Denny answers:
If you disobey God’s command to pray, God will still do His perfect plan. But you will likely miss out on seeing Him work.
God commands Christians to pray (Luke 18:1; 1 Thessalonians 5:17). We pray to praise God, confess our sin, and ask for His help. God uses prayer to work His perfect plan. He does not have to use prayer, but He chooses to use prayer.
For example, Cornelius prayed to God, and God sent Peter to tell Cornelius how he could believe in Jesus and be saved from his sin (Acts 10:1-48).
God uses prayer to bring His plan to pass. God’s plan always happens because He is all-powerful.
If God’s plan always happens, why should we pray and ask God for things? Won’t He do His own plan, even if we don’t pray? If we disobey God’s command to pray, God will still do His plan. But then we may not know He worked, so we will not be able to thank Him and trust Him more.
Bible Truth
- “You do not have, because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures” (James 4:2b-3).
- “Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops” (James 5:17-18).
- “The Lord Almighty has sworn, ‘Surely, as I have planned, so it will be, and as I have purposed, so it will stand’” (Isaiah 14:24).
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