No one took enough pity on you to do any of these things for you. When you were born, no one loved you. You were thrown out in an open field. “Then I passed by and saw you squirming in your own blood. You were covered with blood, but I wouldn’t let you die. – Ezekiel 16:5-6 GNT

These were one of the many verses my mom would teach us to memorize and we would say them every morning. She wanted us to use them as promises for healing should we face a situation where there was no other hope other than the grace of God.

That is not where I was going today. Someone thinks this child has no purpose in being born, there is definitely nothing considered when it comes to their beauty and obviously the child has yet to learn to speak and so does not call for help. It is a reminder to me that when a sinner prayers it is only because God has sought them out and has already begun a work in their soul. It is why so many believe in predestination – one cannot come to Christ unless He calls.

“Goldsworthy distills the biblical data on prayer, first thematically and topically. He then re-marches through the biblical data by considering prayer in successive stages in redemptive history, from creation through the fall, Israel and the coming of Christ.” – Timothy Keller: Goldsworthy, Graeme – Prayer and the Knowledge of God.