₦airaland Forum

drlateef:
Are you saying there is correlation between poverty snd prayers?

Yup

ufotunang:
The Bible say faith, prayers without work is dead prayer alone cannot develop a country and make the economy of this country good...it's the work...it's good goverance that develop a country and the economy

Yes prayer alone can do that.
Remember your bible said the heart of the king is in god's hands. So its your prayer that is supposed to make Yahweh change those leaders heart. Guess what? Yahweh has ignored you folks. He hates third world countries and loves to answer first world countries prayers

DeAnonymousGuy:
Just because it can't change things externally doesn't mean it's useless. Prayer can be useful for the person praying. It can help people change outlooks, and make changes in their lives as well just like meditation does.

How does it change lives?

Acidosis:
Prayer is not a cure for underdevelopment. Read your Bible.

This one dey yarn dust.
If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land” (2 Chronicles 7:14)

Acidosis:
And who says the purpose of prayer is to make you or your nation rich??

This is obviously one of the many deceits of the devil: to make you believe that God and His kingdom is about earthly/worldly inheritance. Satan rules and controls the earth. So if earthly treasures are your metrics for measuring God's faithfulness, then you are the most delud..ed person ever liveth.

If your purpose in life and afterlife is to have money, please draw closer to Satan. Your chances are higher with him. It only takes invading a few countries, enslaving the people, and stealing their gold and other resources.

So how does Yahweh bless people?

waice6571:
It will be good if you can speak for yourself alone on this matter.

If not for prayer and hope through faith that all will be well one day. Do you know how many people will dying of suicide every day?
Our government is committing sin against humanity on daily basis.... Every one depends on God and waiting to have a means of running away from this country or get a job that may help him and his family......

Its the hope that kills…
What has hope done for you?

bonnyhope:
God has given everyone brain, it is left for you on how you make use of it.

Prayer is more of spiritual

What is this one saying?
Lemme repeat the question.
Lots of countries lower in the prayer pecking order are excelling. Some without even praying. Some even prayed to the wrong gods(according to your perspective). Yet they perform better than countries that pray to Yahweh. How do you defend that?

BigDawsNet:
No 1, We serve a living "God" not god.

No 2, don't make mistake those western countries also pray, and they belive in God... just that they don't really have time to attend church..

No 3, Praying for Nigeria in my own view is a waste of time.. the prayer may not really work..
because we hav lots of bad leaders... in America, dey will say "God bless America" and God will surely do because dia leaders hav human feeling and they are not greedy..

No 4, Individual prayer is the best.. and many are celebrating dia testimonies daily...

1. Obviously that particular god is dead. If he can't answer any prayers or even say hi, then that mothafucker is stone dead.
2. Do you know the source of this statistics? It came from Pew Research, a religious study organization. They used data drom questionnaires they issued people. Their questions simply asked whether the individual prays or not. Location of prayer is irrelevant. Besides a good percentage of those countries I named are atheists and some non-practicing christians.
3. Your bible clearly says the heart of the king is in yahweh's hands. So Yahweh can obviously manipulate their hearts like he toyed with Pharaoh's. So that one no be excuse
4. Individual prayer works? Lets do an experiment. Pray to your phone for your needs for 1 month. Then pray to Yahweh for 1 month. See if there's any difference in answered prayers. lol 😆

DAramis:
The common denominator among all the top ten countries is that there are majority of Muslims living there.

Remove Islam, and the list will become top 10 least prayerful country in Africa.

Are you aware Nigeria has almost 50% christians and thus about half of those prayers in Nigeria end up in Yahweh's inbox?

BigDawsNet:
The non praying countries are also praying... they don't just go to church more than Nigerian citizens..

Huh? What is this one saying?
Do you know the source of this statistics? It came from Pew Research, a religious study organization. They used data drom questionnaires they issued people. Their questions simply asked whether the individual prays or not. Location of prayer is irrelevant. Besides a good percentage of those countries I named are atheists and some non-practicing christians.
Give another excuse.

treatise:
If that's true it means the more prayerful a country is the more backward it becomes.

Bullseye!

CodeTemplar:
a lot.

Example

spencekat:
No.Our leaders are our problem.

Isnt the heart of the king in god's hands again?

victorazyvictor:
Keep deceiving ya sef.

Those countries you mentioned are more religious than u think. Go check Chinese monks.

They practice Buddhism which is non theist. They don't believe in any god

ayokashry1:
The things which are seen are temporal but that which is not seen is eternal. Real men of wisdom don't make judgement relying only on the physical senses(judge by sight)...

Youre wise yet this is all you come up with. Since its only you that can see the eternal bullshit, keep it to yourself

Angelfrost:
Good question...!

Let me answer you with the following quote from the Good Book itself:

"That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust." (Matt. 5:45)

God has already blessed every nation with resources and brains... So, in essence, He has answered the prayers religious people already prayed from the beginning of creation.

Failing to apply common sense and human intelligence will never be corrected by praying even for extreme lengths of time.

I knew you would say this. And I was waiting for you.
So the next question. If yahweh has answered everyone's prayers THEN WHY DO WE STILL PRAY? Why do they harass us to pray without ceasing in the bible? 😆

mygee2:
Ask yourself if not for prayer With all the bad leadership looting Who is watching over us if not the Almighty

So who's watching over Norway, UK etc which are least prayerful, don't give a fvck about Yahweh but more stable and economical stronger countries?
Logical reasoning is a problem here

ovieigho:
Shows you don’t comprehend my write up

The stats was put up here by someone
How is Niger or Afghanistan praying countries ?

