^^^

In my usual 'I too sabi' style I will point out to you that I said you learnt "something" not "all things" from their posts..

There you go again committing the same offence that you condemned someone else of- rushing to reply the post without reading it well.

mbaemeka:

I am not only wise in my own eyes. I am wise in God's eyes. I am wise in my Alma mater's eyes (from Nursery to . . .) And I am also wise in your own eyes. It is the Lords doing and it is marvellous in your...you know the rest. Thank you.

He who does not know, and does not know that he does not know, and does not want to know that he does not know.....

mbaemeka: ^^^

In my usual 'I too sabi' style I will point out to you that I said you learnt "something" not "all things" from their posts..

There you go again committing the same offence that you condemned someone else of- rushing to reply the post without reading it well.

Hahaha. Ok. And I didn't mention the other ones you mentioned. . You only assumed. Oya its time to sleep now. Have a blessed night.

trustman:

Where Scripture is quoted and it is refused what does one does do?
To engage in long-winding exchanges?

I'd rather spend my time engaging with others or conducting more productive exercises than burn my time indulging your silly attempts at aggravation. I thought you guys already have a thread for such nonsense? If you have a scripture that speaks of sickness present it. Don't think everyone here is that gullible to swallow your irrelevant responses.

alexleo:
Hahaha. Ok. And I didn't mention the other ones you mentioned. . You only assumed. Oya its time to sleep now. Have a blessed night.

Huh? You really need the sleep. Even for you this is below nonsense. #NoOffence

Goodnight.

*switches in to watch Bill Winston*

nlMediator:

I'd rather spend my time engaging with others or conducting more productive exercises than burn my time indulging your silly attempts at aggravation. I thought you guys already have a thread for such nonsense? If you have a scripture that speaks of sickness present it. Don't think everyone here is that gullible to swallow your irrelevant responses.

My exact thoughts.

mbaemeka:

Huh? You really need the sleep. Even for you this is below nonsense. #NoOffence

Goodnight.

*switches in to watch Bill Winston*

Ah! Bill, no wonder, thought as much,
This divulgence ought to be the thread killer!

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It's now at the point or turned out to be, like someone earlier said:
"The most silliest thread have ever seen. Mtcheeew"

Tufiakwa! Walks out of time wasting, time killer, time destroyer, time stealing thread, never to return.

mbaemeka:

Knowing how to spend my 'entire' tomorrow doesn't mean I know God's will. God's will isn't what always happens. God's will is what God desires to happen. It wasn't God's will to have the woman bent over by the Spirit of infirmity. So when Jesus saw the woman he ensured that God's will be done- which was to get the Demon off the woman. That's clear enough.

God's will is what constantly happens. God says "Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee". He knows every man and woman and all we will do even in the world.

Does God have a plan B? No.

God did not make man robots but even within man's volition man will constantly and eventually walk in the predestined direction God had orchestrated even before the creation of the world.

He knows the people He would call to salvation and He knows the people that will not be saved from the beginning. He said such people are of no excuse, He leaves such people to please themselves from one degree of darkness to another.
Romans 1
28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.

mbaemeka:
You have mentioned complete and absolute picture quite a number of times. I just perused this thread again before replying and I couldn't find a single post that suggests anyone bar God has the full picture. What we have said for certain is that there are certain things God has definitely revealed clearly in his word one of which is that sickness and diseases are not from him. In fact anything that impedes the furtherance of the gospel can NEVER be from God. You can decide to place whatever you think should be there in that box.

Bro, if you can't see the full picture but only a blurry part, how then can you conclude you know the will of God. God has created you for a purpose, you don't know what that purpose is, you can only keep walking as His Spirit leads.

That is why I am against 'prophets' who claim they see things. I have no confidence in them whatsoever because unlike the incomplete information, the word of God gives a full and a sure information about me.
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You will do well if you give me one disciple or apostle of the gospel who lived the sort of opulent lifestyle you try to project.

mbaemeka:

Huh? You really need the sleep. Even for you this is below nonsense. #NoOffence

Goodnight.

*switches in to watch Bill Winston*

I can see your acclaimed happiness radiating all over you because I said I learnt from another brother rather than you wey be "I too sabi". Chai...happiness remix.

alexleo:
I can see your acclaimed happiness radiating all over you because I said I learnt from another brother rather than you wey be "I too sabi". Chai...happiness remix.

I have seen a post from you in the past saying something in the line of having a son or so and because of that I have to assume you are not a child. Or how else can anyone explain this interaction:

You said you learnt from Ayoku777s post (I did too) and then I responded thus:

mbaemeka:
To the pure in heart all things are pure.
Whether you learnt from him or Nlmediator or Gombs I could careless. As long as you learnt something (of the truths in their posts) then my joy is fulfilled.

Then of course you didn't read the post well and replied that you didn't take 100 percent of what they said and only some things to which I referred you again to my post above stating that I said you learnt "something" not "all things" from their post. In other words, I am agreeing with you that you may have not taken all they said and I have no problem with that (revelation is progressive).

Then you gave some Inane reply but I could understand why because you added that you were going to bed. I could only guess you were sleepy when you made the response. Only for me to log in now and see another incoherent reply. Smh

BTW, the person liking your post is the one that said the forbidden fruit was sex that Eve had with the serpent and that the law of God in the bible is "thou shall not eat of the fruit". So when you want to refer to someone who knows nothing and doesn't know that he knows nothing you might as well look at yourself and that poster.

mbaemeka:
Paul was befuddled between staying with the church or going to be with Jesus. At a later stage he said "I have run my course, I have finished my race". He was doing the same thing with our Template Jesus who said his meat was to do the work of the one that sent him and to Finish his work. How could Jesus and Paul tell when they had finished the work? They must have known what the work was..

You are only speculating here... Paul was imprisoned, he knew the time had come to die like any other person in such predicament as he was under incarceration with a guy called Nero. Nero was more Carlos than the Nebuchadnezzar of old, he was a tyrant who killed his own mother, his brother and persecuted Christians like no one ever did. Paul knew he had no chance, he submitted to death as it beckoned.

mbaemeka:
Romans 8 didn't say we don't know how to pray neither did it say we don't know what to pray for. It said we don't know what to pray for AS WE OUGHT to. Which means we OUGHT TO know what to pray for. Jesus said Men OUGHT always to pray and not faint. Which means Men Must/Should pray. So if the same bible says as we ought to know what to pray for then my dear it means we ought to. That's why the Holy Spirit HELPS us to do it. He helps us because we are to know it but sometimes we don't.

My brother, don't twist words written clearly in black and white. We can't pray because we would naturally pray for the comfort of our sinful flesh. Even though God says He will be with us when we go through fire, many don't want to go through the fire at all. We are not ready to mortify our flesh or subject it to pain.

The bible never said the Holy Spirit helps us to do it, it says the Holy Spirit does it on our behalf. Please go back and read it again slowly and with other versions.

mbaemeka:
The role of the Holy Spirit is part of what got lost with some of those threads. In a nutshell- he is a teacher, advocate, standby, intercessor, helper, comforter, strengthener, COUNSELLOR.

