CONVERSATION ON PRAYER: prayer hands
Knowing God more fully is a more critical thing than to receive a change in our circumstances.
Without God’s gracious presence given in his precious gifts of belonging to a local community of faith where he gives his grace in his gifts of baptism, forgiveness, holy healing meal, and the general mutual support of fellow praying people on the journey, a change in the circumstances we have asked might lead to overconfidence and spiritual indifference.
Knowing God better is what we simply much have above all if we are to face life in all its circumstances (reflection on Tim Keller in “Prayer: Experiencing awe and intimacy with God”) on Ephesians 1:17-18.