They picked poor and crisis countries and said they are the praying countries just to rubbish prayers

They are praying countries, whether yahweh, or Allah

dominique:
How will such prayers work when a huge percentage of the prayerful religious people are hypocrites with filthy mindsets? The same sets of people that won't hesitate to cheat, backstab, back bite or pull down his/her fellow humans yet they keep bragging about how prayerful from morning till night. Let's not talk about people commiting all sorts of fornication and adultery yet pride themselves as prayer warriors. Honestly looking at the way majority of Nigerians behave, I think we truly deserve the predicament we found ourselves today. The worst type of prayer is that from the mouth of an hypocrite. You're mocking God and you will continue to incur his wrath!

Yet countries that don't give a fvck your god are far better. What can you say about it?

minasu190:
That is why we are blessed with numerous natural resources, sadly, we are not blessed with good leaders and individual problems as Nigerians, we pray against our enemies, forgetting that we are also the enemy of my brothers.
Religious bigotry and ethnicity have weakened the strength of our dear country, we are the most prayerful country but what has changed so far? Not that God is not with us , but we are against ourselves..we need LOVE, regardless of the religions or tribes.

Excuse me, what do you see in Nigeria that suggests god is with us?
By the way, looking at your statement that means If God is for us, who can be against us?” (Romans 8:31) is a lie then?

donbenie:
And what is your almighty god waiting for to heal your sh1thole of a country?
Until everyone is dead from disease, poverty and insecurity?

Hes not a Christian. Keep him outta your crosshairs

maasoap:
That's a wishful thinking, you know that is not true.

Like most christians, you don't know much. Look at this. Don't run away from reality

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1203455/distribution-of-religions-in-nigeria/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Nigeria
https://www.thearda.com/world-religion/national-profiles?u=166c
These 3 sources put christianity at average of 47.5% or thereabouts

jetwonder:
At the appointed time the saviour comes
Keep the faith!
Keep Praying!!!

Appointed time? Nigga my dad was a prayerful man and died hoping the country would get fixed. And I'm sure both of us would run our race and at the end, this country would be worse off. Wtf is appointed time? A million years? You christians are prime comedians

Rebuke:
God is really with us here bro. Being free from natural disasters alone is enough to know God hears us.

Our only problem is bad leadership and we are the one to fix that.

Yet Scandinavian countries have no natural disasters yet have very low prayer profiles. And whats more, they are much better economically

bonnyhope:
Prayers without work amount to nothing

What happens to people that work without prayers?

spiSeyi:
One thing about the listed countries is that they are less productive even though they have all it takes The more the prayer the less the productivity.
To be more productive in life pray less, do more, and be thankful most times
Ecclesiastes 5:3 admonished us to pray less
Even Jesus mentioned in Luke 11:2-4
Genesis 2:15, Eccl 9:10, Luke 16:10, and 1 Timothy 5: 8 made Christians know that we need to work & pray for what we want but most Christians in Nigeria just want to pray and get what they want like magic . Even the Bible made us know that faith without work is dead. God will add more to what we have as blessings if the only thing we possess is prayers God will add more to our prayers and if we are productive God we add more to our productivity. Stay blessed Shalom!

Same buybull said this
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
16 Rejoice always, 17 pray without ceasing , 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you

Stop tryna twist the buybull

BigDawsNet:
That's wot is keeping this country alive till today...

Praise da Lord

So whats keeping the non praying countries alive?

hopefulLandlord:
There's little to nothing that shows prayers work. Read about the Templeton Foundation study on prayer.

Lol. You saw his post where he said the statistics came from the devil. And you think he'll be impressed by the Templeton Foundation research, or any research for that matter? Lol 😆

DARLINGTON869:
Something is definitely wrong somewhere. 2nd highest praying nation and yet virtually every sector is in a horrible state. UNBELIEVABLE. Of course the problem is not from God. It's from the very people praying and kabashing. When we decide to TRULY repent, work on our filthy and demonic attitudes and seek God with a pure heart and contrition, then God will begin to arise on our behalf. Only in Nigeria will one finish praying on Sunday, and the following day he's already booking room 9 at a hotel for a personal "night vigil" with sister precious. Pastors are constantly being caught pants down with members wives. Looting the order of the day in government. Lying, cheating, debauchery,deceit and malice rules virtually everyone's lives and yet we expect God to listen to us. DEY PLAY OOO. YOU HEAR?? MY FELLOW NIGERNIGERIANS MAKE WE CONTINUE TO DEY PLAYYYYYYY

So why does he answer the prayers of those that don't pray to him and mocking countries like UK, Denmark?

Angelfrost:
Yet, numbers 1 and 2 are havens for terrorists...!

What does that say about religion without true morality and love??! Y'all should go figure.

God cannot be mocked... Pray all you want, you will continue to fall behind nations that have shunned corruption and learned to apply their brains to growing their nations.

So what about the nations that actually mock yahweh like US, UK etc with homosexuality, trans etc. Are you saying yahweh answered their prayers and completely ignored those that at least don't mock him and pray to him?

backbone503:
The difference between Nigeria (and some under developed and developing nations) and the advanced nations is that: while we largely submerge our lives into God, they put God into their lives.

Translation sir

hopefulLandlord:
Why can't they? Didn't you read 2 Chronicles 7:14 that says if you pray God will heal your land?

Most christians don't even read their bibles or they cherrypick