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When you prayed did it ever work?
#21
RE: When you prayed did it ever work?
Often, the best answer I ever got from God was ''no'' or ''not now'' or ''be careful what you wish for''.

...benefit of hindsight!
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#22
RE: When you prayed did it ever work?
Prayers like magic spells NEVER "worked"

Only getting off my ever widening behind and actually DOING is change affected or effected ... this the crux of the matter.

anything else is masturbation of the mind...something I hear the abrahamic religions are against. Undecided
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
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#23
RE: When you prayed did it ever work?
(October 31, 2012 at 12:44 am)Stimbo Wrote: Can we take it then that the answer's no, Drich?

[/mischievous]

All of my prayers have been answered and about 75% of my petitions or wishes have been too. If I get a 'No' I understand why.
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#24
RE: When you prayed did it ever work?
Oh stick it up your urethral tube drippy
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
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#25
RE: When you prayed did it ever work?
(October 31, 2012 at 9:51 am)Drich Wrote:
(October 31, 2012 at 12:44 am)Stimbo Wrote: Can we take it then that the answer's no, Drich?

[/mischievous]

All of my prayers have been answered and about 75% of my petitions or wishes have been too. If I get a 'No' I understand why.

Here's what you should be doing:

Because God's prayers magically work for you, keep praying, but instead of going out there and working for what you prayed, go kick back on your couch.

Get back to me when your prayer returned results.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
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#26
RE: When you prayed did it ever work?
God only answers prayers in the way he wants to apparently.
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#27
RE: When you prayed did it ever work?
(October 31, 2012 at 11:08 am)FallentoReason Wrote:
(October 31, 2012 at 9:51 am)Drich Wrote: All of my prayers have been answered and about 75% of my petitions or wishes have been too. If I get a 'No' I understand why.

Here's what you should be doing:

Because God's prayers magically work for you, keep praying, but instead of going out there and working for what you prayed, go kick back on your couch.

Get back to me when your prayer returned results.

I'm back!
How is it you think I can answer posts in the middle of the day?
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#28
RE: When you prayed did it ever work?
You could have just prayed it in...
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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#29
RE: When you prayed did it ever work?
(October 31, 2012 at 11:11 am)DoubtVsFaith Wrote: God only answers prayers in the way he wants to apparently.

Again, no. The problem with what most of you understand to be prayer isn't prayer at all. Most of you simply bow your heads and make wishes or try and bargin with God. This is not prayer. We as Christians have been given to a model of Prayer by Christ Himself, and making wishes is not apart of that process.

That said, know it is not a sin to make a wish. Also know God is not obligated to hear wishes either.

God answers prayer, but understand formally making wishes is not praying.

(October 31, 2012 at 11:39 am)Stimbo Wrote: You could have just prayed it in...

prayed what in?
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#30
RE: When you prayed did it ever work?
(October 31, 2012 at 11:38 am)Drich Wrote:
(October 31, 2012 at 11:08 am)FallentoReason Wrote: Here's what you should be doing:

Because God's prayers magically work for you, keep praying, but instead of going out there and working for what you prayed, go kick back on your couch.

Get back to me when your prayer returned results.

I'm back!
How is it you think I can answer posts in the middle of the day?

When I say "work" I don't mean the thing you've dedicated your life to, but rather more trivial things in life.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
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