Good morning to all here.
I have something that is puzzling me, I have come to realize that there are some people that have to go an extra mile to seek God to get what they want (and May end up not even getting it!!) and there are others that get what they want without even asking God for it!!!
Does that mean that our God is a God of favouritism?! What criteria does he use to bless others who don’t seek Him that much or even at all and leave out the ones that call upon Him day and night and strive so hard to walk in His ways?!!!!
Please help me and answer my questions!
Joanita
Religion is the absence of faith and the presence of unquestioning belief, which is why I am opposed to it. Knowing the difference between FAITH and BELIEF is important not just for religious people, but also for those of us who are part of the CHRISTIANITY movement.
Religion is a misdiagnosis of the problem and an incorrect prescription for a remedy.
For the time being, I will refrain from delving into the horrors of religion and instead focus on the concept of prayer.
I believe in prayer, and it means three things to me:
- A form of communication
- A Therapy Session
- A Worship Session
I pray, and every time I do, I make sure I know why I’m praying and what I’ll be doing to myself in prayer. Is it communication that I require, therapy that I require, or worship that I require? That is WHY I PRAY, and it is WHEN I PRAY.
NOT WHO GOD IS BUT WHAT HE HAS
Today, however, there is a religion of prayer, and many people make a living off of it. Prayer Ministries, prayer Warriors, and Worriers are all available. Fasting, pilgrims, ornaments, ointments, holy water…holy linens, holy mountains, holy men and women, rosaries, and many more ritualistic points of contact are all used in combination with prayers.
Prayer is the new religious industrialisation, and everybody who wants to advance in health and wealth must pray.
People go to church to pray, and those who stay at home beg those who are going to pray for them. People have no idea who the God they pray to is; all they know is that this God has everything they need, and the only way to get it is through prayer.
To put it another way, you don’t need to know WHO this God is; all you need to know is what he can do and also has.
Pastors and shrinks have taught their followers that prayer, in all of its forms, such as yelling, crying, meditating, yoga, whispering, and so on, is the key factor in achieving your goals.
A proof-text bible has also led to the idea that if you pray long enough, you will receive whatever you desire.
THE DISAPPOINTMENT
What has eventually happened is that many individuals have prayed and prayed and prayed and nothing has changed, while others who have not prayed appear to have the solutions of those who are praying.
This disappointment has caused or is likely to create, a mass exodus of people from the God they pray to all the time but who hasn’t answered their prayers.
The issue isn’t with God; it’s with the religion we’ve built around him. We’ve told folks that God is a locked storehouse of everything you need, and that prayer is the key to unlocking that storehouse of goods.
The prayer religion has taught its adherents that their problem is a lack of this or that, and that the solution is to obtain this or that.
The religion of prayer has not spelt out to its adherents why those who have what they are praying for are also unhappy; all it has done is encourage people to pray and get what they desire.
The religion of prayer tells us that our problem isn’t WHERE we are, but WHAT we don’t have.
Everything can be fixed, according to the prayer religion, and we can live happily ever after in a sinful and fallen world.
Even though God says the unidentified poor are always with us, the religion of prayer reminds us that we can all be rich.
Because it believes in magical products rather than manufactured goods, the religion of prayer urges us to pray more than we work.
Whenever people don’t get what they prayed for, the religion of prayer accuses God, because it’s God has refused and he doesn’t care.
The religion of prayer is a legalistic and moralistic religion in which you must behave in order to receive what you are praying for, or you will be punished by the same God who is supposed to bless you.
We claim, take, and own whatever belongs to our father (God) since we are his praying children, according to the religion of prayer.
The Prayer Religion is a jihadistic and belligerent religion in which we refuse to eat, leave the church, or leave our homes unless we receive what we want and are praying for from God. In light of what former Jihadist prayerers did, we blackmail and hold God hostage… (This is Bible proof-texting.)
The religion of prayer prays for the unnatural and unprocedural, such as “God, for whom nothing is impossible, please assist me in delivering my child through my mouth.“
I could go on, but the point is that we live in a fallen world where God’s benefits have been misused. While God would love to help you, his hands are tied owing to standard operating procedures in a world where GOOD and EVIL must co-exist and operate equitably.
In a world where death exists, you will pray for a child, and your miracle child will be vulnerable to death. You will beg for wealth, but evil will be forced to feed on it. You will pray for health, but the answer to that prayer will be an answer to diseases that need to feed on that health in this world.
Someone will ask, “Priest, if God is all-powerful, why doesn’t he protect me from all of this?” The response is twofold: we wouldn’t be discussing the cross on which God hangs if God could employ his might in this struggle of salvation for man. In other words, this is a struggle of PRINCIPLES rather than POWERS. Again, because man and the world are one and the same, there is no way for God to save man from the same world that hurts him. This is why, rather than prayer, the ultimate cure is NEW EVERYTHING.
There are people who are still unhappy with the very things on your prayer request list. This implies that there must be something wrong with you that is more serious than what you don’t have or want.
Priest Isaiah White
iTiS Well of Worship Fellowship (John 4:24) 