The purpose for all our prayers is summed up in the statement your will be done on earth as it is in heaven (Mt 6:10b). Prayer is not an attempt to change God’s mind or bend His will to fit ours. It is not trying to talk God into doing something He would not otherwise do. Praying is seeking God’s will and complying with it. God’s purpose for your life and mine is that we be conformed to the likeness of his Son (Rom. 8:29). When we understand this, all our problems
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