I've learnt the importance of prayer on so many occasions in my life. If it wasn't for prayer I wouldn't even be writing this right now. Prayer changes things, people, circumstances and just about anything.
When I hear people say there is no God I wonder what planet they are from. Me, over hearing someone say there is no God is like them over hearing someone say that they do not believe human beings exist. I'm sure that if they over heard someone say that they wouldn't even bother to respond because they would feel the person must have escaped from a mental institution or should be in one receiving the help they need. Well, that's the way I feel about them too for saying that God does not exist.
I see the hand of God not only in the beauty of creation by also in my personal life. I've observed that when secular people especially in America use the word prayer or praying; they are implying based on how the words in their sentences are structured that you've done all you could to make something happen but nothing did and since all you've done is not working you have decided to throw the responsibility of it being done into the clouds. Thus, you're being irresponsible by praying.
Most of these people who view prayer this way and don't believe in God wouldn't tell you this but the truth is that in the past (sometimes even in the present) they have prayed to God themselves and they didn't get any answer. Instead of them to find out why they didn't get an answer when they prayed to God again and again during their time of need, they resort to concluding there is no God.
Just because when they prayed they got no answer they therefore say that all those people who are saying they are getting answers are lying.
Look, if you can't catch a basketball in midair and dunk it with one hand, it doesn't mean that everybody else who says they can are lying. Just because you can't do something doesn't mean others who said they can are lying. And just because you did something and didn't get a specific result doesn't mean that everybody else who did that same thing can't get a different result from what you got.
What these people should find out is why it didn't work for them, why that other person got it and they didn't, why the other person got the result they wanted and they didn't. They should find out what that other person did that they didn't do.
In the case of the basketball example that I gave, they should find out what training drills the person does that they don't do.
In the case of prayer they should understand this; if you want God to hear your prayer you must become a child of God. We are not all children of God but we are all created by God. We are not born children of God. If you want to be a child of God you have to consciously come to God - you have to receive Jesus Christ into your heart. When you do that and you pray, then and only then is God obliged to hear you. But God hearing you is different from God answering you. If you want to receive from God when you pray you must have faith - you must believe that you would receive otherwise you most likely wouldn't get it unless somebody else who has faith is also praying for you.
If you are not a Christian and you have what you think is faith (but really can't be the God type of faith because you are not a Christian), and you pray to God you certainly wouldn't get answers.
There is only one prayer that a non-Christian is allowed to pray. It is the prayer to become a Christian - the prayer to receive Christ. Any other prayer does not have the right to be answered.
So now, you know why when you prayed your prayers weren't answered. And now, you know what to do.
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Thanks & God bless.
Alfred Benjamin King.
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If you’ve been touched by what you just read and you’ve never given your heart to Jesus before but now want to become a Christian, please say this prayer and mean it with all your heart.
“Oh Lord God, I come to you in the name of Jesus Christ. Your word says, ‘… whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved’ (Acts 2:21)
So now I ask Jesus to come into my heart to be the lord of my life. I receive eternal life into my spirit and according to Romans 10: 9, ‘That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shall be saved’ , Therefore I declare that I am saved; I am born – again; I am a child of God! I now have Christ dwelling in me, and greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world! (1 John 4:4). I now walk in the consciousness of my new life in Christ Jesus. Hallelujah!”
PRAYER FOR THE RETURNING BACK SLIDER (ONLY):
“Oh lord God, I ask for your mercy and forgiveness for turning my back on you. I come back to you today in total sincerity and like the parable of the prodigal son, I thank you for receiving me back with Joy and Gladness.
I confess that Jesus Christ is the lord of my life and God the father is my Daddy. Hallelujah!”
PRAYER TO RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT:
“Oh Father, I thank you now for making me born again. For making me your child.
I ask that you give me your Holy Spirit to live in me and with me. For your word says that you would freely give the Holy Spirit to all those who ask. I open my heart and receive, and I know by faith that you have given me your Holy Spirit. Thank you Father. In Jesus name. Amen.”
CONGRATULATIONS! YOU ARE NOW A CHILD OF GOD. WELCOME TO THE FAMILY OF GOD.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Alfred Benjamin King is a full time writer & illustrator who obviously loves writing and drawing with all his heart.
He also loves music and so makes songs in his bedroom every once in a while.
He lives as though he’s retired early and retired rich. His bread comes from the fact that he is a business investor who God has blessed with wisdom.
He is one of the leading Christ – Minded writers in both fiction and non – fiction today.
His contribution to literature is extra ordinary. He created two new genres of literature namely, “D.I.P” and “S+C.S”
His literally works and special projects have gone spiral on the web; wheeling in an ever increasing number of views per post.
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