Exactly What Good is Prayer?

No wonder some people have difficulty with prayer—“I’m not going to God as a heavenly Santa Claus with my list,” and—“I feel too guilty going to God now when I ignored him when I wasn’t in such need.” Yet the Jesus of the Bible never turns anyone aside– “What is it you want me to do for you?” C.S. Lewis wrote about prayer “I don’t pray to try to change God’s mind and get what I want.  I pray to God because it changes me, I see the world differently—and can find God in it.” These days are difficult financially—and when the markets define our net worth, who wouldn’t feel anxious! With prayer, we open our world beyond ourselves to God….we trade in the markets for a Kingdom, with the economy of grace. I pray it changes us to have confidence, with the words of the prayer, “where true riches are to be found.” Larry