Real-Time Issues in Prayer. - Does God Need Our Prayers? Inst 3 -pt 1 Truths to ponder: God's Motivations.

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We are back to the paddock and to look at the question, "Does God need our prayers?"

We began with "Truths to Ponder."

Discussed our need to "rightly divide the word of God."

Today, we examine the dangers of assigning to God any motivation He has not expressly stated in His word.

His thoughts are not our thoughts:

"For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Neither are your ways My ways," declares the LORD. 9 "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts."

Isaiah 55:8-9

And for the infinite ignorance we have of all He has not declared to us, we have:

"The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may observe all the words of this law."

Deuteronomy 29:29

Of what we do know:

He does everything for His own glory.:

"Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction. 11 "For My own sake, for My own sake, I will act; For how can My name be profaned? And My glory I will not give to another."

Isaiah 48:8-11

His love for His creation motivated our redemption.

"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life."

John 3:16

Our So What:

Boldly, with confidence and authority, we proclaim all that is plain in the Scriptures.

We are to humbly put our confidence in His character in what has not been revealed. His character is perfect, wise, eternal, infinite, all-knowing, all-powerful, and always good.

In both, we tell the nations what God has done for our souls.\

"What a man is on his knees before God, that he is and nothing more."

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

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Season 006

Episode 36