When you are making plans, what do you take into consideration?
If you are wise you will consider everything you know and pray asking GOD to highlight what you need to see when making that choice.
In class on Tuesday a gal wondered if GOD preset the exact times and places (Acts 17:26) what does prayer do?
Please stay with me as we look at what the Bible says.
We are to pray at all times Ephesians 6:18 the prayers of a righteous man avails much James 5:16 Therefore we can conclude prayer is important and necessary. I Samuel 12:23 that to cease to pray for one that comes to mind is a sin against GOD.
I submit to you that considering what HE knows is also how GOD works. What does GOD know?
1 John 3:20 … God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. (The scope of HIS knowledge is infinite/ that is vastly beyond furthest the star (Isaiah 55:8-9).
1 Kings 8:39 … whose heart You know; for You, even You only, know the hearts of all the children of men;
In the context it is quite clear that by knowing the heart of a person, GOD knows how that one will react, how he will choose and how he will pray. Psalm 139 goes deeper into this but let me just say it says GOD knows our thoughts before they are formed.
In 1 Peter 1:2 the HOLY SPIRIT moved Peter to record that by/ or according to HIS infinite foreknowledge of us and our choices that GOD made choices.
And those unchangeable choices (James 1:17) were made before the world began for Acts 15:18. Known unto GOD are all HIS works from the beginning of the world.
Do you hear what that says? It says GOD knew how HE will answer the prayer you make tomorrow before HE made the world. Being all GOD’s ways are right, the answer to your prayer is always the very best answer it can be.
(GOD is) The Rock! HIS work is perfect, For all HIS ways are just (right); A GOD of faithfulness without iniquity (injustice), Just and upright is HE (Deuteronomy 32:4 AMP)
Let’s just praise the LORD!
Hugs
Sharon
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