I've heard it said that God doesn't answer prayers/ requests. Of course He's not a gum ball machine. But why pray at all if He doesn't care?
"Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, 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 the petitions that we have asked of Him."I've heard it said that God doesn't answer prayers/ requests. Of course He's not a gum ball machine. But why pray at all if He doesn't care?
"Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, 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 the petitions that we have asked of Him."
— 1 John 5:14-15 (NKJV)
We pray because we are in a relationship with Jesus, also he told us to pray.But why pray at all if He doesn't care?
Why does He sometimes answer "No."?
That will be revealed to you in His time. But sometimes a No isn't really a No, but rather a call for patience.Why does He sometimes answer "No."?
I've heard it said that God doesn't answer prayers/ requests. Of course He's not a gum ball machine. But why pray at all if He doesn't care?
I would disagree that God doesn't answer prayer, however, is not just about asking God for something. It is also about praising God and Psalms 22:3 says that God inhabits the praises of His people. It is also about repentance because in the Lord's Prayer, after hollowing God's name first, we are instructed to ask for forgiveness for our sins, though sometimes we might need to repent before we get to the praise. In Matthew 5:23-24, we are instructed to become reconciled to our brother or sister before if they have something against us before we offer a gift to God. Psalms 51 can be a good one to make our prayer. Prayer is also about acknowledging God's authority and trustworthiness and continuing to place ourselves in submission to His lordship and guidance. Intercession is a huge part of prayer and there are many examples in the Bible interceding for others through prayer, such as Jesus in John 17:1-26. To understate it, there lots of people who need prayer. Prayer is also about pouring our our heart in supplication in sharing our needs and desires with God. Payer is also about equipping us to to serve God by asking Him to fill us with His Spirit to give us opportunities to do His will. Lastly, giving thanks should be part of every aspect of our prayer.
However, even if it we don't understand why we should be praying, the bottom line is that we should be praying because God commanded us to do so, because that is the example Jesus set for us to follow, and because we have faith in God about how we should live.
See, you are a bit wrong here. I don't want to be rude or anything but I would like to fix one thing you sayed.
God is not a Commander or big General wich comand us to pray. God gived us free will and choice. We don't pray for God. He don't become bigger with our prays.
But we become closer to him. In pray we come closer to him. That's why we pray. Not cause of command. If it was because of some law, I'm first who would not pray. It is just because on that way we got closer to Him, we talk to Him, we says our problems to Him and search for His help and support when it is hard. And than for thanks when it's not. God does not need our prays. We do. We are choosing our paths and praying or not. Not Him, he likes our prays cause he is able to save us by them.
See, God is love. Pure and clean love. That is only description of God. And only description of Love is God. He would like us to be happy. If pray is just something you must do, some command... Than you never felt it... It is talk to God...
See, a lot of peoples use Bible just as book and read it just like that. You can't use it like book and just use quotes from it. You need to see a bigger picture. That are not commands, that are suggestions for better life with God. What if I let's say quote this "I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a trap and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner she will ensnare." Ecclesiastes 7:26I have not said that God needs our praise or that we pray for God. However, God does command us to pay so that we can be closer to Him:
Matthew 26:41 Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Mark 13:18 Pray that it may not happen in winter.
Luke 18:1 And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.
2 Timothy 2:1 First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people,
Ephesians 6:18 praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end, keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints,
Romans 12:12 Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.