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THE NECESSITY OF PRAYER

3.1 The necessity questioned

1. Why or why not could we argue as follows: God knows everything;
Therefore, it is not necessary to pray?

2. Discuss the following statement: God had determined everything for me
already. My prayers will not change anything in my life.

3. Read Philippians4:6 and Psalm 8:2.

Jeremiah reminded God of His promises. Not because God forgets,
but because he forgot. God’s children forget what He promises. The
great privilege about prayer is that we know “our address” so to
speak. We know we can go to God anytime and He will listen to us.
And the more we give, or put in, the more we receive or get out.

DIGGING DEEPER

Read Jonah 3:10 and Isaiah 55:9

Were the sorrow over their sins and the repentance of Nineveh a
change of God’s eternal decree? In simpler terms, does God change
His mind? Look at the following:

God does not change. Malachi 3:6 declares, “I the LORD do not
change. So, you, O descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed.”
Similarly, James 1:17 tells us, “Every good and perfect gift is from
above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does
not change like shifting shadows.”