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NASB | Luke 11:43 "Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the chief seats in the synagogues and the respectful greetings in the market places. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Luke 11:43 "Woe to you Pharisees, because you love the best seats in the synagogues and to be respectfully greeted in the market places. |
Bible Question: Why do we have to pray when God already knows what we are going to pray? |
Bible Answer: Two main reasons that come to my mind immediately: 1. God has decreed things as answers to prayer. In other words, our omniscient God, knowing from eternity past when and what we are going to sincerely pray, has sovereignly ordained that some of the things that will come to pass in time and space will be answers to those prayers. In other words, in some amazing way, God has worked the sincere prayers of his people into His plan for human history. 2. Prayer demonstrates our utter and continuous dependence on God. Our "going through the motions" of praying itself is a means by which we rely completely and consciously on God as the giver of all good things, the One in whom we live and move and have our being. That is why we are told to pray without ceasing (1 Thess 5:17). The more we pray, the more we demonstrate that we can only do all things through Him who gives us strength (Phil 4:13). A parable about persistent prayer can be found in Luke 11:5-13. The point of the parable is that even an unfriendly man will respond to the persistent begging of a neighbor. If that is the case, how much more will our loving Father delight in responding to our persistent praying? God does not need our prayers any more than He needs anything else from us. Prayer is a gift from God to us, a means of grace by which we can present our requests before the Father on account of what Christ has done for us. What a blessed gift it is that God has condescended to let His creation communicate with Him, to confess our need for Him and to have the Holy Spirit perfectly praying alongside us as we pray! (Romans 8:26) Hope this helps a little! --Joe! |
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