Even though prayers are not offered only to get a desired result, there is little doubt that most miracles are the result of prayer. God wants us to pray to him and ask him for things, just as any loving father and mother want their children to come to them with whatever is on their minds. But if our focus is solely on getting the outcome we want, the prayer will fail, precisely because our belief is placed in the wrong place. Its a great irony. If all we care about is the result, then we are effectively making that result our God, rather than God himself. So if we are praying to our Godthe God of resultsrather than to God himself, then we are praying to a God who is not God, and who is therefore powerless to help us.
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Eric Metaxas was American conservative talk show host. Eric Metaxas is an American author, speaker, and conservative radio host. He has written three biographies, Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery about William Wilberforce (2007), Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy about Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011), and Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World (2017). Read more on Wikipedia →
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