solidbroda: Yea, I understand @sanboy. But why is it that prayer is not changing the position of poverty in Africa? Why is it that prayer is not changing the unemployment rate? Why why? Can a hard working man who has no Job be rich?
Can a bricklayers who's be praying ever since he's been a bricklayer not working hard enough?
Why is it that the richest people or rich people in the world are those who don't really pray and those who don't actually believe in any God?

Because Satan rules the world. He gives his believers material things right away whereas God like to promise things in the after-life.
If you want things right away you can sell your soul but there is no redemption after that, it will be Hell straight after death...

solidbroda: If satan rules the world, why did God now keep creating us into his world. This is like we are already damned on arrival?

Of course we are, all because of Adam & Eve who ate the fruit thus disobeying to God.

solidbroda: Besides, how many people can be true believers of God if they are in poverty? We have new sayings now that poverty is the root of all evil.

solidbroda: Poverty has been linked to sectarian violence, crime, prostitution, tribalism etc.

I wouldn't really blame poverty for these, I'd say it's more because of envy/coveting. It's because you see people that are better off than you that you envy them, then feelings like anger/injustice will rise in your heart and you'll want to have what they own by all means even by force = violence...

solidbroda: What is the chance of a poor man getting into heaven? So slim. Cos, no matter what a poor man does, he has to survive.

"It's more easy for a camel to pass in a needle's hole than a rich to enter Heaven" says the Bible... God have a good life for poor people but only once they have died, in the after-life.

solidbroda: However, I'm more puzzled when you said that God made heaven for the poor as there own reward "God have a good life for poor people but only once they have died, in the after-life."

I meant that God gave hope to the poor with the eternal life promise, that's why poor endure that kind of life, because they think that they'll be rewarded at the end a.k.a 'death'.
Poor believers also believe that 'God Doesn't give them more than what they can bear.' so all these verse help them to accept the bitter truth of their miserable life....

solidbroda: Are you meaning to say poor people sinners and no sinners are equally and likely to go to heaven?
Are you saying the rich are automatically damned?

Lol of course not, poor sinners will go to Hell and the rich believers can also go to Heaven. BUT the Bible says that it is more easy for the poor to go in Heaven than the rich because of all what the poor has endureth on Earth, they are more likely to be strong believers. The rich, because they have a good life on Earth doesn't realize the benefits of benefits of believing in God since they already have a fulfilled life...

solidbroda: Are u saying being poor is a gift?
And being rich is really a curse?

Well the Bible puts it like that yes. Being poor means that you are more likely to have a strong & unwavering faith in God while being rich you're distracted by material things thus forgetting about God. Do you know the story of 'Lazarus and the poor man' ? That's the perfect example of what I'm saying.

solidbroda: Once you are poor, you are good to go, into heaven of cause.
And being rich, you are going to hell of course.

That's not really what I said, this is a caricature...
It's MORE EASY for the poor to enter Heaven than the rich (see why above).

solidbroda: "Precious treasure and oil are in a wise man's
dwelling, but a foolish man devours it"..prove 21:20. The bible discussed here about being rich and yet being poor is a gateway to heaven

I don't know of that verse but I know what I'm talking about
Too bad I don't know my Bible precisely, I can't quote any verse...

Alfa Seltzer: Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish. – Anonymous

Alfa Seltzer: Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish. – Anonymous

Image123: a noun who does not believe in God is praying fantasy, who is being deceived?

solidbroda:
Answer the question. Besides, do you want to tell us that all your prayer requests for the past 10 years have been answered?

solidbroda: I asked God for a mansion in the Banana islands, yet even I have not smelled the land talkless of dreaming to buy it.
.. I asked God for a Car (Mercedes benz s500 AMG), even till now, nothing of such.
.. I asked God for a diplomatic visa, so that I can travel all around the world. Nothing.
.. I asked God that I want to be a celebrity just like D'banj etc, yet I'm only a celeb maybe among my friends.
.. I asked God that I want a site like facebook, no answer.
.. I asked God that I wanna be the richest man that ever lived. No answer.
.. I asked God for poverty in Africa to be so reduce and we all can communally live together, but yet things get worse
.. I asked God for so many things... Out of maybe 200 of my requests, only few have come to pass only if after I have worked hard for them.

