Question: "Is it allowable to use candles in connection with prayer?"

Answer: There is no biblical reason why we can’t light candles while we pray or while we do anything else, for that matter. Candles are inanimate objects. They have no power, no strength, and no mystical or supernatural abilities. They are nothing more than wax and a piece of string with maybe some scent added in.

Candles—and other lights such as Christmas decorations—can remind us that Jesus is the Light of the World. Candles can remind us to put our “trust in the Light so that [we] may become sons of Light” (John 12:36). Having a candle burning while we pray might serve to focus our prayers and thoughts on Jesus as the Light of the world.

What candles cannot do, however, is accompany our prayers to heaven, make our prayers more powerful or effective, add anything to our prayers, or pray for us in any way. Candles burning in a Roman Catholic church, for example, are thought to continue the pray-er’s petition long after he/she has left the church. This is unbiblical. Prayer is a conversation with our heavenly Father—a dialogue between two live, conscious, responsive beings who share the same Spirit. No candle can enter into such a relationship.

Candles are used in various types of worship rituals. Witches and shamans, Catholics, new-agers, some Protestants, Jews, Buddhists, and Hindus all use candles in their worship services. Lighting votive candles is also consistent with the emerging worship trends that embrace mystery, mysticism, and entering into reality through experience.

In the end, the use of candles in prayer is innocent in itself. The danger is in ascribing to them a power they simply don’t possess.

Read more: http://www.gotquestions.org/prayer-candles.html#ixzz3AkELnrgA

Bumped.

candle was used for light.. Is it a sin to use bulb in church

There is more to candles than just wax, wool and light.
As Christians we are conscious of spiritual things around us more than physical things.

The flesh (body) we are wearing has much limitations to access the spiritual realms where more disturbing activities take place...

Coloured candles carry spirit invoking powers depending on the assignment you want to be done.

Make I stop here first. I de come.

tobechi20:


candle was used for light.. Is it a sin to use bulb in church

The OP is asking in connection with prayer.

It's a form of offering. Just as there was a lamp in the temple's holiest place. No problem and not using them won't kill a person.

tobechi20:


candle was used for light.. Is it a sin to use bulb in church

Why use candle when you can use a bulb? Except for when you use it in the absence of electricity?

ZKOSOSO:


There is more to candles than just wax, wool and light.
As Christians we are conscious of spiritual things around us more than physical things.

The flesh (body) we are wearing has much limitations to access the spiritual realms where more disturbing activities take place...

Coloured candles carry spirit invoking powers depending on the assignment you want to be done.

Make I stop here first. I de come.

What kind of spirit invoking powers do you mean?

Muafrika2:


It's a form of offering. Just as there was a lamp in the temple's holiest place. No problem and not using them won't kill a person.

Do you have any example in the NT church where candles were used as a form of offering?

OLAADEGBU:


Do you have any example in the NT church where candles were used as a form of offering?

The seven branched

Exodus 40:4 And thou shalt bring in the table, and set in order the things that are to be set in order upon it; and thou shalt bring in the candlestick, and light the lamps thereof.

Every part of the temple was an offering to God, starting from the curtains to the people that served in it. The gold, oil, were given as an offering ...



Ex 35:5 Take ye from among you an offering unto the LORD: whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of the LORD; gold, and silver, and brass, ... 8 And oil for the light, and spices for anointing oil, and for the sweet incense,

Lighting a candle is giving an offering of "light" from the burning of the fire. its no different from offering money, or any other thing a person can wish to treat as an offering to God.

Do you remember when the ark of the covenant was taken from Israel in the time of Saul? It brought a plague on the land of the Philistines, who decided to return it with an offering to end the plague


1 Samuel 6:4 |
Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines: for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.

They did successfully.

Muafrika2:

The seven branched

Exodus 40:4 And thou shalt bring in the table, and set in order the things that are to be set in order upon it; and thou shalt bring in the candlestick, and light the lamps thereof.

Every part of the temple was an offering to God, starting from the curtains to the people that served in it. The gold, oil, were given as an offering ...



Ex 35:5 Take ye from among you an offering unto the LORD: whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of the LORD; gold, and silver, and brass, ... 8 And oil for the light, and spices for anointing oil, and for the sweet incense,

Lighting a candle is giving an offering of "light" from the burning of the fire. its no different from offering money, or any other thing a person can wish to treat as an offering to God.

Do you remember when the ark of the covenant was taken from Israel in the time of Saul? It brought a plague on the land of the Philistines, who decided to return it with an offering to end the plague


1 Samuel 6:4 |
Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines: for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.

They did successfully.

Old Testament .Obsolete form of offering

KingEbukasBlog:


Old Testament .Obsolete form of offering or worship

Jesus came to fulfill the law.

The law was a shadow.

Do you tithe? Is it not obsolete? Same book;

Leviticus 27:32 |

And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the LORD.

Olaadegbu should answer this too.

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OLAADEGBU:
Question: "Is it allowable to use candles in connection with prayer?"

Answer: There is no biblical reason why we can’t light candles while we pray or while we do anything else, for that matter. Candles are inanimate objects. They have no power, no strength, and no mystical or supernatural abilities. They are nothing more than wax and a piece of string with maybe some scent added in.

Candles—and other lights such as Christmas decorations—can remind us that Jesus is the Light of the World. Candles can remind us to put our “trust in the Light so that [we] may become sons of Light” (John 12:36). Having a candle burning while we pray might serve to focus our prayers and thoughts on Jesus as the Light of the world.

What candles cannot do, however, is accompany our prayers to heaven, make our prayers more powerful or effective, add anything to our prayers, or pray for us in any way. Candles burning in a Roman Catholic church, for example, are thought to continue the pray-er’s petition long after he/she has left the church. This is unbiblical. Prayer is a conversation with our heavenly Father—a dialogue between two live, conscious, responsive beings who share the same Spirit. No candle can enter into such a relationship.

Candles are used in various types of worship rituals. Witches and shamans, Catholics, new-agers, some Protestants, Jews, Buddhists, and Hindus all use candles in their worship services. Lighting votive candles is also consistent with the emerging worship trends that embrace mystery, mysticism, and entering into reality through experience.

In the end, the use of candles in prayer is innocent in itself. The danger is in ascribing to them a power they simply don’t possess.

Read more: http://www.gotquestions.org/prayer-candles.html#ixzz3AkELnrgA

Using your candles in CONNECTION to prayer , is in violation of at least 2 of God's commandments given us as the Gospel of the Kingdom of God, and hence makes you guilty of sin against God.

A) Idol worship by attempting to serve two masters... in this case, your belief in candles and God
B) Adding man's doctrines and traditions to God's Law
- by seeking to add that element to God's command, you violate God's command that you not add or remove from His Law in any way or form.

God's Law, Jesus Christ, is quite clear on what the rules concerning prayer are, and He calls on you to trust in and obey them as given you.