Welcome to Verity Podcast. I'm your host, Felicia Mason-Himer, and I am here to

teach you how to know what you believe, to live it boldly, and to communicate it

graciously for the world around you. I believe that women are ready to go

deeper in their faith than ever before, and they don't have to go to

seminary to do it. I am so glad you're here, and I hope you'll join me on this

journey because everyone in is a theologian. Hello friends, welcome back to

Verity Podcast. We took a short break this summer as we were camping and

traveling a little bit, spending time with family, but now we are back, and I'm

excited to start a new series as we finish out the summer, a mini series, if you

will, to talk about prayer and ethyology of prayer. As I've been thinking about

what episodes need to be done on Verity Podcasts in the future, I keep coming

back to this topic. I'm finding that not only do so many people in my audience

struggle with prayer, struggle to cultivate a consistent prayer life, they often

can identify the root of that prayerlessness in their theology of prayer and in

need for a robust theology behind why they pray and who they are praying to.

So I'm excited for this little mini series. I'm not sure how many episodes it will

run, maybe until we've covered all the necessary topics, but we're going to

start this week by talking about a question I've received many times, one that I

have asked in my own walk with God, which is why pray at all if God is sovereign.

Why should we pray if God is just going to do what he's going to do? If God's going to

save some people or heal some people, what's the purpose of prayer in the first place?

We're going to talk about this in this episode, and hopefully by the end of it you have

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