Finding Joy When Your Prayers Go ...
Finding Joy When Your Prayers Go Unanswered | Lara Silverman | Ep. 158
God’s Goodness | Christian Testimonies, Hearing God’s Voice,... by Shelly & Josh Hankins | How to Hear God, Faith Stories, Breakthrough, God Encounters, Faith Podcast
S4 · E2
Sep 15, 2026
48:48
Episode notes

What happens to your faith when you’re trusting God in suffering, praying for healing, and nothing seems to change?

You know God is good. But unanswered prayer can leave you wondering why His goodness doesn’t look the way you thought it would.

How long can you keep praying when the answer still hasn’t come? And what happens when life takes something from you that prayer can’t bring back?

Lara Silverman had just stepped into the career she had worked years for when a mysterious neurological illness changed everything.

What followed forced her to wrestle with a question much bigger than whether her circumstances would change:

Is God’s goodness something we measure by what He gives us?

Because if His goodness isn’t measured by the outcome you’ve been praying for, where do  ... 

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