Here I go thinking again...
I had an experience last week when I was praying for something that had already transpired, though I did not yet know the outcome. I stopped myself, asking, "What is the use? It is already over with. What is the point of praying about it now?"
I have done this many times. For instance, when I was in college, I would pray that I did well on a test after I had taken it. Sometimes it worked. On one particular test, I knew for sure that there were several questions that I hadn't a clue how to answer. On one question, I even made up a word that didn't exist, just so I would have something written down. I prayed about the test all day, and God somehow made the teacher get distracted during the grading or something, because I got an "A". I even got points for the word I made up!
So, back to last week. When I asked myself whether it mattered that I prayed after the event, I had a revelation: God is not constrained by time as we are. He is in the past, the present, and the future all at the same time. So, when I am praying about something that has already happened, God is there. He is also there in the past when the event happened, and he knows that I will pray about it in the "future". He is all-powerful and has the ability to affect change and answer my prayer before I ask it, because to Him, I have already asked it in the future, where is also resides. Pretty deep thought for a blonde, huh?
So, even though I still have many, many unanswered questions about prayer, I know that it doesn't make any difference when I pray, only that I pray. And as to my prayer? It was answered.
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Sometimes I like to think along similar terms about the Lord God as you have in your post. In the NIV Bible Revelations 1:4, it partly reads: “Grace and peace to you from him who is, and who was, and who is to come…..” In the example of your test that had not yet been graded, I suppose God could have changed your exam answers after the fact had it been in His interest to do so. But for God to time travel into the past and change circumstances to meet an end might indicate He had not planned things out too well in the first place. God was, and is and is to come. The “was” is past, done, finished, completed and so forth. The “is” is present and of course “to come” is future. It is difficult for me to say that God is in the past, still occupying the past. His completed work is in the past. The results of His past work are evident today, but He exists in the present now and will continue to exist forever in the future. Thanks for writing about this interesting concept.
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Yes, I guess prayer is very important and has great power in it. Yeah. Gos keep hold of every single prayer we make. And Listen and Answer to it. According to his Will. As We are his Children^_^!!! YAY!LoLANyway Thanks for the prayer about my friend's leg. ANd by the Way. Xin Yi is my friend.LoL. I think she saw tour comment...haha~thanks!
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