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Pls join Dr Will this coming Sunday February 16, 2025 as he preaches “ Take It To the Lord in Prayer “ Luke 18:1–8
Does God intercede at our urging? Does God need to be reminded or prodded into action to heal and protect. “Does God stick a finger in, if only now and then? Or is praying for things and events, for rain and healing—delusional?”
Prayer always raises fundamental theological questions .
In our text , Jesus told a parable once about persistent prayer, about his disciples “need to pray always and not to lose heart.” It was about an aloof, harsh judge and a poor widow who kept coming to him for justice in a lawsuit she had filed. He ignored her, but she persisted. She bothered him, nagged, badgered, and finally he gave in and rendered a favorable judgment. “Will not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry to him day and night?”
Jesus believes that God will answer prayers for justice.
On another occasion Jesus told a story about a man who finally gives his neighbor three loaves of bread at midnight because of the neighbor’s persistent asking. “Ask and it will be given you,” he said. And then to clarify, “If you know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him.”
Recently, I sent shockwaves to some of my students when I declared that prayer doesn’t work , but prayer helps .” In fact I am writing a book on this very subject . I am of the belief that prayer is not a bargaining tool with God to get what we want .
The invitation to pray, to bring to God the contents of our hearts, is the natural expression of the most radical notion: namely that God knows us by name and cares about us and loves us and has come among us in Jesus Christ. The promise is not that we will get what we want when we pray, but that in the asking, the honest expression of our deepest desires and needs and longings and hopes, God transforms our desires and somehow gives us not what we want but what we need.
Dr. Willy L Mafuta, Ph.D., Th.D. Senior Pastor, Hopewell United Methodist Church, Hopewell, NJ 08525 www.hopewellmethodist.org

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