Subject: Please I'm looking for your opinion! |
Bible Note: Radioman2 I ask you the same question the same question I asked John, did God stop His actions because of prayer or not? Scripture says He did. Exodus 32:10-11 Now therefore, let Me alone, that My wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them. And I will make of you a great nation." [11] Then Moses pleaded with the Lord his God, and said: "Lord, why does Your wrath burn hot against Your people whom You have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? Genesis 18:20-26 And the Lord said, "Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grave, [21] I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has come to Me; and if not, I will know." [22] Then the men turned away from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham still stood before the Lord. [23] And Abraham came near and said, "Would You also destroy the righteous with the wicked? [24] Suppose there were fifty righteous within the city; would You also destroy the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous that were in it? [25] Far be it from You to do such a thing as this, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be as the wicked; far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" [26] So the Lord said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes." Numbers 11:2 Then the people cried out to Moses, and when Moses prayed to the Lord, the fire was quenched. Numbers 21:7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, "We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you; pray to the Lord that He take away the serpents from us." So Moses prayed for the people. Deut. 9:20 And the Lord was very angry with Aaron and would have destroyed him; so I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. 2 Samuel 24:17 Then David spoke to the Lord when he saw the angel who was striking the people, and said, "Surely I have sinned, and I have done wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Let Your hand, I pray, be against me and against my father's house." The verse you quote Malachi 3:6 "For I, the LORD, do not change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed. Does this mean God does not let our prayers effect Him or does it mean His basic nature never changes? I beleive God's nature His essence, His very being never changes but He does change His actions as He witnesses our actions and reactions. Immutable does not mean you never react it mean's you always react the same way. For instance when David made a plead for his people God was touched with compassion and stayed His anger. Just as He did when Moses pleaded for his people. Had God not been imutable He very well may have reacted differently in each case. If we really believe God's mind is made up why bother praying, just let it happen, whatever it is. God celarly said we have not because we ask not. In other words God wants us to have things but He is waiting for us to ask and when we do it gives it to us. There are two distinct actions here waiting and giving and God moves (changes) from one to the other by our action. EdB |