Even if all the things that people prayed for happened, which they do not, this would not prove what Christians mean by the efficacy of prayer. For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted…
~ C S Lewis, ‘The World’s Last Night’
My comment: This *is* one of the most profound things CSL ever wrote about prayer…
With one caveat…
—>>> Prayer, of course, is much more than ‘request’/ intercession/supplication.
But when prayer-is-asking, this dimension must always bear in mind CSL’s wisdom.
My Pentecostal/Charismatic/Fu
Rowland
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