{"id":7703,"date":"2019-09-30T04:47:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/unanswered-prayers\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:47:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:47:54","slug":"unanswered-prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/unanswered-prayers\/","title":{"rendered":"Unanswered Prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his book &#8220;Why Prayers Are Unanswered,&#8221; John Lavender retells a story about Norman Vincent Peale.<\/p>\n<p>When Peale was a boy, he found a big, black cigar, slipped into an alley, and lit it up.  It didn&#8217;t taste good, but it made him feel very grown up&#8230; until he saw his father coming.  Quickly he put the cigar behind his back and tried to be casual.<\/p>\n<p>Desperate to divert his father&#8217;s attention, Norman pointed to a billboard advertising the circus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Can I go, Dad?  Please, let&#8217;s go when it comes to town.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His father&#8217;s reply taught Norman a lesson he never forgot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Son,&#8221; he answered quietly but firmly, &#8220;never make a petition while at the same time trying to hide a smoldering disobedience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n<p>John Allan Lavender,  Why Prayers are Unanswered  (Judson Press, 1968)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his book &#8220;Why Prayers Are Unanswered,&#8221; John Lavender retells a story about Norman Vincent Peale. When Peale was a boy, he found a big, black cigar, slipped into an alley, and lit it up. It didn&#8217;t taste good, but it made him feel very grown up&#8230; until he saw his father coming. Quickly he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[196,195,193,194,191,192],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}