I went to the Stadium yesterday to do some exercise,
While I was at it, A boys phone fell in a sealed gutter.He and his friend struggled to remove the phone with sticks but couldn't, I decided to help out...we tried and tried but couldn't, the Stadium was beginning to get scanty...

The boy gave up and said he would come back later in the day with a Big hammer to break the concrete,all the time we were there I was very optimistic we were going to remove the phone and I was assuring the boy not to worry that he was going to get his phone..

After thinking and trying again and again I almost gave up,but an idea came to my head, "if we can get an iron hanger we can remove the phone" I told the boy,but there was no where we could get a hanger there or any rod that could help...

I got frustrated within me and decided to pray in my mind for God to help us remove the phone. While I was praying in my mind the stick fell inside the gutter, So ran to get another stick...


As I came back with the stick I saw one of the boys trying to put a nylon in the gutter,So I asked what he was trying to do,He then said he got an idea that we should put a nylon in the gutter then push the phone with the stick into the nylon and then pull the nylon out with the stick...Immediately he said that I smiled and called him a genius.

Just close to us was a cloth-like material I rushed to get it and told them this one will be better, In less than 5mins the phone was out...

On my way back home I was thinking of the whole experience, A thought came to my mind " You were busy praying while someone else was busy thinking ...It kept on reoccurring on my mind; I should have been the one to get that idea if I had spent more time thinking than praying ...But when I got home I said to myself God answered my prayers either ways.... But then why wasn't it through me...

Should I have thought more on getting solutions or trust in prayers...

Relate this to life generally, most times we have problems and instead of thinking of how to solve the problem we tend to just be praying without thinking
From this experience I've come to understand that when faced with life challenges we should think consciously on solving the problem without neglecting Prayers...

HAPPY SUNDAY TO YOU ALL.

If I am understanding you right, the young man's idea to use the stick and the plastic bag together could not have been God's Answer to your prayer? If that is what you are saying, why are you saying it? Why is that not a way that God could have answered you?

A food for thought!!!


Wisdom is the principal thing says the bible.

Ihedinobi3:
If I am understanding you right, the young man's idea to use the stick and the plastic bag together could not have been God's Answer to your prayer? If that is what you are saying, why are you saying it? Why is that not a way that God could have answered you?

I was very optimistic(In this context I should say I had FAITH) that I was going to remove the phone while I was trying because I prayed...but I didn't someone else did(Someone that was thinking while I was praying)

Ihedinobi3:
If I am understanding you right, the young man's idea to use the stick and the plastic bag together could not have been God's Answer to your prayer? If that is what you are saying, why are you saying it? Why is that not a way that God could have answered you?

It is because God didn't use him to retrieve the phone but the other guy. The OP wanted to be the hero (the solutionist) but God chose to use the other guy and the op is now reconsidering his stance on prayer.

smat101:

I was very optimistic(In this context I should say I had FAITH) that I was going to remove the phone while I was trying because I prayed...but I didn't someone else did(Someone that was thinking while I was praying)

Was God obliged to answer you exactly according to your expectation?

Thats how one woman almost let her son die because the boy was sick and instead of taking the boy to a hospital or chemist, she kept taking him to the pastors house for prayers.
Each time she went, the pastor would not be at home and she'd just take the child home.
It wasn't until she finally met the pastor's wife who prayed and instructed her to take the child for malaria treatment that she finally got the child medical help and he got well.

Its not lack of money that made her to not take the child for treatment but lack of sense

Ehiscotch:


It is because God didn't use him to retrieve the phone but the other guy. The OP wanted to be the hero (the solutionist) but God chose to use the other guy and the op is now reconsidering his stance on prayer.

Lols...
You're right bro...
I wanted the phone to come out first before being the Hero...
Let's take for instance your wife is very sick in the hospital and needs money for treatment and you dont have at the moment,though you're assuring your wife you were going to bring the money before the week runs out..hoping to make a sale within the week to foot the hospital bill; and you prayed For God to help you...Unfortunately two weeks passed you didn't make the expected sales; Her friend now decided to help with the bill how would you feel, be sincere to yourself...

Ehiscotch:


It is because God didn't use him to retrieve the phone but the other guy. The OP wanted to be the hero (the solutionist) but God chose to use the other guy and the op is now reconsidering his stance on prayer.

