{"id":2772,"date":"2019-02-20T14:35:46","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T22:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/?p=2772"},"modified":"2019-02-20T14:36:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T22:36:35","slug":"how-does-prayer-actually-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/20\/how-does-prayer-actually-work\/","title":{"rendered":"How does prayer actually work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uttering a few words of prayer doesn&#8217;t seem like much. Even if it was heartfelt, passionate, deep, long &#8211; whatever &#8220;good&#8221; prayer looks like, do those words make a difference?<\/p>\n<p>The obvious answer from any devoted Christian is yes. But why? How do words I say translate into changes in real life?<\/p>\n<p>Logically speaking, prayer doesn&#8217;t make much sense. It may make us feel better, it may relief some stress, etc. but it doesn&#8217;t make sense that saying some words to God can do anything in the material world.<\/p>\n<p>I read this in <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.childrendesiringgod.org\/the-prayers-of-this-generation-matter-to-the-next\/\" target=\"_blank\">Truth78<\/a> today and it made sense:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Bottom line\u2014prayer matters! . . . It matters because God is pleased to accomplish His unstoppable purposes through the prayers of His people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a mysterious way, God himself provided a way in which He would use our words said to him to accomplish his purposes.<\/p>\n<p>If you were to ask someone for a favor, especially someone in high authority, you would be wise to prepare a nice speech. But with prayer to the Creator of heaven and earth, it matters not\u00a0how you say it, who it&#8217;s said by, all ages, all language, any form &#8211; amazing how prayer works!<\/p>\n<p>We take it too lightly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uttering a few words of prayer doesn&#8217;t seem like much. Even if it was heartfelt, passionate, deep, long &#8211; whatever &#8220;good&#8221; prayer looks like, do those words make a difference? The obvious answer from any devoted Christian is yes. But why? How do words I say translate into changes in real life? Logically speaking, prayer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,25,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45","category-spiritual-life","category-thoughts-on-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}