God has a will and all the power needed to execute [His] will unaided by man. However, in His soverignty, He has decided that, unless He finds people who will co-operate with Him by praying, He will temporarily let His will go unaccomplished. The Bible says, "Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be, having been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be, having been loosed in heaven" (Matthew 18:18-19). Heaven has already bound and heaven has already loosed. What then must happen before this thing that has been bound or loosed can become practical reality on earth? It is this: earth must bind and earth must loose. Without this, what has been done in heaven will be forced to wait. God will allow a lot of His resolutions to go unfulfilled for some time if He does not find people to co-operate with Him in prayer. God will postpone His work or allow it tp appear as if He did not care about it, unitl He finds someone who can pray and who does pray...(Fomum, The Way of Victorious Praying, 1, all emphases mine)
This is one of the clearest and definitive exhortation on the will of God (and the reason why our prayers are essential) I have ever read.
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Amen Amen Amen!!!
I pray that I may move the heart of God.
So shall it be ... if God's heart grieves may mine grieve; if God celebrates may mine celebrate with his ... to be one with the very heart of God ... may his will be established on earth by our deepest prayers
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