Lesson from Sunday January 17, 2010
Discussion centered on God’s sovereignty and the reasons we are called to pray with regard to His ultimate plan for creation and mankind. Sheets referenced the teachings of other well known prayer warriors who contend that God’s plan “needs” for us to pray, not because God can’t complete the task on his own, but because God chose to limit himself in this way in order that mankind may have choice in the matter. God chose from the time of creation to work on the earth through humans, not independent of them. My asking of God is an exercise of my choice—it releases Him to do something in my life and the lives of those for which I intercede.