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Praying Surrendered, Part 2 (TMF:2865)

Friday, May 01, 2026
Peace to Live By: Praying Surrendered, Part 2 (TMF:2865) - Daniel Litton
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       I pray for it, but if I don’t get it, I’m still going to be okay with that outcome.” The mind ventures to think that most people don’t think like this. Most people are not surrendered with things when it comes to praying for them, and most people have expectations of God which they often feel he does not meet. There can be a sense of entitlement that rears its head, and this is especially true with the younger generations. We expect God to do this or that, and when he doesn’t do it, we put him in the doghouse. Thus, God gets blamed when it is perceived that he doesn’t do what we wanted him to do. Nevertheless, let’s stop for a moment and ask, is it true that God can simply do anything he wants to do? Let’s presume for a moment (because we obviously don’t think it’s true that God wanted to) that God did in fact want to answer our prayer how we prayed for it. Can God just do anything even when he wants to?