Now that you have listed the roles of the Holy Spirit, where did the bible say he will buy you car or make you rich?

Rather, he helps to comfort, strengthen, counsel et al....

Who needs a comforter?

For illustration sake, at times when a woman in pain during child birth goes through pains, there are people around who comfort her one way or the other. They don't take away the pain but they encourage, counsel and what have you.

mbaemeka:
Again with the absolute will. God speaks every day. He knows what your day can be like and he counsels us from within. He is the one who says "this is the way to go" "this is what you should say". Thats my own relationship with God. I don't know about yours.

We shouldn't delude ourselves all in the name of WoF. You are human and the best of men will remain men even at their very best. You have your doubt, you have your sinful senses connected with this world. All you try to interpret as God speaking to you are simply your wishes which are sometimes in contrast with God.

mbaemeka:
When it is time for me to leave this world God will let me know. It will never be random. I will not board a plane and crash and I will not be in a car and have an accident. I will not be sick- infact I cannot be sick. I will not be hit by a bullet or whatever that seems to kill people. I know some people on this thread believe they can die like that and most assuredly they will- for if you believe something in your heart and declare it with your mouth you will have what you say. It is not Wishful thinking my dear- that's exactly what Jesus taught and it applies to every ramifications of life and spirituality. I agree with Gombs. When I study the lives of the Heroes in the bible all of them knew what was coming before they checked out and it wasn't a premonition. I will not have any less of the same Grace. Amen.

Lol.. You are only speaking positive confessions according to WoF doctrine. As we grow our body parts and physical depict and loses its vigour but the spirit man(the real MBA emeka) grows, never fall sick, cannot be hit by bullet.

A Christian can leave this physical and sinful body by any means, be it accident and all you have listed.

shdemidemi:

God's will is what constantly happens. God says "Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee". He knows every man and woman and all we will do even in the world.

Does God have a plan B? No.

God did not make man robots but even within man's volition man will constantly and eventually walk in the predestined direction God had orchestrated even before the creation of the world.

He knows the people He would call to salvation and He knows the people that will not be saved from the beginning. He said such people are of no excuse, He leaves such people to please themselves from one degree of darkness to another.
Romans 1
28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.




Bro, if you can't see the full picture but only a blurry part, how then can you conclude you know the will of God. God has created you for a purpose, you don't know what that purpose is, you can only keep walking as His Spirit leads.

That is why I am against 'prophets' who claim they see things. I have no confidence in them whatsoever because unlike the incomplete information, the word of God gives a full and a sure information about me.
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You will do well if you give me one disciple or apostle of the gospel who lived the sort of opulent lifestyle you try to project.

Boko Haram killings in the north, Talibans in part of the Middle East. Wars in South Sudan, Savage killings in other parts of the world the list is endless. Did God plan all this? Are they God's will on earth? Tread carefully.

The Bible says there is a way that seems right to man but the ends thereof is destruction. Does God will incorporate the destruction of men? Why in the world did Jesus come?

If God didn't make man a robot then that violates the latter part of your reasoning that Every man therefore walks in the orchestrated plan of God for his life. That's also unscriptural and a lie. Which brings me to introduce another truth: every man has 2 destinies really- his destiny without God and his destiny with God. You only discover your destiny in God when you come into Christ. So when you see some of the strange and wicked things that are occuring in the world it is as a result of men who are walking contrary to God's vision for them. That's why prayer (of intercession is important) by doing so we 'cause' people who were otherwise walking contrary to God's will to align to it. An example is Paul. The early church kept praying about the man that was leading the onslaught against them till God arrested him. (You can study it if you haven't). Prior to then Paul was walking contrary to God's will for his life.

There are so many others who have died and gone to hell simply because they walked contrary to God's will for them and God didn't will them to go to hell. No. God wills that all men be saved and come to the knowledge of his son- Jesus Christ.

You have said something about God knowing those who will be saved and what not- Predestination. That is a touchy issue and I would steer clear from it at the moment. Just ask yourself one question- if God already knows those that will be saved and those that would not then why did he still commission us to preach to the whole world?

If you had a relationship with God's Spirit you would know that he doesn't lead you on the bye and bye. He created you as well as every man on earth. He knows all and he can tell you as much as you need to know if you would only tune in to his own frequency (as he is always speaking). Like I said before, many just aren't listening. I know the specific things God expects from me and I have many friends that know so too. Some of those things he said to me years back and flip down the years I have seen them happen. He does the speaking and I do the listening. That's my own relationship with him. I don't know what you mean by full picture or blurry picture.

The word of God is (permit me to say) generic for all christians. It doesn't tell you some specific things about you. Your personal relationship with God will tell you that. For example, God can tell you who not to marry. He can also tell you what company not to work for. He is that specific. He can tell you what to name your child, he can also tell you who to talk to and what to say. Again, that is my own personal experience with the word and I am sure there are some others even on this thread with the same experiences.

I don't know what you mean by 'Opulent' lifestyle but if you are referring to God leading us and telling us things we can go to Noah (concerning the Ark), Abraham (concerning Isaac), Isaac (concerning staying in the land to sow) etc etc. We can go to Paul (who not only knew about his time to check out but was instructed at different times what to say, what not to say, where to go and where not to go etc). The list is really endless.

shdemidemi:

You are only speculating here... Paul was imprisoned, he knew the time had come to die like any other person in such predicament as he was under incarceration with a guy called Nero. Nero was more Carlos than the Nebuchadnezzar of old, he was a tyrant who killed his own mother, his brother and persecuted Christians like no one ever did. Paul knew he had no chance, he submitted to death as it beckoned.




My brother, don't twist words written clearly in black and white. We can't pray because we would naturally pray for the comfort of our sinful flesh. Even though God says He will be with us when we go through fire, many don't want to go through the fire at all. We are not ready to mortify our flesh or subject it to pain.

The bible never said the Holy Spirit helps us to do it, it says the Holy Spirit does it on our behalf. Please go back and read it again slowly and with other versions.



Now that you have listed the roles of the Holy Spirit, where did the bible say he will buy you car or make you rich?

Rather, he helps to comfort, strengthen, counsel et al....

Who needs a comforter?

For illustration sake, at times when a woman in pain during child birth goes through pains, there are people around who comfort her one way or the other. They don't take away the pain but they encourage, counsel and what have you.




We shouldn't delude ourselves all in the name of WoF. You are human and the best of men will remain men even at their very best. You have your doubt, you have your sinful senses connected with this world. All you try to interpret as God speaking to you are simply your wishes which are sometimes in contrast with God.




Lol.. You are only speaking positive confessions according to WoF doctrine. As we grow our body parts and physical depict and loses its vigour but the spirit man(the real MBA emeka) grows, never fall sick, cannot be hit by bullet.

A Christian can leave this physical and sinful body by any means, be it accident and all you have listed.

