Comments on: Why Pray? http://notes-from-offcenter.com/2008/08/01/why-pray/ Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:28:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Heath http://notes-from-offcenter.com/2008/08/01/why-pray/comment-page-1/#comment-1827 Heath Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:59:25 +0000 http://notes-from-offcenter.com/?p=439#comment-1827 Prayer in fact does change things and I believe that God does change is mind. Scripture says that God changes his mind and is a participant in time. Though he is eternal, God experiences duration, and as such is capable of announcing that a nation will be raised up and equally capabale of relenting of that plan when the nation does evil in His sight. I pray with the exact opposite expectation that you describe. Because I believe that God can and will change things in response to the prayers of righteous people... More on my thoughs here: http://www.heathcountryman.com/2008/03/god-does-not-change.html Found you on Christian Carnival... will check back! Prayer in fact does change things and I believe that God does change is mind.

Scripture says that God changes his mind and is a participant in time. Though he is eternal, God experiences duration, and as such is capable of announcing that a nation will be raised up and equally capabale of relenting of that plan when the nation does evil in His sight.

I pray with the exact opposite expectation that you describe. Because I believe that God can and will change things in response to the prayers of righteous people…

More on my thoughs here:
http://www.heathcountryman.com/2008/03/god-does-not-change.html

Found you on Christian Carnival… will check back!

]]> By: Heath http://notes-from-offcenter.com/2008/08/01/why-pray/comment-page-1/#comment-1900 Heath Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:59:25 +0000 http://notes-from-offcenter.com/?p=439#comment-1900 Prayer in fact does change things and I believe that God does change is mind.<br><br>Scripture says that God changes his mind and is a participant in time. Though he is eternal, God experiences duration, and as such is capable of announcing that a nation will be raised up and equally capabale of relenting of that plan when the nation does evil in His sight.<br><br>I pray with the exact opposite expectation that you describe. Because I believe that God can and will change things in response to the prayers of righteous people...<br><br>More on my thoughs here:<br><a href="http://www.heathcountryman.com/2008/03/god-does-not-change.html">http://www.heathcountryman.com/2008/03/god-does...</a><br><br>Found you on Christian Carnival... will check back! Prayer in fact does change things and I believe that God does change is mind.

Scripture says that God changes his mind and is a participant in time. Though he is eternal, God experiences duration, and as such is capable of announcing that a nation will be raised up and equally capabale of relenting of that plan when the nation does evil in His sight.

I pray with the exact opposite expectation that you describe. Because I believe that God can and will change things in response to the prayers of righteous people…

More on my thoughs here:
http://www.heathcountryman.com/2008/03/god-does...

Found you on Christian Carnival… will check back!

]]> By: Alan http://notes-from-offcenter.com/2008/08/01/why-pray/comment-page-1/#comment-1809 Alan Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:01:10 +0000 http://notes-from-offcenter.com/?p=439#comment-1809 Since I don't really pray, I probably have no business contributing to this topic, but I have given it a bit of thought in the past. I have a suspicion that religious experience is grounded in human experience in such a way that those of us who are not religious can none the less find a correlation or a sympathetic note in their own experience. In this way, I conceive of prayer as an expression of hope, and especially with the experience of having exhausted all means to an end and having only hope left. I am reminded of the atheist who, while trying to start her car, was overheard mumbling "come on, spaghetti monster, come on". Since I don't really pray, I probably have no business contributing to this topic, but I have given it a bit of thought in the past. I have a suspicion that religious experience is grounded in human experience in such a way that those of us who are not religious can none the less find a correlation or a sympathetic note in their own experience. In this way, I conceive of prayer as an expression of hope, and especially with the experience of having exhausted all means to an end and having only hope left.

I am reminded of the atheist who, while trying to start her car, was overheard mumbling "come on, spaghetti monster, come on".

]]> By: Alan http://notes-from-offcenter.com/2008/08/01/why-pray/comment-page-1/#comment-1901 Alan Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:01:10 +0000 http://notes-from-offcenter.com/?p=439#comment-1901 Since I don't really pray, I probably have no business contributing to this topic, but I have given it a bit of thought in the past. I have a suspicion that religious experience is grounded in human experience in such a way that those of us who are not religious can none the less find a correlation or a sympathetic note in their own experience. In this way, I conceive of prayer as an expression of hope, and especially with the experience of having exhausted all means to an end and having only hope left.<br><br><br>I am reminded of the atheist who, while trying to start her car, was overheard mumbling "come on, spaghetti monster, come on". Since I don't really pray, I probably have no business contributing to this topic, but I have given it a bit of thought in the past. I have a suspicion that religious experience is grounded in human experience in such a way that those of us who are not religious can none the less find a correlation or a sympathetic note in their own experience. In this way, I conceive of prayer as an expression of hope, and especially with the experience of having exhausted all means to an end and having only hope left.

I am reminded of the atheist who, while trying to start her car, was overheard mumbling "come on, spaghetti monster, come on".

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