“If God is unchangeable, and if he already knows the future, why should I bother praying?” This is a valid question with at least two sound answers. One of the most common questions people ask about prayer is whether or not it changes God. Pray that you and God will be the best and closest of friends. Pray as a foretaste of the face-to-face relationship you will enjoy with him forever. Pray to be close to God, and pray to remain close to God. Prayer is an essential means of forming that relationship, fostering it, and increasing it. You can enjoy this relationship for the rest of eternity. You can restore the relationship you were meant to have with him, which was disrupted by sin. You can have a thriving and growing relationship with him. I don’t think I can say it too many times! Christianity promises that you can and will encounter the one true and living God. The whole thrust of this section and chapter is this: Christianity offers a genuine re- lationship with the living God.
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