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Throughout the Christian world, you cannot go very far without coming across someone reporting about some Church somewhere that is well-known for and yes, teaches, hesitancy when approaching the throne of grace, also known as “If it be thy will” prayer.
Without doing an exhaustive search of mainline, error-ridden statements on this, where from the confines of scripture is this wrinkle likely to have risen? My suspicion is it is a combination of 1 John 5:14 “according to His will”, and the “boast” of expectation in James 4:16.
Both of which the context is lost when the clarity of conscience was lost. That’s all. Once again, the reference please, ,
Of course, the blame is putting the novice in positions of oversight!
Thoughts?
Without doing an exhaustive search of mainline, error-ridden statements on this, where from the confines of scripture is this wrinkle likely to have risen? My suspicion is it is a combination of 1 John 5:14 “according to His will”, and the “boast” of expectation in James 4:16.
Both of which the context is lost when the clarity of conscience was lost. That’s all. Once again, the reference please, ,
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him (1 John 5:14-15).
Of course, the blame is putting the novice in positions of oversight!
Thoughts?