"Your Father knows what you need before you ask him."
Matthew 6:8
I love this today because it opens up the conversation about prayer. What purpose is prayer if God already knows what we need? (Notice how it says God knows what we NEED not what we want!) God knows what we want too, but that's another Heidi-Gram! Today, this got me really pondering prayer. Do we pray with the purpose of changing God's mind? Like, God was going to have one thing happen, but then, as a result of our prayer, God decides to have something else happen? I struggle with that. I think our prayer is for our internal benefit, not so much about
changing the outcome of events. God doesn't need our prayer, but we do. We need to come before God and hold out our hands and ask for the REAL things God gives us: strength to endure the calamity we are going through, or wisdom to weigh out our decision to make a good choice. I don't think God makes things happen as much as God gifts us with the ability to live with the things that happen. In this
reading from Matthew, Jesus teaches the disciples the Lord's Prayer. "Give us this day our daily bread...forgive us our
trespasses, as we forgive those who
trespass against us." And the most important part, "Your will be done." Love, heidi
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