When is prayer NOT effective?

[Timmy]

Originally Posted by votivesoul

A reflection of His desire in the face of human stubborn willfulness. Just goes to show how free and independent we all are and can be that not even the Lord can have His own prayer for us answered.

And yet, there will come a day, when He comes through those clouds that echad will be achieved by those faithful few who submitted to His will and not their own, in this area (and all others).

The Mormons?

[Carl]

I recently read a book "Is God To Blame" by a Greg Boyd. The author gives some theories why sometimes prayer seems not to be effective. The chaotic universe, all the variables of life, as well as the competing wills' and our own tendency to passiveness due to a "blueprint" worldview. Very interesting.

[shazeep]

I wonder if those don't largely explain our lack of public (at least) miracles; maybe 'a time for everything,' in a sense?

Originally Posted by Timmy

Jesus prayed that his followers would be one, but....

Well, Acts testifies that they were, right? For a brief time. These were some of the last recorded 'miracles' in Scripture; I've always wondered why no tongues recorded at this point (the 'Ananias' time) and also, why, at the very inception of the dispensation of Grace, we have two deaths that seem to be OT?

[BrotherEastman]

When you treat your wife badly!

[shazeep]