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This question was texted to me during a weekend service: ‘What’s the point of praying for healing if God’s just going to do what He wants anyway?’ Great question – do we change God’s mind when we pray or does God change ours? I believe that the most powerful aspect of prayer is that it prepares us to watch God act. He knows the ‘beginning from the end’ and does know what will happen tomorrow. Prayer gets us aligned with what will be and our time with God brings us the awareness of His presence in each minute of each day. When we pray, we exit the natural and experience the supernatural. We open ourselves up to communication with God Himself in a two-way dialogue with our Heavenly Father. We are called to make all our requests to Him and trust Him. As we exercise the other part of prayer, listening, we do hear the Spirit leading us. We might not be asking for the outcome that will bring us the most joy. We might not be asking for the right timing. We might not be asking for something we are ready to have. God takes all those variables into account and in His non-linear experience of time, He prepares us for what He has already seen to be tomorrow and the future. Prayer aligns us with the power of God. Our greatest struggle is that we don’t participate in the listening part of prayer. We just ask for things. The answer to ‘why pray?’ is so that we can hear and see what God knows and understands and allow Him to prepare us to be victorious and joyful in what the future holds.