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theophilus:
Heb 4:16 Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Php 4:6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;
It doesn't make sense to me to pray as much as Paul exhorts us to and to make our requests known to God if He is not gonna answer NOT EVEN ONE OF THEM!
The Lord God has already decided what must happen. In my opinion, God has decided our needs, problems, sicknesses. These are one side of the coin. The other side of the coin, which God has also decided beforehand, is our prayers for these needs, problems and sicknesses and His answer to our prayers or His lack of answer.
He has decided beforehand which of our requests He is to grant. But I do not believe that He will not answer ANY of our requests. He has also determined, IMO, whether we should pray or not. If we find ourselves praying for anything, God determined that. If we find ourselves not praying, He has also determined that.
I think it's more profitable to pray than not to pray, like Kat was saying. I think it's about developing a dependence and trust in our Heavenly Father.
As a personal testimony, God healed me of hepatitis when I was a teenager. So, I believe that God answers prayer when it's in accordance with what must be. Thank God that the healing of hepatitis was in accordance with what had to be. I wasn't privy to this knowledge, but God was.
Roger.
John from Kentucky:
On the contrary, God answers every prayer made to Him.
Every one of my prayers is answered by God, once I learned how to pray.
Jesus prayed that the Father would remove the suffering He was destined to suffer. But the Father said NO.
Jesus received an answer to His prayer and that answer was NO. Jesus didn't go to a pity party or blame God or complain that it just wasn't fair that He had to suffer since He had done no wrong.
Instead, Jesus prayed that the Father's will be done.
I learned from Jesus how to pray. I only pray the same prayer over and over again. Your (the Father's) will be done. I have had a 100% success rate for all my prayers once I got the message.
darren:
My point excactly J.F.K. God;s Will is gonna be done. We humans pray for many, many differents things. As you rightly spoken God will answere it just might not be what you would expect the out come to be. unless we understand that we must only pray that His Will is done.
cjwood:
"As a personal testimony, God healed me of hepatitis when I was a teenager. So, I believe that God answers prayer when it's in accordance with what must be. Thank God that the healing of hepatitis was in accordance with what had to be. I wasn't privy to this knowledge, but God was."
roger's statement of faith above, is evidence that "what must be" and "what had to be" are most surely God's will being done. and roger admits he wasn't privy to the knowledge that his hepatitis would be gone. healed. i just see this as him praying in faith. by the faith God graced him with. he thanks God because God WAS privy to the knowledge that the hepatitis would be healed. we are called to faithful prayer. even Jesus Christ first mentioned in prayer to His Father, may the cup be removed, before He was to be taken as a prisoner. and He knew that He was going to die on the cross, with much physical suffering and pain. before He asked His Father to remove the cup of suffering from the hard physical pain his physical human body was going to endure before He got to that cross. our Saviour knew, yet He still asked for relief from suffering such physical pain.
our Father Creator wants His children to talk to Him in conversation. that's what good and loving parents do. and i guarantee, parents desire to hear more from their children that just the same repetitious spew. details, they like details, whether they admit it or not. good and loving parents with children do that. :)
done.
claudia
darren:
Greetings Kat, Psa 73:28 But it is good for me to draw near to God;
I have put my trust in the Lord GOD,
That I may declare all Your works.
I take it that first God drags us to Him. We have no say so in this matter. Unless were talking already being dragged to The Lord, then I totally understand Psa 73:28 Kat, here is your word to me: Darren, I think prayer is always beneficial for us, it is our conscience intent to communicate with God. If anything is of concern then we should reach out to God and speak of it, He will answer. He won't change His plans, but He can comfort our worries, and He can help us to understand better. It is an attitude of trusting in Him, to turn to God in prayer with everything, to call upon "Abba, Father."Lord God. On this point I totally agree. Great point. Thanks. To Ricky, Kat wins again. Really. There is no winners or losers at B.T. Were here to gather knowledge, wisdom and information and try to learn from the the B.T family as best as we can. This is how we grow. So Kat wins again. How is that helpfull. Now if I misunderstood your comment I'm sorry my bad
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