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Why does God need our prayers?
by Dave Malnes
Can we pray for you
The real reason for praying has little to do with asking for things. We pray simply because God wants us to pray. Prayer is talking to God.
Does He really need our prayers? No, God doesn’t need our prayers to bless us. The bigger question is, “Why does God want me to pray in the first place?”
Prayer is a means for us to build a faith-filled, loving relationship with our Creator. Asking for things is just one minor aspect of our relationship with God. He is already as good, concerned, informed and powerful as He can be. But since a loving relationship with Him is His highest concern for us, God constructs the order of things so that a loving relationship with him will be facilitated.
Because of this, God ordains that some things will only be done through prayer.
If God doesn’t need our prayers, then is prayer truly effective?
God commands us to pray for several reasons.
1. Prayer is a constant reminder that God is the only source for help and strength.
When we truly slow down and examine our lives, during good times and bad, it is God that receives all credit and glory.
2. We need to remember our relationship with God in our present fallen condition.
We have all heard studies and testimonies on the healing power of prayer, but God does not act like a cosmic vending machine. A person does not make a request, pull a lever, and have our request granted. People are miraculously healed and people tragically die. What’s the difference? What didn’t work?
There are billions of variables that go into God’s moment by moment interaction with the world. There is His overall plan for humankind and for the universe. There is His plan for each individual. There is the strategy of the spiritual battle with which He is involved. There is the degree to which He has ordained our prayer to have consequences in the world.
To understand all of this would be like walking into a theater in the middle of a movie. Would you be able to explain the whole movie after only one minute of viewing? Or, would you be able to teach a chemistry class after reading one page of a textbook?
Prayer is a means to give us confidence and peace that God is working out all things for good, even when he says no to our prayer. Faith and trust becomes the critical element of being sure in what we hope and pray for and certain of what we do not see.
Thoughts from this article came from www.gregboyd.org.
by Dave Malnes
Can we pray for you
The real reason for praying has little to do with asking for things. We pray simply because God wants us to pray. Prayer is talking to God.
Does He really need our prayers? No, God doesn’t need our prayers to bless us. The bigger question is, “Why does God want me to pray in the first place?”
Prayer is a means for us to build a faith-filled, loving relationship with our Creator. Asking for things is just one minor aspect of our relationship with God. He is already as good, concerned, informed and powerful as He can be. But since a loving relationship with Him is His highest concern for us, God constructs the order of things so that a loving relationship with him will be facilitated.
Because of this, God ordains that some things will only be done through prayer.
If God doesn’t need our prayers, then is prayer truly effective?
God commands us to pray for several reasons.
1. Prayer is a constant reminder that God is the only source for help and strength.
When we truly slow down and examine our lives, during good times and bad, it is God that receives all credit and glory.
2. We need to remember our relationship with God in our present fallen condition.
We have all heard studies and testimonies on the healing power of prayer, but God does not act like a cosmic vending machine. A person does not make a request, pull a lever, and have our request granted. People are miraculously healed and people tragically die. What’s the difference? What didn’t work?
There are billions of variables that go into God’s moment by moment interaction with the world. There is His overall plan for humankind and for the universe. There is His plan for each individual. There is the strategy of the spiritual battle with which He is involved. There is the degree to which He has ordained our prayer to have consequences in the world.
To understand all of this would be like walking into a theater in the middle of a movie. Would you be able to explain the whole movie after only one minute of viewing? Or, would you be able to teach a chemistry class after reading one page of a textbook?
Prayer is a means to give us confidence and peace that God is working out all things for good, even when he says no to our prayer. Faith and trust becomes the critical element of being sure in what we hope and pray for and certain of what we do not see.
Thoughts from this article came from www.gregboyd.org.
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I am waiting for info on the next seasons for: Untamed, The Burbs and Happys Place.
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What’s the biggest challenge in your life right now?
My thought about prayer is God knows what I need,
But, He would like to talk with me about it!!!
Cool post, Kathilee.
When we ask in Jesus’ name we are saying to God that we believe that we are asking is according to Jesus’ will
We recognize that we have no authority before God to ask, but Jesus does, and we are asking in His name, because He is our Savior and He says to ask in His name