The question was "will you teach us how to pray". Too many people are assuming the question was "what do we pray for?". Luke 11:1
Does prayer have any effect?
by The Quiet One 56 Replies latest jw experiences
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cofty
Don't change the question N.drew
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mind blown
In my personal experience, YES.
I do also believe in the placebo effect, especially in the case of illness recovery. However, when I've in been in circumstances beyond my control, I've been assisted many times over.
For instance, I had a dire family emgergency and needed to go to a land I had never been to. As soon as I got to the airport, I started telling this stranger my issue and she turned out to be a nurse who was the going to the same place as I. She also gave me further assistence in what to do. In this entire experience, I was completey assisted by people I had never met before...even to finding a new apt for my relative with exactly what they needed .....they had even lost a purse with thousands of dollars in it which was soon returned to the police dept, in a part of the city which is unheard of. And believe me I prayed hard for help and direction, as I had abosultey no help from any one in my family, friends and my relatives life was at risk......
This has happend to me on many other occasions as well....
Now if you want to look it on a metaphysical level as well, then we are more powerful then we realize.....but I still don't want to give up on the idea of a God.....I could be wrong.....but I could be right.....
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N.drew
Don't change the question N.drew
Bla! Why do you always blame me? OK. Why does it SEEM like you blame me? It's not my fault. How did I get the job of fall guy? I don't want it daddy!
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cofty
As soon as I got to the airport, I started telling this stranger my issue and she turned out to be a nurse who was the going to the same place as I. She also gave me further assistence in what to do
As soon as you credit god for happy outcomes you put him on trial for all the thousands of horrific circumstances that are happening simultaneously with your good fortune.
The only thing that would be really strange would be if amazing coincidences didn't happen all the time in a world of billions of interconnected people and circumstances.
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N.drew
poopsiecakes started it. Why don't you yell at her?
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poopsiecakes
poopsiecakes started it. Why don't you yell at her?
I do love you, darlin! -
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"I could be wrong....I could be right" PIL Public Image Limited
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Bella15
I don't know what has happened to me, and yes like someone before, I used to pray a lot as a JW but no answers because I think I was asking God to do things for me, which really it would have been so unjust given so many millions of people in worst circumstances than me, also I didn't really know God for what He says He is not what any religion/men/personal opinions say He is. Now through my ever increasing knowledge of Jesus I know that I pray to God as an act of worship but at the same time I know that in Christ and through Chirst I am fully equipped to do anything, in Christ I am healed, in Christ I have the power to conquer, to defeat, I have the riches of Christ, within me is already the answer, the blessing ...
For example, I can pray Isaiah 54:17 and claim my inheritance/heritage ... "No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD"
I believe now that this is mine .. it is my inheritance ... it says that a weapon (situation, trouble) WILL FORM but it will NOT prosper ... so if I get sick, if I have to deal with a situacion, I know that I will take care of it, do my part, but in the end I have an inheritance from my Father and nothing will prosper against me (it will not defeat me).
Praying Isaiah 54:17 with my daughter (who doctors thought she had some tourette's syndrome) has done wonders in us ... from a devastating medical report of tourette, we now laugh happily with God, because Neurologist couldn't find nothing wrong with her, Specialist couldn't believe the video diary that they asked me to keep where you can see my daughter's tics that were so bad and intrusive. When I became a Christian I started watching Christian TV and I've heard story after story of praying for healing ... I started doing the same with my daughter and claiming God's promises and blessings for us and sure enough praying for us works better than Xanax and other anxiety pills they wanted to give my daughter. I remember when we left the last Neurologist we saw, my daughter, my son and I were all laughs, I said, the doctor doesn't know what happened but we know GOD DID IT and we high five'd each other ...
Have faith, Believe, Love ...
For HE is faithful and His love endures forever ... His blessing is out there for the taking ... just BELIEVE !!!!
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I do love you, darlin!