CHAPTER 1 Prayer and the Sovereignty of God John D. Hannah If God is sovereign, why should Christians pray? This is one of the perennial questions inquiring Christian minds often reflect on or by which they are troubled. If God is sovereign, is not prayer a superfluous activity, or at best an exercise in meditation or some form of inspiring soliloquy? The question of the tension between solicitations to prayer and the presupposition of absolute sovereignty is but a harbinger of numerous other difficulties
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