No force or law of nature can stand between God and his redemptive purposes. E. M. Bounds explains how this reality should drive us to prayer.
He contends, “All natural forces are under God’s control. He did not create the world, put it under law, and then retire from it to work out its own destiny, irrespective of the welfare of His intelligent creatures. Natural laws are simply God’s laws, by which He governs and regulates all things in nature. Nature is nothing but God’s servant. God is above nature; God is not the slave of nature. This being true, God can and will suspend the working of nature’s laws, can hold them in abeyance by His mighty hand, can for the time being set them aside, to fulfill His higher purposes in redemption. It is no violation of nature’s laws when, in answer to prayer, He who is above nature makes nature His servant and causes nature to carry out His plans and purposes.”[i]
In other words, prayer moves the hand that is not bound by natural laws.
[i] E. M. Bounds, E. M. Bounds on Prayer (New Kensington, PA: Whitaker House, 2012), 259.