"Don't be afraid. from the very first day that you humbled yourself before God and began to pray for understanding, your words were heard" (daniel 10:12ff).

If God will do whatever he wishes, regardless of whether we pray or not, then we do not need to pray at all, and the Lord's instructions on praying for the kingdom and the will are superfluous. but the truth is that god waits for a remnant to rise up and to pray in agreement with his purpose before he does anything - he will do nothing apart from the church. apart from him, we can do nothing; apart from us, he will do nothing.

Here is my point: the Lord searches the whole earth, and when he has found a person who sees that purpose, and daily orders their life according to that purpose, and (here is the key!) consistently rises up to pray for the fulfillment of that purpose, then God will move heaven and earth on behalf of that person; for he has found, at last, some ground to build upon. that person is numbered with the remnant because, i promise you, men and women like that are few and far between.