I am very busy now and would not be able to respond in details.

When you talk about Nero are you suggesting that he was the first to imprison Paul? Paul was imprisoned on so many occasions why didn't he talk about dying all those times? There is nothing like 'he had no chance' when it comes to a christian. All things are POSSIBLE. Didn't you see Paul praise his way out of jail before?

Likewise the SPIRIT HELPETH us in our weaknesses for We know not what to pray for AS WE OUGHT to. . .that verse is clear except you want to twist it like you are accusing me of. Again let me ask another question- Who will God pray to? So who is the Holy Spirit praying to? The Holy Spirit prays through us- that is how he helps us. He doesn't do it on his own. He HELPS us in OUR weakness. In that verse Paul said he does it through groanings that inarticulate. I have experienced it at times at prayer and I was encouraged by a pastor (that I respect) to not stop praying at such points because somethings that I maybe unaware of will be getting settled without my cognizance (I am going too spiritual now)

LOL @ your analogy. Go and study the verse well where Jesus said he will pray the father and he will send another 'comforter'. The preceding verse Jesus said I won't leave you as Orphans. He was saying he will send someone else who will be EXACTLY like me only difference is he will be IN You. The word he used was I won't leave you ORPHANOS I will pray the father and he will send ALLOS PARAKLETOS- another one of the SAME KIND. Please study.

God counsels me from my spirit. My Spirit has been recreated in righteousness and has been fed the word. I know when my mind is talking and I know when God is talking from my spirit. Most times they are at war and few times I let my mind win but for the most part (as I grew in the word) I let my spirit win. There are sometimes that I would be too tired to pray yet my spirit would be troubled. At such times my mind reminds me about how tired I am and why I should sleep. On many occasions when I yield to the leading of the spirit I start seeing some people dear to me in my prayers. When I pray about them and I hand it over to God I usually hear later that so and so's estate was robbed but nobody was hurt or so and so was involved in an accident but he/she came out unhurt. That's my own experience. If you don't experience such I don't envy you.

Sure my physical body is aging- no arguments there but Gods spirit also vitalizes me and keeps me healthy. When I get attacked by sickness I use the name of Jesus and many times the symptoms go immediately. At some other times they take time but they always eventually go. I have also taken medicine but I really cannot remember when last. That's also my personal experience.

Jesus said if you believe in your heart (without doubting) and you say to a mountain move from here to yonder place it will and NOTHING shall be IN POSSIBLE unto you. The principle is to believe in your heart without doubting and speak with your mouth. I am just emulating Jesus. If it qualifies me as WOF no wahala. I accept.

Got to go. (Forgive any typos. . .will edit later)

The thread talks about the issue of disappointment to apparent unanswered prayer.
Some would claim they can always know and be in 'charge' of their situations so they would always have positive situations. Even when there are what appear to be contrary to their 'good' living they shrug it off. They then live in denial.
For example:
What state is "when a person gets attacked by sickness"?

- Is the person sick?
- Is the person suspecting (or having premonition) that he will be sick?
- Or is the statement "gets attacked" being stingy with words?

If such a person can "rule and dominate all the wiles of the devil" and can even do things "without even praying at all" then why should the attack even happen in the first place?

Has God completely ceded to man the control of his situations or does God HAVE THE RIGHT to intervene as he deems fit - either to allow pleasant or unpleasant things?

How do they say it? You can't stop a bird from flying over your head. But it is your duty to prevent it from defecating on it.

Those that are wise will use their tongue to count their teeth.

mbaemeka:

I have seen a post from you in the past saying something in the line of having a son or so and because of that I have to assume you are not a child. Or how else can anyone explain this interaction:

You said you learnt from Ayoku777s post (I did too) and then I responded thus:



Then of course you didn't read the post well and replied that you didn't take 100 percent of what they said and only some things to which I referred you again to my post above stating that I said you learnt "something" not "all things" from their post. In other words, I am agreeing with you that you may have not taken all they said and I have no problem with that (revelation is progressive).

Then you gave some Inane reply but I could understand why because you added that you were going to bed. I could only guess you were sleepy when you made the response. Only for me to log in now and see another incoherent reply. Smh

BTW, the person liking your post is the one that said the forbidden fruit was sex that Eve had with the serpent and that the law of God in the bible is "thou shall not eat of the fruit". So when you want to refer to someone who knows nothing and doesn't know that he knows nothing you might as well look at yourself and that poster.

Ohhh...another long story. I guess its your hubby. Enjoy bros

I am sure you must have asked yourself or your Pastor this simple but very vital question time and again with probably, no meaningful answers gotten.

WHY ME?
There are even more burning questions you have asked:
'Why does God feel so unconcerned about my troubles?'
'Why do I pray and I don't get answers?'
'Why does God 'fail' me when I need Him the most?'
'Why is there so much wickedness in the world, is there really God?'
'Why do I as a Believer fail in life while the ungodly and wicked people prosper and achieve so much, am I missing something?'

'Why... why... why............'

If only you could give ten (10) minutes of your time reading this special message, we would both quickly 'see' and understand why God seems 'incapable' of helping us, as we so often erroneously believe.

Before now, you may have been taught, heard or read about God from various articles, impressions that have created a not-too-correct mental perspective of whom God is perceived to be.


So we will start by asking ourselves, 'Who is GOD?"

WHO IS GOD?
Firstly, I would want you to understand that the definition of who God is, is simply an individualistic issue.
Who you know God to be is likely to be different from who/what I know Him to be.
To one person, He is a God with gentle whispering (1 Kings 19:11-13) and to another a God who roars with a thunderous voice (Exodus 19:16-20). To one, He is a righteous Protector (Psalm 7:10-11), to another a partial Judge (Job 21:4-22).

Secondly, it is common knowledge that there are many attributes and names of God Almighty, who is known to be the creator of the Universe and the only True GOD whom we must all worship, obey and acknowledge in everything we do.

One of the most vital attributes of God is that once He promises a thing, His word never goes unfulfilled.
Once He promises to do a thing, he will SURELY bring His word to pass.
Surprisingly however, we find that sometimes, His promises in our lives don't come to fulfillment because somehow, we have failed to keep our part of the bi-lateral bargain by being disobedient to His command.

As an example, God told the LEVITES in Biblical times that they will constitute His specially chosen Priesthood forever but He later told Eli the High Priest, a Levite, that that promise no longer holds because they (the Levites, through the family of Eli the High Priest) broke their part of the covenant by dishonoring God. ( Please read 1 Samuel 2:27-36).

When God promises you a thing, you always automatically have your own part to play, namely: honor and obey Him!

Thirdly, every man or woman that the Lord God has created, was created with pleasant goodness, blessings and good fortune all built-in into that person's life trip.

God destined everyone for a purpose and your happiness in life is built into your divine purpose and your willingness to obey God at fulfilling that purpose.
"For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope."(Jeremiah 29:11).
Anyone who fails to fulfill his/her divine purpose (which also known as, 'doing God's will') can expect to have varying degrees of failure in life because such a person is out of God's plan and provisions.

