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When years of prayer don't change addiction

I've been praying the same prayer for my son's addiction for two years and he just got arrested again, and I don't know if I should keep going or accept that prayer can't fix everything.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Persistent prayer in the face of unchanged destructive patterns forces a reckoning with the limits of spiritual intervention.

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