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What We Truly Believe About Prayer, Part 5 (TMF:2516)

Monday, December 30, 2024
Peace to Live By: What We Truly Believe About Prayer, Part 5 (TMF:2516) - Daniel Litton
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       Many are not comfortable in believing that God is open to the thoughts, ideas, wishes, and desires of humans. They may say, “Humans are too evil to desire anything good” or “God would not be persuaded by humans because humans are often driven by the flesh.” Or, it could be said, “A person really doesn’t know what good they should pray for because they don’t know what they don’t know, but God knows.” And all of this brings up debated things about the character of God and people. If God can be persuaded by a human, then how can God be really in control? And if a person can present something to God that is good, then how does that work? Doesn’t God know best in every circumstance so as to make anything that is presented to him to be pointless? Trying not to get too off track with this, the point we want to note is that Paul and Timothy prayed. That’s what the text says. And not only did they pray, but it says they did not cease to pray, as if the quantity also matters. We know the quality matters, as Paul is about to show us in what he prayed for regarding the Colossian believers.