THE GREAT QUESTION
So now, I am sure you are already asking, "...if God truly has pleasant and lofty plans for me, then why has these array of disasters, failures and disappointments befallen me?"

THE ANSWERS
There are actually more than a million answers to the great question asked above but we shall look at the three (3) most important answers given below:

Answer 1
God does not honor us if we fail to Honor Him.
Honoring God means several things. We must acknowledge God as the 'OWNER' of our lives and worship Him with our very essence (everything that we are or hope to be, everything that we have or hope to have).
We are like clay-works in the hands of God the Master Potter, we have no right to criticize Him or question His authority. He can bend us in any direction He so wishes (Romans 9: 20-24).
If we truly obey Him and glorify Him in our current situation, then He is sure to uplift and glorify us too. Failure to honor Him automatically brings shame, disasters and turbulence our way in life.

Answer 2
We must accept that God is aware of our current situation and that it is only a trial phase that shall soon be over.
The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 10:11,

"But remember that the temptations that come into your life are no different from what others experience. And God is faithful. He will keep the temptation from becoming so strong that you can't stand up against it. When you are tempted, he will show you a way out so that you will not give in to it."

The Bible gives a vivid account of WHY WE ARE TEMPTED in the book of Job (Read Job chapters 1-3). Sometimes, God Himself purposely sets a trial of faith for us to see how much trust we have in Him. At such trying times, we MUST still acknowledge His faithfulness and continue to trust, worship, praise and obey Him, else, we fail the test.
In Job's trial (Job 1:1-22), God permitted Satan to test him severally, but in all the tests, Job stood his ground of faithfulness and God blessed him more in the end than he was blessed before the series of tests.

Testing from God is akin to taking a class examination. When we pass, we are automatically promoted to a higher level and we become better than we were initially.

Answer 3
We need to trust in God's love and plan for our lives by having faith in both Him and in His beloved Son Jesus Christ.
When we exercise our trust in Him through our faith (simply put, trust=faith), we are simply assuring inner self that we are already connected to the divine source of all good things that we desire and hence, the download of endless benefits is just about to begin. To exercise true faith is to exercise true love for God Himself is Love.
When we love our neighbors sincerely, then we are already strongly connected to the download link and nothing can stop us at getting whatsoever we want from our loving Father in Heaven while we also get favors from men!

Mark 11:22-25 says...
22 Then Jesus said to the disciples, “Have faith in God. 23 I assure you that you can say to this mountain, 'May God lift you up and throw you into the sea,’ and your command will be obeyed. All that's required is that you really believe and do not doubt in your heart. 24 Listen to me! You can pray for anything, and if you believe, you will have it. 25 But when you are praying, first forgive anyone you are holding a grudge against, so that your Father in Heaven will forgive your sins, too.”

Even if your faith is little, God is willing to help you build it up, but you need to first allow Him into your life and ways.
He is interested in your finance, business, health, family and relationships but you must note that He will not intrude unless you specifically invite Him in by praying to Him and committing your day-to-day affairs into His care.

YOUR MASTER KEY
God has a deep and loving interest in you, beyond your wildest imaginations!
Put your focus on Him concerning all your life's troubles and you shall be happy indeed.
Your help will not come from a Prophet, Pastor, or any Spiritualist but your true and lasting help comes only from the Lord Almighty.
Matthew 16:19 has a special assurance for you:
"And I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. Whatever you lock on earth will be locked in heaven, and whatever you open on earth will be opened in heaven.”

Indeed, whatever you ask of you father in Heaven, such shall you receive.....if only you will turn your FAITH to Him NOW.

And now,
HE IS HERE TO HELP YOU
Say this short prayer:

'God Almighty, the creator of Heaven and Earth
Creator of all entities, living and non-living, seen and unseen
The owner of the breath of life in me
My Protector and Provider
You sent your son Jesus Christ into the world as an holy sacrifice
For the remission of my sins
So that I might be drawn closer to you without a blemish
I believe in You my Father
That You are more than sufficient for my needs
I put my trust and faith in you
And in your everlasting Love
That You alone can save, protect and provide for me
I therefore look upon You this day
Yes
I put my entire trust in You through my faith in the name of your beloved son Jesus Christ
You are greater than all the worries of my life
Today I stand on your promise to help me
I believe in You to deliver me from all my troubles and anxieties
And on my part, I shall follow no other God but You and You alone
I shall neither consider their names in my heart nor upon my lips
Please strengthen me to fulfill this promise before You this day and evermore
I believe my prayers are answered already
For You are here with me right now
No longer shall I doubt your faithfulness in my heart
Thank You Lord for I know
My prayers are answered
In Jesus' Mighty name I have prayed
Amen.'

If you have said this prayer with faith and sincerity in your heart, I congratulate you!
You have just committed all your worries to your true Father and Creator, the endless source of all good things.
In a few days from now, you will begin to witness some positive manifestations of the power and awesomeness of God Almighty concerning a miraculous turn-around of your situation.

However, be warned that God is not a Magician. He is a God of 'due process' because He is a just God. What that means is that don't expect your miracle(s) overnight.
For certain, be assured it will come and at God's appointed time for it. Know that God's time is always the best.
Therefore, rejoice always and praise God at every slight opportunity you have for that is the ONLY way to move the hand of the Lord Almighty to work faster in your favor.

REMEMBER:
Acknowledge, honor, praise and pray to Him everyday. Make it a HABIT to do all these things as part of your daily routine and you shall always be blessed in all your endeavors.

Shalom!

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If disappointment would help you find peace in yourself, then... by all means, be disappointed in God, he doesn't hold such against anyone. Peace.

God is always good.

'Whatsoever a man sows, such shall he rip', so says the Holy books.

God can not be mocked. If a man or woman does what is right and just (with sincerity of purpose in his/her heart), God will certainly visit him or someone in his/her generation with recompense for what that person has done.
Sometimes, it is the children or grandchildren that get the payback for the deeds of their long dead parents or great grand parents.

This is clearly outlined in the Bible where in the book of Exodus.
God says, 'I am a jealous God who visits the sins of the fathers on the children up to the fourth generation'.

This means that the evils that a man or woman does in his/her lifetime may bring untold miseries and misfortunes to the living children and even to innocent great grand children born into that family much later in the future for sins, transgressions and crimes they know absolutely nothing about.
This is the origin of[b] 'GENERATIONAL CURSES' [/b]which is the root cause of what a lot of unsuspecting troubled individuals are battling with today.

This is why such people, out of ignorance of what is causing them disaster after disaster, serial disappointments in business and relationships and failure in various spheres of life where their contemporaries are 'making it', are asking aloud in perplexity and killing frustration,

"God, why me... what did I do wrong.... Who did I offend"

Of course, my beloved Sister/Brother, it was not you but your parents/grandparents or worse still, your ancestors who made some wrong choices leading to sin, the results of which you are now suffering. How sad! How wicked? How unfair? (.... did I hear you say?).

