The Meanings of Prayer Part 2

My first answer was this.

I would think that prayer is almost a comfort for us. It can humble us, make us want to praise him every second of every day. When we pray, and what we’re praying for comes about, we praise God. But when it doesn’t come around, I would hope that Christians will say, “It’s just not Gods time or his will.” I have said that, but I have also been a grumpypants about it too sometimes. Why? I’m human.
But you know, later on, I know that maybe that wouldn’t have worked, or now I would not that here/there.

I talked to my mom about it and she turned around and said over her shoulder, “I know someone who can answer that.”
I had no clue what she meant =}
She handed me the book Now, That’s A Good Question by RC Sproul.
I looked up prayer in the index and started reading. I like reading rather then debating in real life. With a book you can stop, think about it for as long as you want, and then answer it in your head, from there you can polish it up and reform it to a way someone can understand and make a dimes worth of sense. In real life, there is no “pause” button (regretfully).


So here are some of RC’s answers that helped me.

Is God confused, stumbling through all the different options-“should I do this? Should I not do that?” And does he decide upon one course of action and then think “Well, maybe that’s not a good idea after all”, (that would be Lib) and change his mind? Obviously God is omniscient: God is wise. God is eternal in his perspective and in his full knowledge of every thing. So we don’t change God’s mind. But prayer changes things. It changes us.
And there are times in which God waits for us to ask him in the glorious process of bringing his will to pass here on earth.

So I read this in the book and said, "Hey that's what I said, only he said it in a more muter manner. Oh well."

I still want to hear your feedback, Thank you to all who have responded and taken up this question.

-Libby

PS

There is more to come.