"If we are really convinced that prayer changes the way God acts, and that God does bring about remarkable changes in the world in response to prayer, as Scripture repeatedly teaches that He does, then we would pray more than we do. If we pray little, it is probably because we do not really believe that prayer accomplished much at all." (Wayne Grudem, Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine p. 337.)
Regardless of your thoughts on God's sovereignty and/or the concept of Open Theism (read this if you are not familiar...considered a modern heresy by many evangelical scholars), you cannot deny the gravity of this statement.
What are your thoughts?
right on man...any honest reader of the Bible would uphold God's Sovereignty over His creation, but yet uphold the power of prayer from the saints.
Posted by: Paul | May 21, 2009 at 05:37 PM