Even God's own chosen people, the Israelites, were not left out from this natural law of Karma/retribution when God informed their as yet barren but would-be Ancestor, Abraham in biblical times, that his offspring were going to serve as slaves in a foreign land for not 1 or 2 but for 400 long years of untold hardship!
This 'hint' or 'a glimpse into the future', if you like, came after God had chosen, called and promised Abraham through an everlasting covenant that he (Abram who was later renamed Abraham) was going to become a father of 'MANY NATIONS' and that he would become so great that nations of the Earth would be blessed by his name and his blessings. Gen. 12: 2-3, Gen. 17:1-8.

At first, he must have thought himself VERY LUCKY to have been called and blessed by God from so many other people available but having that same God telling him that those children who will come out of him will first become SLAVES in a foreign land FOR 400 YEARS, must have created a whirlwind of questions in his human mind along with doubts about God's sincerity and love for him or otherwise.
He must have asked, 'What sort of a God is this?'

To start with, these are children that have not yet been born to him, as he was still childless at the time.
If they were yet unborn, that should mean they were 'sinless'.
So then, why would God want to punish these so-called 'sinless', innocent, ones by throwing them both into captivity and enslavement (with hard labor) for 400 crazy years? Wetin dem do nah, abi which kind wahala bi dis

No doubt, they were indeed sinless but God wanted to visit the sins and transgressions of Abraham's father, Terah, who was an ardent Idol worshiper throughout his lifetime, on the children of Abraham being one of the two surviving sons of the sinful father, Terah.
Abraham had two brothers, Nahor and Haran, born of the same sinful father. Haran took after his sinful father's ways and God killed him in his early youth after his son, Lot, was born to him.

Abraham never liked Idol worshiping in the first place and did not follow in his father's sinful ways, so that made him find favor with God.
So, God visited him to bless him, but first, he was asked to leave and completely abandon his sinful father's estate and all his relatives and travel through God's divine direction to an 'unknown' blessed land (Canaan-land flowing with milk and honey).
Please read the book of Genesis chapter 12 from verse 1 to 3 (Gen. 12:1-3).

All through the Bible, it is on record that Abraham as a God-fearing individual enjoyed an amazing trusting and sinless relationship with God, hence, he was often called the 'FATHER OF FAITH'.

Unfortunately, the natural laws of KARMA that God was to visit on the sins and idol worshipping practices of Terah, the father of Abraham, and even Terah's own father Nahor who brought up Terah in the ways of worshiping idols meant that the children and grand children of Nabor (and likewise Terah) up to the fourth generation were going to suffer for the sins of their fathers!

In the case of Terah's children, Abraham was to have been a member of the first generation that God was to punish, but because he found favor with God, God exempted him, exempted his son Isaac in the 2nd generation, exempted Jacob and Essau the twins in the 3rd generation and finally, exempted the 12 children of Jacob who later became renamed as Israel and the 12 children became the founding fathers of the 12 tribes from which the nation of Israel was made!

From Abraham to the 12 children of Jacob, the 4-generation cycle of exemption became complete, now was time for God to begin the visitation of the sins of Abraham's sinful father on the newly upcoming generations.
Hence, the story goes that one thing leads to another (Remember the popular story of Joseph the dreamer who became the Prime Minister in Egypt? Read Gen. 41) and the generations after the 12 children of Jacob found themselves in Egypt, enslaved and working under inhuman conditions to please the Pharaoh's lofty fantasies and crazy ambitions for 400 years just as God had predicted to Abraham. Read Exodus 1:8-14

But why the number 400? Why 400 years?
After the flood of Noah, God made a covenant with Noah that He, God, shall not send a deluge of water to wipe out humanity anymore and this was after He had said that the lifespan of man will now be limited to 120 years. Gen. 6:3

The 120 years or approximately 100 years (plus, minus) is taken to be the time-span of 1 generation, hence for 4 generations, the time-span will be 480 years or approximately 400 years. The children of Israel were actually enslaved for 430 years in Egypt. Read Exodus 12:40-41.

God is truly a forgiving God but when it comes to visiting the iniquities and sins of the fathers on their children, He can be very firm on the 4-generation punishment/purging cycle.

As a standard, Exodus 20:5 says,
"You shall not bow yourself down to them (Idols), nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me."

Read also Exodus 34:7 which in describing God, says,
" ...keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generation."

Additionally, read Genesis 15:16, Numbers 14:18, Deuteronomy 5:9, 2 Kings 10:30, all on the same issue.

In other words, when God told Abraham that his seed (children) shall be enslaved in a strange land for 400 years, He was indirectly foretelling Abraham that He, God, had chosen to visit the sins of Abraham's father, Terah, on 4 generations down Abraham's seedline. Read Genesis Chapter 15 verse 13.
He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them for four hundred years..."

In the above biblical quote, God told Abraham assuredly with all certainty, by adding "Know for sure..." that the matter was fixed and there was no way out of it because it was a law of the Heavens that the children must suffer for their fathers misdeeds and the misdeeds of Abraham's fathers, Nahor and Terah, is clearly stated in Joshua 24:2.

Returning to the present, the biblical laws of God still hold true to this day.
If you are going through terrible experiences that defy understanding or logical reasoning, you may be suffering for the misdeeds of your great grand parents which you know absolutely nothing about!

If you have ever labeled God as[b] 'WICKED', 'UNKIND', 'UNFAIR', 'PARTIAL', 'UNJUST'[/b] etc in your unpalatable and disturbing circumstance, please take back your words and ask Him to FORGIVE you and ALL that pertains to YOU including your PAST (where your sinful long dead fathers belong) and your PRESENT (where you yourself may be suffering for your own sins).

If you are suffering for a sin you know nothing about simply because a past father put the debt on you, it is not the end of the world for you because, if you walk right with God and serve Him properly in all sincerity of heart and purpose, God in His infinite mercy can exempt you from the 4-generation sin punishment cycle, just as He exempted Abraham and the direct four generation directly linked to him.

Generational curses are simply chains of 4-generation sin punishment cycles that run in families.
If we do nothing about them as a way of stopping them, they simply keep recycling forever. This is a natural law.

When an individual decides to break free from it, He (or she) takes along multitudes of souls and several thousands of yet unborn generations who were present in that person's loins (eggs/sperm cells) in that generation and time.
Breaking free is not always easy. No one said it was going to be easy anyway.

