A Twisted Crown of Thorns ®

WHY BOTHER PRAYING? A very good question seeing that many people erroneously would like to give a paper thin excuse that God has already set in place what He would like to happen and it is useless to pray or vote in times of elections.

Why bother to pray? God knows what we have need of before we ask (Matthew 6:8) He declares in the most definite of language,  And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear. (Isaiah 65:24)

Do we quit praying? Do you cancel the prayer meeting in our church? Do we refuse to go through all that getting alone privately into the closet and struggling against the flesh and the devil and all the distractions, when God knows everything and has already ordained the outcome? Do we ignore the prayer cards of missionaries with their well ordered and specified  little lists of prayer requests? Do we throw away your books like EM Bounds on “Power through Prayer” and have no regard for the great prayer warriors whose praise in the churches? No we don’t.

We pray because God ordains the means as well as the end.  We obey the precepts to pray, noting the additional instructions like “ought always” (Luke 18:1) and “without ceasing” (1 Thessalonians 5:17. We note the great examples which are given in Scripture (Acts 12:5/2 Thessalonians 1:3) and the great promises (James 5:17) and we pray.

Read More. [Excerpt from Why Bother? By Colin Maxwell]