{"id":1246,"date":"2025-01-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/2025\/01\/21\/changing-gods-mind\/"},"modified":"2025-01-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T07:00:00","slug":"changing-gods-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/2025\/01\/21\/changing-gods-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Prayer Change What God Does? Why Your Prayers MATTER."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Does prayer change what God does?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, it does, if the Bible is to be believed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the Bible is to be believed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are so many examples, but try Exodus 32<\/a>. God tells Moses that He\u2019s going to destroy the Israelites because of their idol worship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Moses intervenes and talks God out of it. In the King James Version, God \u201crepents\u201d in v. 14<\/a>. (Look it up!) In the New Living Translation, it\u2019s \u201cchanged his mind\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All because Moses faithfully interacted with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It happens again and again in scripture, like in Jonah 3<\/a>. God calls an audible (again, the translations are \u201crepented\u201d and \u201crelented\u201d and \u201cchanged His mind\u201d.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please notice there\u2019s something very consistent and very beautiful about this: First, God allows us to talk with him, and that talk we have with him means something to him. Second, when he goes a new direction, that direction is always toward mercy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God wants us to interact with Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your prayers<\/a> MATTER.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You are not talking to a computer. God has a personality. He\u2019s looking to partner with us in this world. He\u2019s waiting for us to engage him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Waiting for you, even. Right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brant Hansen
<\/a>Midday Show Host, STAR 99.1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Does prayer change what God does?
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