Breaking free means:
1. You must first identify that you are in a deadly 4-generation cycle of perpetual punishment and retrogression.
2. You must try to[b] identify what is wrong with your foundation or current stand. [/b]For instance, Armed robbery, prostitution etc runs in the family.
3. You must identify the punishment PATTERN because there is always a pattern! For instance, no one gets beyond the age of 50 in your family, no one marries at the right age in your family unless there already above 45, Serial divorces run in your family, still-birth and high infant mortality runs in your family, wives in your family don't easily get pregnant unless they have visited all the shrines and temples, no one ever graduates in your family, children in your family happily disgrace their parents and they are always headstrong and wayward, after haven labored hard on the children's education parents in your family don't live to the ripe old age to enjoy the fruits of their labor, there is a so-and-so disease that kills members of your family ... yes, it runs in the family.
4. You must identify an exit doorway to bring yourself out of the pattern of punishment and into God's everlasting love and grace.
(i)You may need to abandon your family old traditions, or move away from your current locality where you are known with something or anything relating to that pattern, for example, "Oh, here comes Amaka, the younger sister to that lady that wedded at the age of 46 last weekend after 5 disappointments".
(ii) You may need to change your name to a fresh and new one. The Bible is replete with several examples of name changes involving individuals that God had determined to bless exceedingly with such examples as Sarai-Sarah, Abram-Abraham, Jacob-Israel.
(iii) You may need to change your profession to a more God-fearing one or do business in a more truthful manner.
(iv) You may need to review your current way, manner and place of worshiping God. Are you truly worshiping God or serving idols in your current way of worship. Or are you mixing black with white? Let your white be pure and truly white. Worship God in purity, truth and sincerity laced with love.
(v) What is your purpose on earth and indeed your divine calling? Are you living the life that God has made you for? If your answer is 'No' or 'Not sure', that in itself is enough reason to have myriads of 'crazy' problems and lack of joy and fulfillment in your life. No matter how well you serve God or work hard in your business, you can not excel in life if you have rooted yourself on the wrong foundation or footing. A train will always find itself at the wrong destination if it was never on the right rail-track no matter how fast or super-fast it is!
(vi) Develop and establish a personal relationship with your creator, your God, your very own personal God, friend and confidante.
When you have a personal relationship with God, a direct-link will exist between both of you and you will soon discover how easy it is to commune with God who is always there for you as a loving friend and confidante you can always trust.

He says in Revelations 3:20,
"Behold, I stand at the door and knock. if anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him and he with me".

God wants you to trust in Him and believe in Him that He wants only the best and nothing but the best for you.
You should run to Him and take his son Jesus as you advocator and personal savior today.
Never forget that He won't force Himself on you unless you open the doors of your heart to Him to let Him into your life and general affairs.

(vii) You should meditate in your heart/mind on the word and message(s) of God every time as He is there and ever willing to direct your steps through all your decision making processes everyday.
When you allow God to be the DRIVER of the vehicle of your life, and you don't struggle for the STEERING WHEEL with Him, He always steers you clear of danger and life's troubles. He gets you safely to your divine destination in one happy piece, looking fresh and un-ruffled.
Read Psalms 1:1-3. For that man or woman who meditates on the word of God day and night, the Bible says,
"...whatever he does, he shall prosper".
God's guidance and revelation come in various ways, through dreams, hearing voices, seeing visions or even from watching movies and listening to friends as they 'jist us'. Somewhere along the lines of our friend's jist or from the conversation in a movie, God will touch our heart and reveal deep secrets about mysterious issues or solution to certain problems to us.

(viii) Stop and ask yourself, "Who am I?"
When you close your eyes and ears to all the distractions of society, business, sports, religion, family etc, then you will discover that there are voices you can only hear when you plug (block) your ears and there are visions you can only see when your shut your eyes.

The inner person in you begs for expression. Your inner YOU is the real you. No matter what you do or how well you try to live, if your lifestyle is in disharmony with the way your inner YOU had been wired by God to live, you will only end up living and unhappy and disjointed life of broken dreams and disappointments. This is why a lot of people do everything to acquire wealth or jump from one career to another, or date innumerable number of pretty ladies yet they can't find happiness or fulfillment. They live a miserable life and can't find peace in their heart because they can always feel the emptiness, the feeling that 'something' is missing but what that 'something' is, they do not know.
The primary and in my opinion the only cause for natural suicide is nothing else but that feeling of 'something is missing'. The troubled individual searches high and low for answers to many of life's 'unanswered' questions and because it appears to them as though the answers are truly not available, they lose their drive to go on living. One of the most paramount of such life's many 'unanswered' questions is, "Who am I, what is my purpose?"

No one can tell you who you truly are or what you are here on earth to do. They can only make guesses or at best pass you some useful but sparse hints.

Life can be likened to the birthday gift of a brand new Samsung or Blackberry smart phone. Friends can only suggest what SIM/NETWORK you should use it on. But even if they succeeded at making that decision for you, you must decide on your own what amount of credit you want to load on it. You must also decide on your own what desktop background image and ringtone you want to apply on your new phone. The decision on who to call or not to call on your phone is entirely up to you. You also decide how long you want your call conversations to last, after all, it is your phone!

Friends and family can only suggest what they think might be good options for you but the choices are actually up to you.
Just as you may not get the best out of your new sophisticated state-of-the-art SmartPhone without reading through its User Manual or atleast, going through its settings and understanding its user configurable options, the same goes for each of us as human beings; we must each understand our functions, purpose and settings.

There is a popular quote that,
"Where the purpose of a thing is not known, abuse is inevitable".

You may end up abusing yourself (thereby giving a free pass to others to abuse you just as well) if you do not know your purpose and why God had deposited so much beauty, intelligence or special abilities in you.
That said, when you are not in synchronicity with who you should be, your INNER PERSON lives at variance and in total disunity with your OUTER SELF. This is the root cause of intra-personal conflicts. Affected individuals can have very unstable character traits... one moment they are gentle and quiet, the next moment they are highly temperamental and going bananas for no reasons understandable.

(ix) Love yourself and apply love with others.
Love yourself truly and learn to also love and tolerate other people... even those you consider as your adversaries.
The Bible advices that we "follow peace with all men".

When you love other people genuinely, it becomes so extremely easy to love God and do His will. This is because virtually all the laws of God and holiness are centered around helping others and not hurting other people. For example, don't steal, don't kill, don't take your neighbor's wife, don't lie falsely against anyone etc.
If you don't harm other people, you will always have a good KARMA or goodwill around you and the love and favor of God will also abound in your life. When you do good always, help other people and show true love to all, it gets very easy for you to find favor in the sight of God and even if you came from a background that had been condemned into serial 4-generation cycles of generational curse and retrogression, God will quickly exempt and the future children you carry in your eggs or sperm cells.

In conclusion,
whatever terrible challenges you are facing right now, do not call call unprintable names.
Investigate your backgrounds and move to new and better grounds if your foundations were broken and hopeless.
God is ever ready and welcome you on His bandwagon of achievers and happy children.

God has not condemned you nor has He said your hopeless story is unchangeable.
Make the necessary u-turn today away from 'the same old ways' into a new and fresh lifestyle of joyous and hopeful living in the light of God's love and grace for your life.


Be a change agent in your generation and for those to come afterwards!
Shalom!!!