Mathew 7.7 says "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

This bible verse was specific, strait forward. So why do you find lots of people praying for many years and yet no answer?

In some churches, for the past 10 years, they have been praying that witches in Nigeria should fall and die and you can still find out that today, that prayer is still profound. But our witches are waxing stronger. You can even see witches posing on facebook now doing the "swagg" thing.

Churches in Nigeria have prayed against poverty. Can I ask you if poverty has really reduced? Few years ago, poverty in Nigeria was just not high. But today, according to UN, 70% of Nigerians are poor.

So, can the spiritually gifted people explain all these phenomenon?

obadiah777: GOD DONT BLESS PEOPLE IN HELL. YOU ARE UNDER PUNISHMENT. NOW TAKE YOUR PUNISHMENT LIKE A MAN AND QUIT YAPPING LIKE A PUPPY

JeSoul: James 4:3
When you pray for things, you don't get them because you want them for the wrong reason-for your own pleasure.

When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

solidbroda: thank you for your reply. But since I pray against poverty in African nation, against hunger in africa, I pray against diseases also for african etc etc. Are they for my pleasure too so that's why God is not answering U know what going on in most African nations? Churches pray all the time. All these things get worse. What is ur answer on this?

Alfa Seltzer: If you are waiting for a coherent response, you can wait till thy kingdom come.

lol

solidbroda: punishment? What punishment? Atheist achieve more than any religious believer on earth

Alfa Seltzer:

If you are waiting for a coherent response, you can wait till thy kingdom come.

solidbroda: thank you for your reply. But since I pray against poverty in African nation, against hunger in africa, I pray against diseases also for african etc etc. Are they for my pleasure too so that's why God is not answering U know what going on in most African nations? Churches pray all the time. All these things get worse. What is ur answer on this?

obadiah777: AND I REPEAT. THE BLACK MAN IS UNDER PUNISHMENT >>>> AMOS 3 VS 2 You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities >>>>> 1 PETER 4 VS 17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

solidbroda: the same God of you that said he is all loving, is also the same God that what's to kill everyone. What an irony. Who created iniquity? (God said he made all things). Why does ur god wants to destroy us with what he created?
Christian Religion 2.1 billion,
Islam: 1.3 or .5 billion.
Indu almost 1 billion, scientology: 500k etc. So, out of the christian religion, 1 quarter of the population won't go to heaven. Added with the other religion, making over 6billlion souls damned! Now, God will punish billions of soul for the iniquity he created? What!!!

omitusaf:
■ The Bible says that we ask, and do not receive, because we ask amiss (James 4:3). God can only provide for us the things He knows are necessary for us. Of course He can give wealth and other things, but He will never give such things at the detriment of our fellowship with Him. God blesses us to bless others. Majority of us quote Matthew 7: 7 out of context. There is a condition underlying the principle of asking and receiving. This is found in John 15: 7. It is only when we are ''in Christ'' that we have access to His storehouse. Our fellowship with Him must be strong. As we do so, He has pledged to give us all we desire.
It might also require more effort in praying. Don't lose hope. If you ''in Him'', He will surely provide all you ask.Peace.

Amiss

1. : not being in accordance with the right order. : faulty, imperfect.

Sanboy25:
I think that in complement to your prayers, you have to WORK HARD.
A verse says "God doesn't help those that doesn't help themselves." if you're a believer you should continue praying while working in order to achieve these goals.
As for those that have all these things, I can tell you that it's not (only) God who 'blessed' them. Some may have made some kind of contract with the dark side for material things while saying it's God who blessed them...
Be careful and don't lose faith.

■ If satan rules the world, why did God now keep creating us into his world. This is like we are already damned on arrival?
■ Besides, how many people can be true believers of God if they are in poverty? We have new sayings now that poverty is the root of all evil. Poverty has been linked to sectarian violence, crime, prostitution, tribalism etc. What is the chance of a poor man getting into heaven? So slim. Cos, no matter what a poor man does, he has to survive.