WHY PRAY IF GOD ALREADY KNOWS WHAT WILL HAPPEN?

 

WHY PRAY IF GOD ALREADY KNOWS WHAT WILL HAPPEN?

What an extraordinary question. Prayer is a conversations to God. It's true that God definitely knows all that will occur for the rest of eternity. He knows the large occasions and the little snapshots of everyone's lives, and nothing is outside His control. So it's a mistake to consider prayer the manner in which we change God's perspective or alter His direction in a circumstances or situations.

Psalm 115:3 (NIV) even tells us, “Our God is in heaven; He does whatever pleases Him.”

Prayer is a process through which we figure out how to trust God. He pays attention to us persistently. He views our requests in a serious way. He considers everything with regards to the master plan only He can see.

If God can read your mind, why He is concerned about you conversing with Him? Because prayer is one of the primary ways you foster a connection with God. In prayer, you're conversing with Him, not just simply to Him.

Through prayer, you foster a trusting relationship with God. Over time, you also figure out how to perceive His voice as He addresses to you. The Bible unmistakably shows Him deciding to act in response to the prayers of His people.

God invites you to pray in all circumstances. Prayer is essential to the way He transforms you, and the Bible encourages you that your prayers can have a powerful effect in the world. When you pray, You recognize that you are not God. When you pray,  you gain strength from God Himself. Prayer is a way of inviting God to join you in life’s struggles. When you pray, you realize the world does not begin and end with you. When you pray, you surrender control to somebody else. When you pray, you communicate your real feelings about a situation. When you pray, you trust that God is with you. When you pray, you feel inspired to take steps of faith.

The Bible shows God waiting to act in response to prayer.

God knows what He needs to do in the world and in our individual lives. He needs us to lean on Him in each circumstance, and He wants to change the world through us.

“If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. This is to My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be My disciples” (John 15:7-8, NIV).