Prayer and Providence
Posted by: Simon Brading
Filed under: Must Reads, Theology
The biblical doctrine of prayer is not in contradiction of its doctrine of providence, but in correspondence with it.
Prayer is among God’s ordained means to God’s ordained ends: He who has purposed to accomplish His will has also purposed to do so through and with the prayer of his people.
Prayer often seems to us the weakest of all our works and sometimes the most irrelevant. But the power of prayer is, quite simply, the power of the divine response to prayer; it finds its power in the strength of his love, as the power of the baby’s cry lies in the devotion of the baby’s parent. Its relevance is asserted by God who tells us to pray.
Peter Lewis
The Living God
P 312.