Does Prayer really work?

A billboard ad outside of MetLife Stadium during last Sunday's Super Bowl game, paid for by the American Atheists organization, declared in football jargon that prayer doesn't work.   Does prayer work?  This was the topic for our Sunday School lesson this past week.

Often the answer to our prayers are not what we want or expect. God may say No or Wait and this disappoints us, but God knows us better than we know ourselves and he only wants what is good for us.  God wants fellowship with us. Understanding this and making prayer a regular habit deepens our faith so we can pray boldly knowing God's  will .

When you pray:

Come with a quiet passion to seek God and His Power and focus your mind on God .  "Be still, and know that I am God."  Psalm 46:10

Trusting in the truth that you already have is the best way to prepare yourself to receive more.   " Blessed is the man whose trust is in the Lord..."  Jeremiah 17:7

Find a quiet place and read something beautiful and pure an worthy of praise. "...in humility receive the word implanted which is able to save your souls."    James l:21

Ask that God will give you a receptive  heart.  "I will give them a heart to know me."  Jeremiah 24:

Yes, God does answer Prayer.





 



We are told to pray for God's will to be done. 



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