Does God answer prayer? Sometimes in their life everyone has an experience which makes them wonder if prayer is futile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some Good and Bad Reasons for Prayer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1 – No need to pray because whatever will be, will be. Que sera sera… Do you find yourself on this list? Comments in this thread would be greatly appreciated. Why do we pray? Does God still answer prayers? Does God answer prayer? Sometimes in their life everyone has an experience which makes them wonder if prayer is futile. Some Good and Bad Reasons for Prayer 1 – No need to pray because whatever will be, will be. Que sera sera… 2 – We pray because it is commanded but we don’t expect what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
2 – We pray because it is commanded but we don’t expect what we pray for to happen.
3 – Prayer gets my will in line with God’s. I should not expect God to do anything other than straighten out my desires to match His.
4 – God may actually answer yes to what I pray.
5 – I pray with fervor because it is my chance to communicate with God.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
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