What is Prayer? By Greg Laurie Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance, but laying hold of His willingness! It’s not getting my will in heaven but getting God’s will on earth. Martin Luther said, “By our praying, we are instructing ourselves more than Him.” “Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him” (1 John 5:14–15 NKJV). Nothing lies outside the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God. God only answers the requests which He inspires. Prayer is surrender—surrender to the will of God and cooperation with that will. It’s like being on a boat, and I throw the boathook to the shore and pull. Do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but aligning my will to the will of God.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 00:50:53 +0000
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