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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I very rarely pray for intervention, let alone a specific outcome. I pray to give thanks, and will pray for God to give extra strength and support to someone going through a tough time (including myself), but that's it. I was raised to believe it is presumptuous to ask God to do things or change outcomes, because God in his infinite wisdom can make those decisions on His own.[/quote]

So if, God forbid, a loved one was in a dangerous situation, you wouldn't pray to God to keep them safe and alive? If you lost your job and rent is due in 2 weeks and you have $10 in your checking account, you won't pray for a job offer at a place you just interviewed at?

I agree that devotion is important, but really, it's God's [i]job[/i] to help us when we are in need. And, being human, it's unrealistic that we won't ask for Divine intervention to achieve the goals we want in our lives. The only people who never do that are saints, and saints tend to lead completely different lives altogether.[/quote]

I will pray for God to watch over them, but I trust him to know what his role is without my input. God is all-knowing, he knows about a loved one in a dangerous situation and about a lost job and rent due, he doesn't need me to call his attention to it or telling him what the "right" outcome is. In that sense, even asking for God to give peace, strength, support, etc., is presumptuous, but it feels less so because I'm not asking for a particular event to happen. That doesn't mean I've never prayed for an outcome in a moment of weakness (I said rarely), I'm human, it happens.[/quote]

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