136 | Why Should We Bother to Pray if God is Sovereign?
Verity by Phylicia Masonheimer
Phylicia Masonheimer
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🗓️ 15 August 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Why should we pray - and how do we start a habit of prayer? This episode is a quick introduction to your prayer practice, why it matters and what Scripture says about it.
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| 0:00.0 | It's all about relationship in Christianity. |
| 0:03.6 | It's not just, let me just throw this at the universe |
| 0:06.2 | and hope for the best. |
| 0:07.6 | God wants relationship, which is why you're going alone |
| 0:11.0 | to pray to the Father. |
| 0:12.1 | It's not so you can empty your mind, it's so you can fill your mind with the truth of God and the relationship that he offers. Hi friends and welcome back to Verity with Felicia Masonheimer. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm Felicia the founder of every woman a theologian and I'm so excited to be with you today as we talk about prayer. |
| 0:35.0 | Why should we bother to pray if God is sovereign? |
| 0:38.4 | I get some form of this question every single Monday on Instagram and I do ask anything questions and I love talking about it because |
| 0:45.8 | prayer is so essential to the Christian life but many of us feel like it's kind of a pointless |
| 0:51.6 | practice if God is just going to do what he's going to do. |
| 0:55.3 | At least that's the perspective that has been shared with me. And I understand it. Why should we |
| 1:00.3 | bother to pray if God knows everything that's going to happen? |
| 1:04.0 | Well I'm going to share my perspective on this and also walk through quite a few different |
| 1:08.4 | scriptures that talk about prayer and the nature of prayer and hopefully by the end of this |
| 1:12.0 | you'll have a little bit more information |
| 1:14.4 | to help you in your own prayer life with the Lord. |
| 1:17.6 | This is part of the beginner believer series of Verdi |
| 1:23.7 | Varyde Podcast, and we're diving into different questions that people have submitted to me |
| 1:25.6 | on how to walk out the Christian life when you're a new believer or if you've been a |
| 1:30.3 | believer for a long time. So without further ado let's look at some of these |
| 1:34.5 | passages. We're going to start in Romans 826. This passage says likewise the |
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