How to Gain and Lose God's Sympathy

How to Gain and Lose God’s Sympathy
2 Kings 20:1-21

My wife Ann had multiple sclerosis for forty-two years until she died a year ago. We and other people prayed for her healing on lots of occasions in many ways, supported by a number of high-profile figures in the world of praying for healing. She never got healed. Yet it was not the case that God simply ignored all those prayers. God gave her a ministry that she exercised through her having to live with her increasing disability, and God made a man out of me through my having to live with it. Sometimes people say that prayer is designed to change us, not to change God, and that’s a very dangerous half-truth. Prayer is designed to change God, but prayer is part of a relationship, and you can’t predict ahead of time how the interactions in a relationship will work out...