but increasingly, we begin to shape our lives around his.
We believe that if Jesus is right—about God, about life, about the soul—then is only makes sense to rearrange your life around what he says is true.
Follow isn’t a program to complete or a path to master, but a way of life centered on Jesus. A way of living that takes shape over time through a steady rearrangement of our lives—our priorities, our rhythms, and the things we trust most.
Links
Follow: https://www.followtheway.church/
Plum...