Nothing wrong with prayer, for sure, but I believe our country is experiencing God’s wrath at this very moment (and we deserve it). Not sure He’s going to change His mind.
“Nothing wrong with prayer, for sure, but I believe our country is experiencing God’s wrath at this very moment (and we deserve it). Not sure He’s going to change His mind.”
I think you are correct that we are experiencing God’s wrath, and yes, we do deserve it, however, over and over in the Bible we are shown that God only wants us to love Him and to repent of our wrong headedness and evil actions, and when repentance and prayer and fasting are performed by the Righteous, He DOES listen, and DOES stay His hand.
My favorite example of this is the Jonah story. God wanted him to preach to Ninevah so that the people of Ninevah would repent. Jonah resisted doing this, and therefore it was during his dodging of God’s will that he had his misadventure with the big fish. Once Jonah got into alignment with the program, he preached and the people of Ninevah did repent, and God stayed His hand.
I strongly and truly believe that prayers of the sincere believers do have an effect on the outcome of the unfolding of events. I also believe that while there may be certain things that we may not affect, nevertheless, there can be a certain level of mitigation achieved, and those who are doing the praying may also perhaps receive a blessing that might not have been forthcoming without the prayers.