When we get discouraged because we’ve prayed for something for years, what should keep us going in persistent prayer? Does it honor God for us to keep praying for the same thing or does it show a lack of submission to his will?

Francis Chan, Brian Davis, and TGC Council member Sam Storms discussed how Christians should react when it appears God isn’t responding to our prayers. They discuss Romans 8:28, what we are permitted to ask God for, and what we can confidently expect. “I want to be enthusiastic and expectant that all things are possible with God,” Davis said. “I can ask him for anything, knowing that nothing is impossible with him. But I can’t put my hope in anything that’s just possible.”

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Francis Chan is the author of Crazy Love, Forgotten God, and Erasing Hell. Currently, Francis is planting churches in the San Francisco area. Together, Francis and his wife Lisa raise their seven children in Northern California and are co-authors of the new book You and Me Forever: Marriage in Light of Eternity.

Brian Davis is currently the lead pastor at Exalting Christ Church in Minneapolis, MN. He and his wife, Sonia, have two sons and a daughter.

Sam Storms (ThM, Dallas Theological Seminary; PhD, The University of Texas at Dallas) is pastor emeritus at Bridgeway Church in Oklahoma City, founder of Enjoying God Ministries, and a Council member of The Gospel Coalition. He has written numerous books, including Packer on the Christian Life and Practicing the Power. He and his wife, Ann, have two children.