When we pray does God always answer that which is best for us?

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Also, if God says yes to our prayers the way in which we ask is it reliant on third parties accepting the grace?
 
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The catch is in the phrase “best for us”.

What’s best for us is salvation. And God will grant us this, if we die on the state of grace.

If it’s about violating another person’s free will, then no.
 
People choose sin all the time.

It’s the main reason for the misery of the world.

They reject God, choose their own selfish will over Him, and trample other people’s rights.
 
Having said that, and being a total Debbie Downer, we still pray anyway.

When you intercede for God to pour out His grace, that grace may penetrate that person’s heart.

We also hear of stories of people who planned to do wrong, then changed their mind at the last minute.

Or people who had a spiritual awakening and stoped doing evil, they left the KKk and started speaking out for racial equality, or they stopped being an abortionist.
Or they broke off that extra marital affair.

Also happens all the time.
 
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So hypothetically, if someone wanted to hurt me and I prayed that they wouldn’t, would my prayer be dependant on the choice that person would make still?
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Maybe. God could allow it or He could directly intervene. We see lack of immediate intervention in the Old Testament when God allowed His people to be enslaved for 400 years in Egypt; we see direct intervention when He freed them. What took so long? I don’t think we’ll ever know. But we do know our job - and it includes the sacraments, the works of mercy, and prayer/fasting. Beyond that in a sense I don’t think we even need to know why or what our participation in these things will achieve. We just need to trust & act in Faith. Like the Chosen People when Moses raised up the seraph serpent on the pole - just look at it as God commanded! And God will do His Thing.
 
lol sometimes I get the opposite of what I pray for. Imagine how I feel sometimes.

I just accept it as God’s will if it’s not something overly incredibly important. If it is, I do NOT relent.
 
Ironically I had decided some time ago to use November this year as a month where I would fast and pray the best I could for other people and especially those that have persecuted me in the past and to eradicate any unforgiveness and resentment in my heart.

Ironically because last week I had someone accuse me of something terrible at work and I have been suspended, my work said they have informed the police. My life could be in ruins forever and I could lose my family because of a nasty person.

Ironic because the month I tried is the month I got attacked. Why whenever I try to be better I get ripped apart?

I pray and hope God answers my prayers but if it is reliant on other people doing or not doing something then I am surely doomed?
 
Ugh. I’m so sorry.

Sounds like you need to lawyer up—check with your professional board for advice, and don’t discuss the case with anybody but your attorney.

It’s not uncommon to hear stories like this—a person decides to pray more then a crisis strikes.

The usual response is “my prayers caused this crisis”.

No, it doesn’t work that way.

Most likely you were inspired to pray because a storm was coming.
 
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Most likely you were inspired to pray because a storm was coming.
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Now that I like the sound of. I do hear priests talk that we never choose to pray but it is always a response from God when we pray.

I hope then God uses some way the prayers and fasting for my problem, kind of like in advance?
 
When we pray that’s because God has called us to prayer but when we pray has he asked us to pray a particular prayer or does he just call us to pray and we choose what to pray?
 
When I’ve prayed so hard for something and gotten the opposite, I struggle to see how it’s for my own good. I just have to remember, that this life is fleeting and I try my best. It is so, so hard though.
I’m sorry your going through this situation, I’ll keep you on my prayers
 
I’m saving your posts to refer to. This is what I needed to hear.
 
Yeah seriously, I just didn’t want people sinning so I’d pray they stopped but it’s free will, and I’d pray then something would happen but maybe it was gonna happen anyway and without that prayer I wouldn’t have been able to withstand it as well.

It’s like covid. I prayed it got better but it got worse, but maybe it was gonna get worse anyway and what God did is what he’s been doing and making me feel ok during the pandemic and able to make other people feel ok too.
 
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