Written June 6, 2009

How is God's will affected by our prayers? Can  we change ones preordained life through the power of prayer? The scripture says, "All the day ordained for me were written in your book before of of them came to be." Psalm 139:16. If this is so then if someone's days are preordained to only be 56 then how can prayer change that?

I have prayed about this question with no answer revealed. it feels as though God wants me to search relentlessly for the answer. I have dug through scriptures and I have posed the question so many time to others with no real answers, that I no longer ask for fear of bringing doubt to someone else. My faith has not been altered but my prayer life has. I know that pray is an essential part of out personal relationship with God and our closeness with Him depends upon it. But how are our prayers answered when it is His will for someone to experience a hardship in order for them to become the person He has planned. How does a person die when so many are praying for him to live?

The scripture says, "I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven. For where two or three come together in my name there am I with them" Matthew 18:19-20

Thy will be done.

Written June 28, 2009

No we cannot change God's will.. we are to pray only for his will not for what is pleasing to ourselves. And that our suffering is a gift not a punishment.


Written May 1, 2012

We are to trust our Father. We are to trust that he will not harm us with this life. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths. Proverbs 3:5-6. We are to trust that his will is for good and what is best.
For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.  Jeremiah 29:11