by force to make

Discuss amongst yourselves: forced prayers

Tried to get the little one to focus and bend the knee. Finally made him do it via threat. From standpoint one, important to enforce the practice. Important when you don't want to -- even more important when you don't want to -- to do it. Like forcing a smile to change a mood, bending the knee has some spiritual effect. Might not want to read the Word either, but do it, and the Spirit acts on the step of faith.

From standpoint two, it was wasted time before the throne. He never asks for obedience by the letter but rather obedience by the heart. Wants you to want to. And if you don't, patience isn't always from the devil, but from waiting upon the Lord. Psalms are full of the waiting upon the Lord. What's the lesson here? A harsh God demands prostration?

Chicken egg chicken. Or egg.