> people would pray for an outcome they knew had already occurred From God's perspective, though, it doesn't matter if the prayer occurs before or after the ev

> people would pray for an outcome they knew had already occurred From God's perspective, though, it doesn't matter if the prayer occurs before or after the event, (assuming God exists outside of time and knows everything that has happened and will ever happen). That might seem to open the possibility that believers could pray for events to be retroactively changed from a known (to them) outcome to a different outcome (rewriting their memories in the process), but presumably the claim is that God's will is revealed through the outcomes themselves, and the believer should update their desires based on that revealed will.