We've been talking about God's sovereignty in recent episodes. Does His sovereignty and

salvation make him unfair? It was last time in A.J. 2028. And we talk about God's sovereignty over our suffering next Monday in

A.B.J. 2031. Today though, should God's all sovereignty make us less prayerful since we can resign all things into his hands.

Questions from a listener named Jen.

Dear President, I have listened to asked, Pastor John for years.

The truth of your mantra that God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him

is something that resonates deep in my spirit.

My question for you is this, do you think that a person can be so satisfied in God that

it leads to prayerlessness.

What I mean is a circumstance in which you feel so confident and satisfied in God's purposes and designs in your life and others, that you lack a desire to petition him.

Even when things seem to be going wrong, I tend to feel deeply that praise rather than

petition is on my heart.

I often praise the Lord in

Thanksgiving, which I consider be a kind of prayer, but rarely ask or seek

intervention from God. In 1st Samuel, when Israel begs God for a king, God warns them against their prayer, but as they

persist he eventually tells Samuel to listen to the people and give them a king.

That's for Samuel 8 verses 7 and 22. So prayers can

can mask desires that are opposed to God's desires. That haunts me.

Would what I pray to change even be a holy desire to begin with.

Bottom line, I guess I feel safer and happier accepting in faith

whatever the Lord brings about in my life rather than asking for him to change those things.

Is this a wrong approach to life? Well yes it is a wrong approach to life but

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