God will meet us and help us.

Why doesn't God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.

Now, of course, you have guidance devices and all sorts of things. The soul would be more like the way this is all hooked together, a system of coordination.

To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives.

The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.

To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.

The idea that everything would happen exactly as it does regardless of whether we pray or not is a specter that haunts the minds of many who sincerely profess belief in God. It makes prayer psychologically impossible, replacing it with dead ritual at best.