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Invariable, when asked if "prayer works", Christians emphatically respond "YES!" ... Perhaps, that is why we often spend more time speaking, rather than listening, when we pray (?)
Jesus prayed persistently and has instructed His disciples to do likewise. But, to what end? Doesn’t God already know our minds, hearts and needs (“God knows you have need of these things”), Still, we are instructed to “pray without ceasing … and to make our requests known to God” … Obviously, there is a purpose to prayer … beyond simply ‘informing God of our perceived needs.’
Suppose God acted in our lives … without prayer. How would we know that it was God --- and not simply coincidence, luck or random chance? Additionally, how would we praise and thank God, without prayer? God gives us prayer so that we will truly depend on HIM, not ourselves or this world. Then, when God answers our prayers with HIS response, we recognize that GOD is the source of “every good and perfect blessing.” … This, in turn, causes our faith to grow, brings Spiritual maturity … and builds our relationship with the Living God.
So, the bottom line is that it’s not prayer that works, but God who wants us to know Him better; .. to trust and depend upon Him for our lives; and to communicate with Him … through prayer, so that He can better make Himself known to us.
Invariable, when asked if "prayer works", Christians emphatically respond "YES!" ... Perhaps, that is why we often spend more time speaking, rather than listening, when we pray (?)
Jesus prayed persistently and has instructed His disciples to do likewise. But, to what end? Doesn’t God already know our minds, hearts and needs (“God knows you have need of these things”), Still, we are instructed to “pray without ceasing … and to make our requests known to God” … Obviously, there is a purpose to prayer … beyond simply ‘informing God of our perceived needs.’
Suppose God acted in our lives … without prayer. How would we know that it was God --- and not simply coincidence, luck or random chance? Additionally, how would we praise and thank God, without prayer? God gives us prayer so that we will truly depend on HIM, not ourselves or this world. Then, when God answers our prayers with HIS response, we recognize that GOD is the source of “every good and perfect blessing.” … This, in turn, causes our faith to grow, brings Spiritual maturity … and builds our relationship with the Living God.
So, the bottom line is that it’s not prayer that works, but God who wants us to know Him better; .. to trust and depend upon Him for our lives; and to communicate with Him … through prayer, so that He can better make Himself known to us.
Prayer is also for the purpose of making intercession on behalf of others and should be done before petitioning on your own behalf.
God does the Work and will receive the Glory......, but He does not do anything in the earth unless believers pray, if he did, the world would be a lot better place with more people saved ......... In Matthew 7: 7-12......Jesus said ...``Ask, and it will be given you; seek and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you..... for everyone that asks receives and he that seeks find and to him that knocks it will be opened.....know how to give goods gifts to your children, how much more will your father which is in Heaven give good things to them that asks Him ?....... See keys to answered prayer is to pray the Word of God because God spirit knows the Word of the Lord, and Pray the Will of God by His true Character and Words, plus ask seek and knock , and pray in the faith of love of God ........
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