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Your Father knows what you need, then why ask?

Posted on April 6, 2016 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

Father and son painting a room

The question is, why should we pray if God already knows what we need? It is not like I am going to provide God with a missing piece of data without which he could not make a good choice.

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