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Gombs:
....If your faith is weak then it will take a longer time. If your faith is small, it will take a longer time because the Bible says when the edge of a machete is blunt, you must apply more force. Something you should have cut with one swipe, when the faith is sharp, it goes and it cuts once. But when your faith is blunt, you try to cut two, three or four times because it’s blunt; that’s it. If it is working, once is enough but if it is not working you have to cut many times. So if your faith is working, a short time is enough, if it’s not working it takes a long time.

Scripture states that God does not answer the prayers of the unrighteous; the pleas and requests and every petition of the unrighteous are tainted by their sins(disobedience/unholiness) and are hence an abomination to God. So, what is definite is that even your many pleas for the forgiveness of sins are not answered by God given that God made no special exemptions for that kind of pleas. No amount of praying can cause God to change His mind regarding that which concerns the unrighteous by the way. So if you are thinking of prescribing more prayers that only means you really don't understand or know God at all.

God, however, openly bragged about how He only answers the prayers of the righteous; He delights in granting them the desires of their heart meaning that they are those who are loved by Him. For this very reason, Jesus Christ urged His followers to seek first the Kingdom of God and God's Righteousness in order that all things— the blessings and rewards of the Kingdom of God(holiness), answers to prayers included—shall be added on to them. And as Jesus Christ explained in His Gospel, the only way to become Holy, and then also Righteous, is by way of continuous submission and obedience to the teachings and commandments of Jesus Christ, god's Truth and Law in the Kingdom of god - John 8 vs 31 - 36 & John 14 vs 15 - 23. Jesus Christ is the only way. Obedience to the Truth of God is the one and only path to righteousness. No amount of praying and other religious rituals can accomplish that.

Also, you need to understand the meaning of the word "amiss" in order to realize what James was instead trying to tell you in that verse that you pulled from his epistle. If you consult Webster's dictionary, you will find that the word means to be in an imperfect state, a state that is not in the right order aka unrighteous.

Amiss

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

What James was saying in that verse is that the reason you do not receive from God is that you are asking in an unrighteous state—a state that is not in accordance with God's mandate of righteousness. So, clearly, you cannot benefit anything from remaining in an unrighteous state as far as God is concerned. That is what God said, and James reiterated it in that verse there.

lomaxx:
I stopped reading when I got to this line How do you know accurately that the problem is ALWAYS on the receiving end? How do you know?
In a transmission line, a problem could arise from the sender's end or the receiving end, but when you say that the receiving end is ALWAYS the problem....you've got some real explaining to do.

Not trying to hold brief for OP'S write-up which I think is ludicrous by the way, but this your rebuttal about problems with transmission lines got me laughing.

Scripture states that God does not answer the prayers of the unrighteous; the pleas and requests and every petition of the unrighteous are tainted by their sins(disobedience/unholiness) and are hence an abomination to God. So, what is definite is that even your many pleas for the forgiveness of sins are not answered by God given that God made no special exemptions for that kind of pleas. No amount of praying can cause God to change His mind regarding that which concerns the unrighteous by the way. So if you are thinking of prescribing more prayers that only means you really don't understand or know God at all.

God, however, openly bragged about how He only answers the prayers of the righteous; He delights in granting them the desires of their heart meaning that they are those who are loved by Him. For this very reason, Jesus Christ urged His followers to seek first the Kingdom of God and God's Righteousness in order that all things— the blessings and rewards of the Kingdom of God(holiness), answers to prayers included—shall be added on to them. And as Jesus Christ explained in His Gospel, the only way to become Holy, and then also Righteous, is by way of continuous submission and obedience to the teachings and commandments of Jesus Christ, god's Truth and Law in the Kingdom of god - John 8 vs 31 - 36 & John 14 vs 15 - 23. Jesus Christ is the only way. Obedience to the Truth of God is the one and only path to righteousness. No amount of praying and other religious rituals can accomplish that.

Also, you need to understand the meaning of the word "amiss" in order to realize what James was instead trying to tell you in that verse that you pulled from his epistle. If you consult Webster's dictionary, you will find that the word means to be in an imperfect state, a state that is not in the right order aka unrighteous.

Amiss

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

What James was saying in that verse is that the reason you do not receive from God is that you are asking in an unrighteous state—a state that is not in accordance with God's mandate of righteousness. So, clearly, you cannot benefit anything from remaining in an unrighteous state as far as God is concerned. That is what God said, and James reiterated it in that verse there.

People, God answers prayers. My immediate junior brother just got healed of HIV. We never Gave up. We held unto God's word. We kept reminding him of his healing promises. Even when my bro got worse, we kept praising God for answered prayers. People, words can't really express how we feel right now. Indeed there is a God. Believe it or not. He was tested thrice in 3 different diagnostic centres, all positive. Just last Friday, it came out negative. Even though it's what we've been praying for, we ( he n I ) were skeptical. Lol. We went to another hospital, the following Tuesday, still negative. Now my faith has really soared. I tell this to any one who cares to listen. Hahaha. Somebody pls help me praise this God.

I hope your brother is still doing well today.

lomaxx:
■ Unfortunately you still haven't answered my first question. Why are you people always evasive??

Religion tends to do that.

Kobojunkie:
Religion tends to do that.

A massively consumed opium

nlMediator:
■ There’s no such thing as everybody will die when they will die. If you see where it’s in the Bible, please point it to me.
■ We Christians like the easy way out which includes accepting the devil’s nonsense so that we’ll not be ridiculed, instead of rejecting it in prayer and exercising our authority over evil powers. Countless number of people have been kept from dying after a sentence of death by the doctors or even evil forces because of the prayers of the children of God or by better medical intervention. Even in Africa and the developing world, many children die that would have lived if there was adequate hygiene and medical attention. When they die, we claim everybody will die some day in one way or another.. As though the kids that are living in the developed world live under a different dispensation from the African kids.

1. But technically, we will all die when it is time to die.

2. Exercising authority over evil powers? What has evil powers to do with death which was instead instituted by God Himself?

qstar:
■ I laugh when i hear Christians talk about death premonition. This is a christians' thread, so i do not want to be much of a bete-noire. My Christian neighbour did a thanksgiving ceremony in his church some years back. His testimony was that after boarding a flight, he got a "premonition" from God, that the flight was gonna crash. He withdrew from taking the flight and that craft eventually crashed, nobody survived. Now, is this his alleged premonition from God? And if it's from God, what kind of God is this? killing everybody on board and only my neighbour coincidentally missed it. I was happy for him though. But, i was marvelled at "why" he should be making a party out of it. To be objective and honest. Nobody is worth more than the total number of people in an aircraft. If i was given such premonition, i'd rather sacrifice myself than allow everybody die.

If we are being honest, we will admit that such premonitions are not in any way unique to Christians as even pagans and unbelievers equally report having such visions. If we are to assume they are all from God, then certainly it instead means that your neighbor is wrong to interpret it as meaning that God considered his life more precious than that of others who perished on that flight. A more logical explanation, considering the Truths of God, is that it was simply not his time to go. Will he eventually go? Absolutely!

