In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on In Touch, Part 3 of My Assurance, God is in control.

Does our prayer influence God?

If I pray long enough and strongly enough and intentionally enough, could

I possibly change God's mind to get him to do something that I really want him to do?

And in fact, if God knows everything has all power and it shows them to do certain things

and his policy is to please himself,

what difference does it make whether I pray or not? In fact, does it make any difference whether

we go to him in prayer, bringing our petitions and our desires? If he already knows what he's going

to do, how he's going to do it, when he's going to do it, what

difference does it make whether we pray or not?

Well, that's what I want to talk about in this message, and this is the third message

in our series entitled My Assurance, God is in Control.

And I want you to turn to that 103rd Psalm that we have read several times because in this

passage he states that he is indeed

the sovereign ruler over all this universe and over all mankind.

So if that be true, then the whole issue is what part does our prayer play in God's

big scheme of things in his plan for our life, the lives of others,

and his great kingdom, if he indeed is in control. So he says in this 19th verse of the 103rd Psalm,

the Lord has established his throne in the heavens and his sovereignty rules overall.

Bless the Lord you, his angels, mighty in strength, who perform his word,

obeying the voice of his word.

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