“It is said that prayer cannot alter the purpose of God. Of course it cannot! It does not alter it, and since people are moved to pray this way or that way by the Spirit of God, it is because the Spirit knows the mind of God and His movement to pray is a revelation of the mind of God to the praying one! Believing supplication is God writing His desires upon the hearts of His own children with the intent to fulfill them.” – C. H. Spurgeon
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Excellent quote and very compatible with Calvinism. God moving the hearts of his sheep to pray in a certain way will have their prayers answered by his foreordained plans. A wonderful union with our Creator through prayer and the subsequent unfolding of events.
Persons may not always get desired answers to our prayers. In those cases it might be said that they ‘pray amiss’ – James 4:3.