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Watchtower Quotes on Prayer!
by Beans 10 Replies latest watchtower bible
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w09 5/15 Fear Jehovah, the Hearer of Prayer
A Restricted Privilege
6 Human kings do not allow just anyone to enter into the royal palace unannounced. An audience with a king is a restricted privilege. So is prayer to the King of eternity. Of course, those approaching him through Jesus Christ with proper appreciation of God's glorious majesty can expect to be heard. The King Eternal must be approached with a reverent, worshipful attitude. And those desiring to be heard must display "the fear of Jehovah."-Proverbs 1:7.
7 What is "the fear of Jehovah"? It is profound reverence for God, coupled with a wholesome dread of displeasing him. This awe stems from deep gratitude for his loving-kindness and goodness. (Psalm 106:1) It involves acknowledging him as the King of eternity, who has the right and the power to bring punishment, including death, upon anyone disobeying him. Persons manifesting the fear of Jehovah may pray to him with the expectation of being heard.
8 Naturally, God does not answer the prayers of wicked, unfaithful, and self-righteous people. (Proverbs 15:29; Isaiah 1:15; Luke 18:9-14) But those who fear Jehovah are heard because they have conformed to his righteous standards. Yet, they have done more. Fearers of Jehovah have made a dedication to God in prayer and symbolized this by undergoing water baptism. They thus have an unrestricted privilege of prayer.
9 To be heard by God, a person must express prayerful sentiments that are in harmony with the divine will. Yes, he must be sincere, but more is required. "Without faith it is impossible to please [God] well," wrote the apostle Paul, "for he that approaches God must believe that he is and that he becomes the rewarder of those earnestly seeking him." (Hebrews 11:6) Well, then, can unbaptized persons be encouraged to pray with the hope of being heard?
10 Aware that prayer is a restricted privilege, King Solomon asked that Jehovah hear only foreigners who prayed toward God's temple in Jerusalem. (1 Kings 8:41-43) Centuries later, the Gentile foreigner Cornelius "made supplication to God continually" as a devout man. Upon gaining accurate knowledge, Cornelius dedicated himself to God, who then gave him the holy spirit. Following this, Cornelius and other Gentiles were baptized. (Acts 10:1-44) Like Cornelius, anyone today progressing toward dedication may be encouraged to pray. But an individual who is insincere about studying the Scriptures, does not know the divine requirements for prayer, and has not yet displayed an attitude pleasing to God cannot be said to fear Jehovah, have faith, or be earnestly seeking him. Such a person is not in position to offer prayers acceptable to God.
11 Some who were at one time progressing toward dedication later may seem to be holding back. If they do not have enough love for God in their heart to make an unreserved dedication to him, they ought to ask themselves whether they still have the wonderful privilege of prayer. Apparently not, because those approaching God must be earnestly seeking him and also righteousness and meekness. (Zephaniah 2:3) Everyone who really fears Jehovah is a believer who makes a dedication to God and symbolizes it by getting baptized. (Acts 8:13; 18:8) And only baptized believers have an unrestricted privilege of approaching the King Eternal in prayer.
"As every one knows, there are mistakes in the Bible" - The Watchtower, April 15, 1928, p. 126
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refiners fire
hmmm.
Very confusing quote there.Which end is the communication blocked from?
Is it that they think they have the privilage of prayer, and think theyre praying, but theyre not really praying?
Or is it that God doesnt listen?, but he must be, cause God knows everything, even the hair that falls off a head.
So is it that Gods filtering what theyre saying and only 1/4 listening??Elsewhere:
So I have to be filled with overwhelming GRATITUDE and LOVE
and TERRIFIED at the same time...
Yeah, look, I got no problem with the terror bit, but Im struggling on being overwhelmed with Love at the same time.
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Will Power
Another way of saying that you must dedicate yourself to Jehovah's org the WT before you can get to the King.
Funny, Jesus, in that bible book of all places, that no one could go to the "Father" except thru Him (Jesus).
Guess this means since the JWs are not supposed to be sons of God (except the annointed) their god Jehovah is not the Father. They are on a different road. (the only right one they say)
And that pesky prayer "Our Father"..... no wonder they don't pray that way.
And what about the Holy Spirit that is supposed to intercede for us ...to make our plea acceptable........
The WT has definitely made themselves substitutes for Christ and the bible calls such false & anti-christs.
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plmkrzy
I read that link all I have to say about it is
HOGWASH!
As far as THIER idea is concerned regarding thier idea of only being able to approach god through a baptizim.
They have rearanged the whole meaning of Simbolic and baptizim.Baptizim is Symbolic and you do not LITERALLY HAVE TO BE EMERSED IN A POOL OF WATER BY ANYONE!
Water baptizim is something entended for the purpose of SHOWING your peers you are dedicating your life to God.
You do not HAVE to be baptized in THAT maner in order to comunicate with GOD.
But you do have to be baptized in THAT maner in order to continue a relationship with Jehovah's witnesses.The quotes are misleading.
Thats all I have to say about that.. hehehehe
Love is one of life's mysteries, like lightning, it never strikes. For others, like lightning, it strikes several times. So wear a rubber crash helmet
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Beans
PLMKRZY:
Most things that the Watchtower prints are misleading, but what fun would these discussion boards be if they weren`t?
Love Beans
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Will Power
Ya know beans, trying to figure out what the hell these JWs believe from one year to the next, then the logic behind it, then the motives, the lingo, the doublespeak, etc. is like trying to do one of those 10,000 pc puzzles, the kind with a picture on both sides!
No wonder the average person can't be bothered. But I like puzzles and there is certainly more than enough to LOL around here.
Will
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dungbeetle
>11 Some who were at one time progressing toward dedication later may seem to be holding back. If they do not have enough love for God in their heart to make an unreserved dedication to him, they ought to ask themselves whether they still have the wonderful privilege of prayer. Apparently not,...<
>And only baptized believers have an unrestricted privilege of approaching the King Eternal in prayer.<
A**holes. As I have said over and over again, Watchtower LOVES persecution, CRAVES persecution, will do anything to GET persecution...
including but not limited to the dissemination of dog**it like this that is obviously meant to be offensive to any normal person.
Blaaahhhhh...
UADNA-US (Unseen Apostate Directorate of North America-United States)
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MacHislopp
Hello Beans,
thanks for the post. DungBeetle: I do agree with you
that same quotes are:"... offensive to any normal person."
Furthermore they don't show the spirit of
love, compassion, empathy of Christ Jesus.Greetings, J.C.MacHislopp
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Quotes
Thanks for the post Beans. I have just expanded the quote to include paragraphs 6 through 11 (it was just para 11 before).
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