If God is Good, Why Do We Need to Pray?

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Christianity, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 3 February 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Today, Fr. Mike delves into this age old question.

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0:00.0	This might be a video I've done before.
0:02.1	Like so much so that I think I might even have made the same points.
0:04.9	I don't know.
0:05.9	Here we go.
0:06.9	How many of you have felt the mic smith?
0:16.6	And this is a sense of resistance.
0:18.0	So I get this question a lot.
0:21.0	The question is, if God is good, then why do I need to pray?
0:26.1	Because if what I'm praying for is good,
0:29.2	then he already wants to give it to me.
0:30.8	Or give it to whoever else I'm praying for.
0:32.9	So if God is good, why should we pray?
0:34.6	God knows everything.
0:35.4	Why should we pray?
0:36.2	Basically, what good does prayer do?
0:37.8	No, a lot of times the answer I got growing up was good answers.
0:43.2	But it's only the first part of a multi-partied, multi-partied,
0:46.1	multifaceted answer.
0:47.3	The first part was, well, prayer doesn't change God.
0:49.2	It changes you, which makes sense because God doesn't change.
0:52.3	God doesn't change his mind.
0:53.5	He was going to do one thing.
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