Rather than speaking of divine intervention, panentheism speaks of divine intention and divine interaction. Or, to use sacramental language, it sees the presence of God "in, with, and under" everything--not as the direct cause of events, but as a presence beneath and within our everyday lives.
[This framework] allows for prayers to have effects, including prayers for healing. It does not rule out extraordinary events. But it refuses to see efficacious prayer or extraordinary events as the result of divine intervention.
From [the panentheism] point of view, interventionism not only has insurmountable difficulties, but claims to know too much; namely, it claims to know that "intervention" is the explanatory mechanism for God's relation to the world. Except in the very general sense of "divine intentionality" and "divine interactivity," panentheism does not claim to have an explanation of the God-world relation. It is content not to know.
-Marcus Borg, The Heart of Christianity, pg. 66-69
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