Hi Tim,

Good thoughts, and I see you are using an Android phone. lol.

I'll have my new Android Google Pixel tomorrow afternoon.

I'm kind of nervous about it, though.

Thanks much.

Many Blessings,

Pat Ferguson
"I can Do all Things Through Christ Who Strengthens Me" Philippians 4:13.


At 10:30 PM 1/4/2017, you wrote:
>Hi Phil, Well, one thing that came to mind was 
>if it was something that involved someone's 
>will. I don't feel like God would violate 
>someone's free will, so if you were praying 
>about someone needing to do a certain thing or 
>act a certain way, even if that's what God 
>wanted, they still have to receive the grace to 
>do what He wants them to do. They might still 
>reject that idea, despite prayer. Another thing 
>could be if it were a nationwide or global 
>thing. I feel that God has people pray for 
>certain things but He might really want many 
>more, who either don't discern that He wants 
>their prayers or simply refuse to pray. Another 
>thing, and I don't mean this legalistically, is 
>if the person you're praying for is willfully 
>involved in sin or not. Sometimes I feel that 
>people don't obey the Lord themselves, stay in a 
>certain sin without really trying to overcome 
>it, and your prayers for them just bounce right 
>off, even if led by God. This is slightly 
>different, but I know for me that sometimes I 
>have a lot of intercessory prayer dreams. If I 
>give in to a certain sin, they just stop 
>altogether until I quit, then they slowly return. Tim
>
>
>Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S® III mini, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone
>
>
>-------- Original message --------
>From: Phil Scovell
>Date:01/04/2017 4:44 PM (GMT-05:00)
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Prayer Question To Ponder
>
>Here is something to think about for this new 
>year.  In recent times, as in a few months ago 
>and a few years ago, I heard the Lord in my 
>thoughts, that is, the Holy Spirit, telling me 
>to pray specifically for two different 
>things.  They were separated by a couple of 
>years so it wasn’t the same request each 
>time.  These were prayers of petition, that is, 
>prayers I was called upon  by the Lord to pray 
>and in both cases, pray for a specific positive 
>outcome.  For those who do not believe the Holy 
>Spirit has any such intercessory ministry he 
>administrates in the Body of Christ today, you 
>might as well stop reading now, because I 
>don’t want to offend anyone.  In comparison, 
>you all have read the dozens and dozens of 
>prayers I have prayed when looking for something 
>I lost.  If you cannot believe those prayers of 
>petition, you won’t believe these other two 
>petition to which I am now referring.  For the 
>moment, I am not going to tell you what those 
>petitionary prayers were specific but I probably 
>will later.  For now, I want to focus on the 
>fact, believe it or not, that God spoke to me in 
>my thoughts and told me, at two different times, 
>to pray for a specific outcome; both of which 
>would have been God’s will to do in both 
>cases.  The problem is, neither prayer was 
>answered.  In the case of one, the Lord spoke to 
>me 3 weeks in advance of the event the was later 
>to occur and in the second prayer, it was a 
>couple of months, praying every day, and both 
>times, my will-of-God prayers were not 
>answered.  Would God ask you to pray for 
>something He knew He would not answer?  If so, 
>why?  Was it my fault for listening to voices in 
>my head?  Could it mean that God cannot answer 
>every prayer?  Warning; thin ice.  Oh, sure, the 
>old faithful axiom; God always answers prayer; 
>sometimes he just says, no.  Cute, but weak 
>theology to back it up.  Anyhow, let’s start 
>here and comment as you wish.  There are no 
>trick answers but I’ve been thinking about 
>this experience for sometime and thought you’d 
>like to share your own thoughts and concerns about unanswered prayer.
>
>
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