(November 3, 2012 at 12:00 am)Drich Wrote: I am not really addressing anyone specifically, just an FYI.
In prayer biblically modeled Prayer, (Not chants, petitions,) We are have been assured that all prayers will be answered in the positive. Why? (Pay attention to this next bit because it seem like most of you simply do not get this) These prayers are always answered because The one prayer we have been taught to pray, has us pray for change in our own hearts. In that "His Will Be Done on earth as it is in Heaven." That Our sins Be forgiven only if we forgive those who sin against us, and that our basic needs be met. Out of the three things we are told to ask for only one has anything to do with physical want or need. What we have been told to ask for is not winning lotto tickets but just our daily min. The rest focouses on Spiritual growth/To get the person praying to change his mind about a given situation, not a way to try and force God to change His mind.
When I went on my self-funded missions trip with a team of fellow Pentecostal friends to Thailand, my one objective was to "bring heaven to earth". I didn't pray any prayer to make the world a better place, but rather, I was practical about it and set myself up to be used by God over in Thailand.
Not one sick person was ever healed. How much conviction is needed in the believer's heart for God to respond? Was a leap of faith on my part (I always thought that mission trips weren't for me), 2 months of putting all my part-time pay towards the trip and sacrificing my time to serve others STILL not enough for God to heal even the common cold?
Wake up Drich. It's all in your head.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