I think you could be right.

Ihedinobi3:

Was God obliged to answer you exactly according to your expectation?

Well I hoped He did

smat101:

Well I hoped He did

And, as I asked, why was the idea that the other guy had not considered by you to be His Answer?

I believe that all power, all intuition is from the same source. Your brain (the transmitter) was not tuned to the right frequency so the info sought out a more receptive transmitter -- the other guy's brain.

Wetin I dey talk self?

Faith without work is dead

Mumu

Thank you for sharing OP.
It's worth every read.

Prayer does absolutely nothing!

Failure to think when faced with situations that require logical thinking is part of the reason Africa is where it is today, logical thinkers that can make things happen is what we need, not those that believe superstition can make things happen.

if it could the western world would not be where they are today, its high time people changed their orientation.

Thinkers are leaders

Well, prayer works wonders for me.

When next you praying, pray for insight.

smat101:
I went to the Stadium yesterday to do some exercise,
While I was at it, A boys phone fell in a sealed gutter.He and his friend struggled to remove the phone with sticks but couldn't, I decided to help out...we tried and tried but couldn't, the Stadium was beginning to get scanty...

The boy gave up and said he would come back later in the day with a Big hammer to break the concrete,all the time we were there I was very optimistic we were going to remove the phone and I was assuring the boy not to worry that he was going to get his phone..

After thinking and trying again and again I almost gave up,but an idea came to my head, "if we can get an iron hanger we can remove the phone" I told the boy,but there was no where we could get a hanger there or any rod that could help...

I got frustrated within me and decided to pray in my mind for God to help us remove the phone. While I was praying in my mind the stick fell inside the gutter, So ran to get another stick...


As I came back with the stick I saw one of the boys trying to put a nylon in the gutter,So I asked what he was trying to do,He then said he got an idea that we should put a nylon in the gutter then push the phone with the stick into the nylon and then pull the nylon out with the stick...Immediately he said that I smiled and called him a genius.

Just close to us was a cloth-like material I rushed to get it and told them this one will be better, In less than 5mins the phone was out...

On my way back home I was thinking of the whole experience, A thought came to my mind " You were busy praying while someone else was busy thinking ...It kept on reoccurring on my mind; I should have been the one to get that idea if I had spent more time thinking than praying ...But when I got home I said to myself God answered my prayers either ways.... But then why wasn't it through me...

Should I have thought more on getting solutions or trust in prayers...

Relate this to life generally, most times we have problems and instead of thinking of how to solve the problem we tend to just be praying without thinking
From this experience I've come to understand that when faced with life challenges we should think consciously on solving the problem without neglecting Prayers...

HAPPY SUNDAY TO YOU ALL.

faith without work is useless!

you are busy praying while the others are busy trying to work things out!

praying have different form! don't be like those men working up and down shouting thinking there are praying!

praying is a form of communication! you may be communicating (praying) and also finding a solution.

God's ways are not our ways, your prayer worked but just not the way you expect it to.

Even God said people perish because of lack of wisdom.

You prayed for a solution....

Wisdom is profitable to direct

So you want to stop praying abi? Very well then, good luck to you but I know that there a problems that even the best geniuses can't solve but God can do all things

Deeep!



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This your story reminds me of a story i read online, I can't remember everything but I'll try to explain.

There was a heavy flood and people where evacuated and this man climb to the top of the roof and was praying to God to come and rescue him...

Helicopter came to pick him but he refuse to follow,saying that God will rescue him, a boat came but he refuse, that was how he got drown and died.

God will not come down to help, he will send someone and that person might be you or someone else.
I believe God answered your prayers by through that boy by giving him an idea.

Isoright

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Prayer is a lazy man's opium-- the solace of a man who has no confidence in his abilities. Prayers do not build bridges, road, iPhone, TV and other mundane materials that pretentious and prayerful Nigerians chase on a daily basis.

No country has ever prayed her way to greatness. They innovate. If action is needed in that process, no holds barred not excluding war.

If prayer is the key, Nigeria would be el Dorado. Don't forget that in Nigeria, God is only a means to an end. The true god that Nigerians (including the inglorious clergymen and women) worship is MONEY.

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God answered your prayer....Go and beg for forgiveness

God's way is not your way my brother...