why should i have to ask god for anything,isn't he suppose to know what i want before i realize i want it?

Answer 1

It's like writing a letter to Santa. You may or may not get what you ask for -- depending on if you are a good boy or girl.

I guess nobody in the World Trade Centre towers was good enough to have their prayers answered. And as for those people in sinful New Orleans, what made then think that they had the right to ask God to save them from the hurricane?

Isn't it more important that God be worshipped and that he is happy, instead of worrying about the needs of people?

For more about prayer, see the link below. It has some very interesting statements about why prayer is not answered.

Answer 2

Of course He realizes your needs before you do, but it seems you just missed the point in your prayer when you ask Him anything you want, the point is that He wants you to be always connected to Him so that you have a high spirituality which will provide you with faith, love, goodness, hospitality,.......and this stuff related to the soul.

Answer 3

Make no prayer in vain (for yourself) pray thus wise, Our Father who art in heaven.... Oh, heck wait a minute, I am one of those atheist folks who have never read the bible. So, consider the lillies of the field, the neither sow nor reap and ,, wait I'm doing it again,

Here is how it is supposed to work, kind of like a chain letter, I pray for you , you pray for someone else, etc etc.

You are supposed to pray that god will be happy healthy and successful, not for any mortals purpose, see, it's all about the deity.

Answer 4

Taking this one step further, the fourth Imam of the Muslims, Ali Bin Husain (peace and mercy of the Lord be with him always) said, that had God not ordered us to ask him and supplicate to him, it would be a sin to request of him, as that would imply that the Lord does not know what we need and it would also imply that we know better than God what our needs are.

The reason the Lord orders us to ask him is so we have a connection with Him. It is a relationship issue more than what anything else. He indeed knows what is good for us. Before our grandfather married his wife, we were already known to the HOLY ONE. He knew our needs way before we were born.

Before our mom got pregnant with us, she did not have milky for us in her breasts. When she got pregnant, before she realized it or we realized it, the system was put into action that would provide us milk when we are born. Before the plant's seed takes root, the earth is already prepared to receive it and the rain and sunshine is arranged for its sprouting.

Know it that he asks us so we connect with him. He is the BOAT in the stormy ocean of life. He is the rope to save us from the dark well of our selfishness. So, when we ask, we connect with Him and are uplifted. Plants and animals are not asked to pray to him, when he fulfills their needs too.

I hope this makes sense.

Answer 5

well God says in his words in john 14:14 you shall ask anything in my name and i shall do it.see God wants u to ask him in his name,he wants to hear u ask,he knows what u want but u see he doesn't give to people just like that.he like the way he wanted he want people to ask.

Answer 6

Yours is a question that holds some interest for me. I used to sit in church as a boy, bored out of my mind and thinking why do I need to attend church to communicate with God? After all, he was all around me, so they kept telling me in church.

Some thirty years later, and these days keeping company with a number of minister friends (though still not attending church very often) I happened to be relating one of my conversations with same to my mother, who asked me why, given my obvious interest in talking with my minister friends, and with religion in general, I did not attend church more regularly.

I responded that I tended to find the sermons boring, the lack of interaction and ability to ask questions stifling, and the parishoners often full of a little too much of that holier than thou attitude, or else using church for some sort of social networking in ways that I felt bordered on being sacreligious.

My mother then said something to me that really quite took me aback. "You know," she said, "you don't go to church because you like the minister, or the sermon, or the other parishoners. You go to church to pay homage to God."

Yes, God does know what you want, and quite differently perhaps, what you need, before you do, and I will not pretend to tell you that I have any idea what his plan is for you, or for me. But it does strike me that just as one may go to church to pay homage to God, one might also show some deference, some evidence of good manners if you will, by asking for what you want, rather than just taking for granted that he will provide.

I imagine you place some value on polite behavior in conducting your interpersonal relationships with your fellow mortals. Perhaps you might consider enlarging your perspective a bit by placing the same value on your relations with your Creator.

I struggle a good bit with my faith, and really have not embraced much of any formal doctrine, as I tend to think that doctrine is where man/men insert themselves bewteen us and God, attributing to him rules and characteristics that are more likely of mortal device than divine. Still, I look about me, and see how vast is the universe, and how perfectly things work, and it is clear to me that there is a God. To believe that this is all some sort of happy series of accidents, well it just requires more faith than I can muster for coincidence.

That being said, it also seems to me that while I cannot pretend to know God's plan or his intentions toward me, anyone capable of accomplishing what he has accomplished deserves my respect and deference. If I had a very good friend, whose lawnmower I wished to borrow, I am pretty certain I would ask first. As I believe that nothing observable by man would exist without it being God's will, I feel obliged to ask him too.

Answer 7

You ask god because you believe and it doesn't hurt to have faith. What you want is physically controlled by you, god does not force.

Answer 8

It's not that God doesn't know what you want, it's that He wants to hear from you. He wants you to talk to Him, just as you want your children to talk to you, and you to them.

Answer 9

that's silly...you're supposed to ask mommy and daddy for what you want...God will give you what you need

Answer 10

Kids starve to death in Africa everyday, what makes you think he cares about you?