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I like Dan Phillips of Pyromaniac’s summary of what he was saying about prayer at the end of his article “Prayer and the might *not* have beens”:
Hi Gordon,
Thanks for the thoughts. The only other comment I’d make is that although our society doesn’t think this way because we can’t see prayer’s effect, praying is no different to working.
That is, the Bible says God provides our food, and yet often he provides our food by making our work effective. Similarly, God provides our food and yet often he provides our food in answer to my prayers. It’s not a one-to-one correlation in either case. But I ask a lot fewer questions about why I should work than about why I should pray.
Praying is the way God does things in the world. He moves in the heart of his people, prompting them to ask for things that he might be kind enough to answer. I think that’s cool.
Thanks for the post.
Russell
I’d add one thing, Gordo, lover of esoteric theology that I am: that our prayers are part of God’s sovereign plan for his world.
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