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To: Forest Keeper

Gamecock is exactly right, not of our own GOODNESS

So, when you pray,FK, is it NOT of your own goodness or preferring the good of others to the good of yourself?

Do you think God needs our prayer to build up His power? ... Or do you think we need prayer because we desire to live in His love?

10,079 posted on 10/29/2007 6:13:59 PM PDT by stfassisi ("Above all gifts that Christ gives his beloved is that of overcoming self"St Francis Assisi)

To: stfassisi; Gamecock

So, when you pray,FK, is it NOT of your own goodness or preferring the good of others to the good of yourself?

I do have my own will, but I do not have my own goodness. When I pray for what is good, i.e. what is in accordance with God's will, then it is God's grace working in me, not of myself:

1 Cor 15:10 : But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them — yet not I , but the grace of God that was with me.

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Do you think God needs our prayer to build up His power?

No, God does not need anything from us .......... EVER. :)

Or do you think we need prayer because we desire to live in His love?

Sure. The God-planted desire to grow in Him leads us to pray to Him. We need prayer to grow.

10,189 posted on 10/31/2007 1:16:01 PM PDT by Forest Keeper (It is a joy to me to know that God had my number, before He created numbers.)

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