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BarbaraTherese
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Yes, our prayer(s) of petition/intercession are always answered by God.
This entry in the New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia is quite lengthy, but makes very educational reading and wellworth reading the whole article - and probably if I want to understand what The Church teaches on the subject of petitionary prayer, then I need to read the whole article. The most heart rending intercession and petition of Jesus I think is in the Garden of Gethsamane “Father if it be possible let this cup pass from me?”. Jesus is crucified. Jesus added to that “but not My Will, but Thine be done” and the heart of all prayer and the whole of life.
When Jesus tells us “whatever you ask of The Father in my name it will be granted to you” and other assurances in the New Testament re our requests of God, one needs to get these statements into the whole context of what Jesus proclaims - if not we can misinterpret. The Church does this, of course, extremely well for us. It is always better to read the whole article, as one statement can be qualified by another.
God always answers our prayers but not necessarily by what we had in mind as the answer to our prayer, and if this latter is the only we response we will accept as our answer, our petition is a demand rather than a prayer. Rather than asking humbly of God, we are telling/demanding of God… and in this the disposition of the person comes into the question which the article does address.
Does God sometimes answer our prayer with exactly what we have prayed for? Yes, He does…read the article. Does God sometimes work miracles in response to our prayers? Yes, He does…read the article.
I have quoted quite small sections only:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12345b.htm
This entry in the New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia is quite lengthy, but makes very educational reading and wellworth reading the whole article - and probably if I want to understand what The Church teaches on the subject of petitionary prayer, then I need to read the whole article. The most heart rending intercession and petition of Jesus I think is in the Garden of Gethsamane “Father if it be possible let this cup pass from me?”. Jesus is crucified. Jesus added to that “but not My Will, but Thine be done” and the heart of all prayer and the whole of life.
When Jesus tells us “whatever you ask of The Father in my name it will be granted to you” and other assurances in the New Testament re our requests of God, one needs to get these statements into the whole context of what Jesus proclaims - if not we can misinterpret. The Church does this, of course, extremely well for us. It is always better to read the whole article, as one statement can be qualified by another.
God always answers our prayers but not necessarily by what we had in mind as the answer to our prayer, and if this latter is the only we response we will accept as our answer, our petition is a demand rather than a prayer. Rather than asking humbly of God, we are telling/demanding of God… and in this the disposition of the person comes into the question which the article does address.
Does God sometimes answer our prayer with exactly what we have prayed for? Yes, He does…read the article. Does God sometimes work miracles in response to our prayers? Yes, He does…read the article.
I have quoted quite small sections only:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12345b.htm
