If God Is Sovereign, Are My Prayers Pointless?

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🗓️ 6 March 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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If all of God’s plans stand, and all of his purposes come to pass, is praying for what we want pointless?

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0:00.0	If God's will prevails, is it pointless for me to pray for what I want?
0:11.5	This is a really good question from a podcast listener named Andrea.
0:15.8	Pastor John, hello, why should we pray for things that we want, happiness for ourselves
0:21.1	or healing for others, if we know in the end that God's will will be done?
0:26.7	I struggle with praying for what I want because I know in the end God's plan will prevail
0:31.1	anyways.
0:32.1	And besides, he knows better than me because he's sovereign.
0:35.6	I feel like this thought sometimes inhibits my prayer life.
0:38.9	Isn't it pointless for me to pray for what I want?
0:43.3	But then if I don't pray for what I want, what then would be the point of praying
0:49.2	anyways.
0:50.2	This is good.
0:52.1	There are so many questions to ask about prayer.
0:57.4	We can ask, what does it mean to pray according to God's will, 1 John 5, 14?
1:03.3	What does it mean to pray in the name of Jesus, John 14, 13?
1:08.9	What does it mean not to pray for the sin that leads to death, 1 John 5, 16?
1:15.5	Why is God compared to an unrighteous judge in Luke 18 when we pray or what does it mean
1:23.3	to pray without ceasing in 1 John 5, 17 or what does it mean to pray in the Holy Spirit
1:30.0	of Ephesians 6, 18 and on and on and on we could go.
1:33.1	It's not surprising.
1:34.1	It seems to me.
1:35.1	Therefore, that since prayer is one of the most stunning, amazing, astounding privileges
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