A Fact About God to Consider When You Pray – His Sovereignty

No purpose of God’s can be thwarted (from Job 42:2).

Pray like this: Your will be done (Matthew 6:10).

God is always in control

We pray to the Sovereign Lord. “I send rain on one town and withhold it from another,” says the Lord. He draws up water from the oceans and pours it down as rain on the land (from Amos 4:7; 9:6).

We can pray about everything, even the weather, because God controls it.

Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility

More than forty-four thousand capable warriors, all skilled in combat and armed with shields, swords and bows, fought against their enemies. They cried out to God during the battle and he answered their prayer because they trusted in him (from 1 Chronicles 5:18-20).

God is completely in charge, but what we do matters.*

Pray, believing.

*adapted from Timothy Keller, videofeed: the gospelcoalition.org/2014.

God’s in Charge

She pleaded with her husband, saying, “Give me children, or I’ll die.”

He responded,”Am I God? He’s the one who has kept you from having children.”

Later we’re told, “God answered her prayers by enabling her to have children (from Genesis 30:1-22).”

Talk with the Lord about your desires, your longings, your needs. He’s the one who can and will do something about them.

 

 

 

Prayer shows God’s Sovereignty

It does not rain at this time of year, but I will ask the Lord to send thunder and rain today. So Samuel called to the Lord and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day (from 1 Samuel 12:17-18).

Prayer shows God controls everything, even the weather.