Prayer Requests on Facebook
Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2019 2:24 pm
I found myself today getting prayer requests on Facebook to which I responded with my usual "Praying." What I discovered as I read what followed was that the requests were to be praying not for God's will but for specific political outcomes, even including praying for Nancy Pelosi's death before she can "ruin America by impeaching Trump. There were also prayers for Democratic success. I find such uses of prayers to be wrongheaded and frightening trivializing of prayer. They seem to be involved in telling God what our political viewpoints believe he should do. I always thought prayer had the higher purpose of submission to God's will, not demanding that God align his will with ours. How would you answer this type of requests not to offend but to correct such misuses of prayer?