[Dr. Eckleburg]

I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will add fifteen years to your life. [Isa 38:5]

Do you think God was surprised by the prayer, that God did not know of the tears and that only after seeing them did He decided to add 15 years?

"But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him." -- Matthew 6:7-8

[kosta50]

Do you think God was surprised by the prayer

No. God foresees all possible scenarios. If you pray, then I give you this. If you don't then I don't. Otherwise, what would be the purpose of making Adam and Eve, if He foreknew which of the many possible scenarios was going to play out. What would be the purpose of being angry at wicked people and drowning the whole lot? Disappointment?

The point I was making was that God does intercede in our lives and He is letting us know that. If He predestined every step then there would be no need for His intervention. Things would play out as God is sitting on the sidelines so to say, and watches the movie play itself out. No, no. This is not a static, passive God. The entire Bible is God's conditional if-then offer.