When God Says No: Reshaping Prayer and Learning to Listen

Does it feel like God has stopped listening to your prayers? Do you approach prayer with confidence or with confusion? Perhaps you have given up organized prayer entirely resorting to monotonous habitual shallow repetitions--day after day after day. This work will address these and other questions we all have about communicating with God. In these pages you will find straight talk about substantial pitfalls along the road to authentic prayer. Dr. Tom Hauff provides an in-depth investigation into the ways we pray the goals prayer should accomplish and how we respond to Gods answers. You will find that God has not stopped listening and that prayer does not have to be confusing. It can be vibrant and life-giving productive and encouraging but there is a key to such a prayer life. In this book in an easily accessible way Dr. Hauff unfolds this foundational key: We genuinely communicate in prayer only when we learn to listen honestly to God. Thomas R. Hauff (MDiv ThM Western Seminary; PhD University of Sheffield UK) is an Assistant Professor of Bible and Theology at Multnomah University in Portland Oregon.