If God knows and controls everything, why pray?

Does prayer really change anything?

What's the underlying assumed definition of prayer in the question?

It's really only talking about one kind of prayer,

the prayer of supplication or the prayer of intercession.

How does God's sovereignty in any way cast a shadow over a prayer of adoration?

How would God's knowledge or his determinate counsel affect a shadow over a prayer of adoration.

How would God's knowledge or his determinate counsel affect in any way the prayer of adoration?

The only thing it should do is incite us to a greater vocabulary and a greater capacity

for expressing our affection and adoration for who he is.

So even if God knows what I'm going to say before I say it, how does that affect the beauty of my adoration?

I'll be in a conversation with my wife and my wife and I know each other.

I'm convinced as well as two people can know each other in this world. And she knows what I think before I think it. She knows what I'm going to say before I say it. I know what she's going to say before she says. And I know that I can do that with Dr. Gerster before he opens his mouth, I know what he's going to say.

And yet I still ask him what he thinks.

I say, Dr. Gerster, what do you think about this?

And I know what he's going to say. And yet I still ask him what he thinks.

I say, Dr. Gerster, what do you think about this?

And I know very well.

And before even here, says, I could just take his place to say, here's what he's going to say,

guys.

Don't you know, you know, and all that.

But I still want to hear him say.

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