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Kat:

Hi Darren,


--- Quote ---So God inspires us to pray, If so how can we pray for something that is not of God's will? 
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We have to learn how to pray "in His will."  Before we have our eyes opened to this truth we were like unbelievers/Gentiles and did not know God or His will.

1Th 4:3  For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality;
v. 4  that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,
v. 5  not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;

As long as we are carnal minded, we do not know God and we don't pray according to His will and therefore we do not receive what we ask for.

James 4:3  You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

But when we receive the Holy Spirit, it begins to teach us, so we begin to learn what His will is.

John 14:26  But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.

Paul prayed that the believers "may be filled with the knowledge of His will," because they do not have it to begin with. 

Col 1:8  who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.
Col 1:9  For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

Being "filled with the knowledge of His will," and so to be formed into His image.  So now by Christ indwelling you are being given the "wisdom and spiritual understanding" to ask in His will.  But this is a process and we have to learn and grow in this spiritual understanding to know how to ask in His will. 

1Pe 4:1-2 Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

I hope this is of some help.

mercy, peace and love
Kat

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