UGW #7: But God already knows our needs
Understanding God's Will #7: But what about the verses that talk about how God knows what we need before we ask, like Matthew 6:8 and Matthew 6:32 ? Doesn’t this show that we don’t really need to pray for His care, because He’ll care for us anyway, since He knows our needs? God knows what we need, and He can read our thoughts. (All the more reason to make sure that we set our minds on things above and not on impure, ungodly things.) But once again, it doesn’t say that He responds to our thoughts or that He gives us what we need just because He knows we need it. We can choose to live apart from God, in self-sufficiency. We can choose to live life sitting back, putting our feet up and saying, “Ok, God, bring on the blessings... Look how well He takes care of me!” We can choose to think like Calvinists do, that God's already planned out everything...