Jeremiah Tipton argues that God's will is fixed like a river, so prayer doesn't change it. Instead, prayer aligns you with what God already planned. Jesus told disciples to pray for laborers in the harvest, then sent them out as those laborers, showing prayer transforms the pray-er, not God's mind.
God's will is like a fixed river. You cannot pray enough to change the direction of God's will. No amount of pleading with God is going to make him go, "You know what? I never thought of that." Let me change this. You're right. Let me, let me, let me fix this. Prayer does not change his will. Prayer puts you in the river to where now, because you're praying the words he's given you, you're, you're, you're praying along with what he declares. Remember the disciples when, when Jesus spoke to them and said, the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few? He says, therefore pray to the Lord of the harvest. Do you realize that at the very next chapter, verse 1, he sends them out? That's because prayer, more than it will change anyone or anything else, will change the one who prays.
