Our pastor has been doing a series on this verse titled: Live the Bible. He talked about how we have to believe, we have to follow, we have to have fellowship and we have to pray. Today was on prayer. Unfortunately, Baby R was restless enough that I missed most of the message. (Yes, I know you took her T-L, but I was still in and out with her before that. ha ha)
I got the last part of his message and that was to encourage us to pray for each other. Pray in front of our children, for our children. Or as children, to pray for our parents, in front of our parents.
He said (closer to the beginning of the message) that prayer works. I have an example of answered prayer in my extended family. My SIL and I have babies 6 weeks apart. She ended up getting an infection, being on antibiotics, and really feeling quite miserable. Going on 8 weeks after birth, she is going for more tests and an ultrasound or two. Then I get a facebook message asking for prayer for surgery and all that would entail with a toddler, a new baby, a dh in school, etc. I wrote her back stating that I would be praying that this situation would clear up and the surgery would not be required because although they deem a D&C a minor surgery, surgery is surgery regardless! We are praising the Lord that she passed whatever was in there that needed to get out and that with the continued anitbiotics, she is more and more her active self! Prayer works.
I've struggled with prayer. I don't understand why we need to pray when God does as He wants, when He knows everything that will or has happened. To me, prayer seems redundant and pointless. That being said, did my prayers change the situation with my SIL or would she have cleared up when she did if I hadn't have prayed the way that I did?? And yet, Jesus taught his disciples to pray so doing so must be an important part of our relationship with God. And so, even though I don't understand the in and outs and whys (I was hoping the message today would answer some of those, but I missed it, so I don't know if it did or not) I pray; I use prayer as communication with a friend; I'm just talkin' as I would, in a sense, to J or T-L or another close friend.
What are your thoughts on prayer??
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If you don't get a comment from Kirk on this I do have to let you know that when we were down in AL we attended one of their evening home services and Kirk was sharing on a book that was about this very same issue (which was a not so pleasant discussion with those of us that were 50 or more) Anyway you may want to find out what the book was from Kirk and read it, I personally have my own view (which to me is not different from what the discussion held - which I think everyone was saying the same thing just in different ways!) but I'm not one to go that deep into theologies. (Like them but not that deep.) To me God answers pray when He knows we need to see answered pray and more so when He needs to be glorified. (Okay it goes a bit deeper than that but that's what pacifies me.)
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