God on Mute

Engaging the Silence of Unanswered Prayer

By: Pete Greig

Narrated by: Pete Greig

An honest, soul-searching pursuit of biblical answers to one of Christianity's most challenging questions: What do you do when God meets your prayers with silence?

Many of us have struggled with prayers that seem to go unanswered, and Pete Greig has been down that difficult road of doubt. This book is both intensely personal and deeply theological—a book born out of his wife Sammy's fight for her life after a horrifying diagnosis.

The acclaimed author of Red Moon Rising wrestles with the hard side of prayer, how to respond when there seem to be no answers, and how to cope with those who seek to interpret our experience for us.

For those struggling with prayer, God on Mute brings a message of hope and comfort, but also a better understanding of how we communicate with our Creator. Using the timeline of Holy Week (from Maundy Thursday through Easter Sunday) as a template, Greig explores four main questions about prayer from all angles:

• How am I going to get through this?
• Why aren't my prayers being answered?
• Where is God when he seems silent?
• When every prayer is answered...what does that mean?

Silence in response to our most heart-felt prayers is the hardest thing for a person of faith to wrestle with. The world collapses. Then all goes quiet. Words can't explain what we're going through. People avoid you and don't know what to say. So you turn to Him and you pray. You need Him more than ever before. But somehow even God Himself seems on mute. And this sinks into us with a sense of futility...

But even in this crushing silence, there is a way forward. Here is a story of faith, hope, and love beyond all understanding.

Helped me so much!

I love this book! It helped me so much. There have been times in my life when I knew God heard and answered my prayers. But, there was one prayer that I literally prayed for years believing not only that God heard me but I also believed he would answer the prayer in the way I had asked. He didn’t and I stopped praying. This book taught me so much. It was not another “preachy” kind of book. Well written. Soothing. I highly recommend this book to anyone seeking to understand what can seem like silence.

Quietly Powerful

Thought-provoking, encouraging, well-written, and very pleasant narration. Thankful for the ‘clip’ feature on Audible since there are so many takeaways that are too important to not remember or share. I will read this again and. have already recommended it to others.

Amazing book

This is an amazing book that will touch your heart and notl leave you the same person you were before you read it.

So helpful!

I so appreciate this book! Thank you Peter Greig for writing in such a genuine, heartfelt way that doesn’t AT ALL shy away from the hard questions. The suggestions made for how to deal with very difficult realities seem so practical and doable. God bless you, your family & ministry!

Deep, raw encouragement

I am thankful for Pete’s willingness to show himself transparent to ask the hard things and yet encourage ME by pointing to the Lord Jesus not by cliché but rather truth and testimonies. Thank you for this book!