God's sovereignty does not negate our responsibility to pray, but rather makes it possible for us to pray with confidence.
God makes provision for our holiness, but He gives us the responsibility of using those provisions.
...God has made provision for our holiness. Through Christ He has delivered us from sin's reign so that we now can resist sin. But the responsibility for resisting is ours. God does not do that for us. To confuse the potential for resisting (which God provided) with the responsibility for resisting (which is ours) is to court disaster in our pursuit of holiness.
Practice of true community involves responsibilities and actions that do not come naturally to us.
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