> God, simply by being God, already knows that you praise him. He knows that you're thankful for his works.

This doesn't make sense. Praise and thanks are actions. If I don't praise and don't thank him, how could he know that I do praise and do thank him? Putting "God can" in front of nonsense is still nonsense.

I also disagree with [the person] uselessness's post, which said that there is such a thing as passive praise/thanks. There are the emotions admiration and gratitude, which sort-of correspond, but God doesn't particularly care about emotions.

So you ask for something, and God decides to grant it. Did God know you were going to ask? Yes. Could he have granted it before you asked? Yes. If he had done so, would you have asked? No. Did we just create a paradox? Yes.

So why doesn't God just jump in and always grant every request that you might otherwise have asked for if he hadn't granted it and to which he would have decided to grant the request had you asked for it?

Beats me.