@OP.. you should ask yourself.. have you used what God-given talents you have before expecting an answer from him.. it is like asking your teacher what is 1+1 when he knows you can count already ..

You see, Scripture states that God does not answer the prayers of the unrighteous; the pleas and requests and every petition, praise, offering, work, plea, sacrifice, etc., of the unrighteous are tainted by their sins(disobedience/unholiness) and are hence an abomination to God. So, what is definite is that even your many pleas for the forgiveness of sins are not answered by God given that God made no special exemptions for that kind of plea. No amount of praying can cause God to change His mind regarding that which concerns the unrighteous by the way. So if you are thinking of prescribing more prayers that only means you really don't understand or know God at all.

God, however, openly bragged about how He only answers the prayers of the righteous; He delights in granting them the desires of their heart meaning that they are those who he loves. For this very reason, Jesus Christ urged His followers to seek first the Kingdom of God and God's Righteousness in order that all things— the blessings and rewards of the Kingdom of God(holiness), answers to prayers included—shall be added on to them. And as Jesus Christ explained in His Gospel, the only way to become Holy, and then also Righteous, is by way of continuous submission and obedience to the teachings and commandments of Jesus Christ, god's Truth and Law in the Kingdom of god - John 8 vs 31 - 36 & John 14 vs 15 - 23. Jesus Christ is the only way. Obedience to the Truth of God is the one and only path to righteousness. No amount of praying and other religious rituals can accomplish that.

God deals indirectly with the unrighteous, the same way He deals with the unbelievers including the wicked and the ungrateful and that is by pouring out His mercy and kindness on them daily. So every time as an unrighteous you feel that God has answered your prayer know that at that same moment, or moments before that, God also provided the same mercy or similar to someone else across the world — or maybe just across from you— who does not even believe in God, nor asked God for anything. So, if answers from God are what you seek, then do what Jesus Christ said you should, which is to seek first the Kingdom of God(holiness), and then God's righteousness, in order that all these things —the blessings and rewards of the Kingdom of God(including answers to prayers) can be added to you.

nlMediator:
■ You're so correct about deliverance coming through knowledge. God uses different methods to set and make people free, including knowledge, prophets and prayers. People can be healed or delivered without even praying at all! In some cases, all they need is acquire the relevant knowledge of God for their situation. Jesus was obviously right when He said in John 8:32 that knowledge of the truth makes one free. I've had personal experiences where I was freed of something as soon as knowledge came - before I could even pray or think of it.

WOW... So, you were set free even in your unrighteousness, against that which Jesus Christ said in the context of John 8 vs 31 - 44.

You see, Scripture states that God does not answer the prayers of the unrighteous; the pleas and requests and every petition, praise, offering, work, plea, sacrifice, etc., of the unrighteous are tainted by their sins(disobedience/unholiness) and are hence an abomination to God. So, what is definite is that even your many pleas for the forgiveness of sins are not answered by God given that God made no special exemptions for that kind of plea. No amount of praying can cause God to change His mind regarding that which concerns the unrighteous by the way. So if you are thinking of prescribing more prayers that only means you really don't understand or know God at all.

God, however, openly bragged about how He only answers the prayers of the righteous; He delights in granting them the desires of their heart meaning that they are those who he loves. For this very reason, Jesus Christ urged His followers to seek first the Kingdom of God and God's Righteousness in order that all things— the blessings and rewards of the Kingdom of God(holiness), answers to prayers included—shall be added on to them. And as Jesus Christ explained in His Gospel, the only way to become Holy, and then also Righteous, is by way of continuous submission and obedience to the teachings and commandments of Jesus Christ, god's Truth and Law in the Kingdom of god - John 8 vs 31 - 36 & John 14 vs 15 - 23. Jesus Christ is the only way. Obedience to the Truth of God is the one and only path to righteousness. No amount of praying and other religious rituals can accomplish that.

God deals indirectly with the unrighteous, the same way He deals with the unbelievers including the wicked and the ungrateful and that is by pouring out His mercy and kindness on them daily. So every time as an unrighteous you feel that God has answered your prayer know that at that same moment, or moments before that, God also provided the same mercy or similar to someone else across the world — or maybe just across from you— who does not even believe in God, nor asked God for anything. So, if answers from God are what you seek, then do what Jesus Christ said you should, which is to seek first the Kingdom of God(holiness), and then God's righteousness, in order that all these things —the blessings and rewards of the Kingdom of God(including answers to prayers) can be added to you.

efficiencie:
■ The arguments that ensue out of issues such as the aformentioned are usually great and that's because this issue is an everyday one, with death and disaster everywhere. While i'd love to posit my position,I would not claim to provide a immutable answer to Joyce's question.

My answer is summed in three verses of scripture.

The Holy Ghost states in:
Job 34:12 Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.

This was young Elihu's response to Job, who lamented as Joyce did and asked as Joyce did, 'why did I suffer all these and God sat up there and never came to my aid even when i'm such a righteous man'. Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar all gave wisdom but couldn't provide an answer to Job. Elihu however though young spoke by God's inspiration and made us understand that God can never do wrong, he won't break his rules, he won't be unjust and won't be evil. His thoughts towards us are of peace and not evil to give us an expected end.

Elihu is the holy ghost?

mbaemeka:
■ Which brings us back to the issue of Hezekiah. If Hezekiah had just accepted God's will for his life and died when God asked him to some of you would have had a case to refer to. But no, he refused to die and God let him have it his way (even though the extra years he spent on earth were miserable).
■ Gombs and Nlmediator are correct. When it comes to God's kids (like the Heroes in the bible) they all had their say. Several times Paul was destined to be killed but he resisted it all the time. When the end of his course had come, like his master Jesus he declared that it was time and he checked out. It was not a mystery neither was it some random unseen event. They decided it by accepting it. Take a cursory look at Stephen and advise yourself.

But here is the problem with that. Hezekiah was a righteous man and king hence the reason why he had God's audience. He was also of God's Old Law which God Himself sealed over 1900 years after when He destroyed the Temple in Jerusalem. So it is moot to attempt to argue Old Law of Moses ideas when they no longer exist to this day.

2. Being in danger of being killed does not mean it is time for one to die. The average individual experiences such at least 2 or 3 times over his or her lifetime. Paul and Stephen lived during a time when God poured out visions, dreams, and prophesy on everyone in the Land - Joel 2 vs 28 - 33 - and this was to inform them all of the impending ends of all to come. God's final judgment is based on His Old Law and the destruction of Jerusalem. Everybody in the land including Stephen and Paul knew of this and was probably ready for the end to happen at any moment.

Kobojunkie:
Elihu is the holy ghost?

“Holy Men of God Spake As They Were Moved by the Holy Ghost” — 2 Peter 1:21

efficiencie:
■ “Holy Men of God Spake As They Were Moved by the Holy Ghost” — 2 Peter 1:21

Elihu wasn't the only one who "prophesied" in job so why single him out for this claim you attempt to make here?