Similarly, He made His own plan or plot of history such that it admits a certain amount of free play and can be modified
in response to our prayers.
On the other hand, many things can happen, both within and outside of the individual, in
response to prayer without any setting aside of God's orderly processes.
It was further encouraged by the Holy See's approval in 1922 of the dialogue Mass, at which the congregation would together
say responses to prayers of the priest.
Since God does not have a monopoly on power, God's will - and consequently God's
response to prayers consonant with the divine will - can be and sometimes is thwarted by the recalcitrance of non divine actualities, whether persons or cancer cells.
I believe that God can (and does) perform miracles in this world at various times and places, often (but not always) in
response to the prayers of His people.
Apparently this was not the case with Paul, whose thorn in the flesh was not removed in
response to prayer (2 Corinthians 12:7 - 10).
If this is God's world, he can do much — in us, through us, for us — in
response to prayer.
On the basis of this data, we suspect that at one - third of the schools — the ones that are purely evolutionist — students struggle to understand God's creative acts and
response to prayers in a material universe that runs according to strict laws.
Primewonk Your statement actually validates Gods omnipotent or omniscient attributes and why amputees do not regenerate limbs in
response to prayer.
In
response to the prayers of the saints, he imagines, God may miraculously convert their wills, so that from hating Him they come to love Him.
Indeed, in 1999, Gallup reported that 23 % of all Americans had heard a voice or seen a vision in
response to prayer.
In response to their actions, in
response to their prayer and throwing Jonah overboard, the raging sea grew calm.
It was a symbolic action which expressed both the interior feelings of the one offering and God's
response to the prayer.
And in «Patience,» part of a sequence called «The Past from the Air,» a child longing for
some response to prayer is juxtaposed with a mother waiting for her absent husband to call from the road.