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jayriginal:
■ OP it says in the bible that God knows even before you ask. Why then bother. Again the point was raised about the win win situation. There are a lot of escape outlets for God such as lack of faith, or the prayer not being the will of God. In such a case wont it be better to just let things be according to his will ?
■ When does a prayer expire ? I make this observation. I believe most folks pray at night before they sleep and early the next morning. Now does the prayer cover one from night till morning and also from morning till niight ? I ask because it seems to be a habit of some folks (if they are telling me the truth). Inspite of prayers, some folks still die in their sleep or the next morning sometime after prayer. Does this mean the prayer expired somewhere along the line. A practical person like me would advocate only one prayer to cover a lifetime, afterall as the bible says, he knows s all before we ask it, so why bother, especially when over half the things will clash with his will.

Just some unorganised thoughts.

Orikinla:
■ The prayer of an unrepentant sinner is an abomination to God. God will not answer your prayer if you have an unforgiving spirit of bitterness. God will not answer your prayer if you cheated or stole and did not repent and make restitution to the person you have cheated or stolen from. God will not answer your prayer if you keep on living in denial of the truth and prefer to live in conceit and deceit. ...There are three pillars that uphold a Christian; the pillars are prayer, holiness and the word of God. You cannot be come a heaven-bound Christian if you fail in any of these three pillars. You have to study and meditate upon the word of God daily, live a holy and prayerful life. The modern day man really does not fully understand the awesomeness of the power of prayer. What is prayer? Prayer is the gateway to God’s Presence Prayer is a privilege Prayer is talking With God Prayer is a communication process that allows us to talk to God
Prayer is a love affair with God Prayer is the channel of God’s grace Prayer is talking with Almighty God, while He listens and also talks to you.
The Bible says that the effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. Perhaps you pray fervently, yet your prayers do not avail much. You are puzzled and wonder why you always obtain very little or no results from your prayers.There are ten things that limit the power and effectiveness of prayer[/size]

Southboy:
■ Good morning and happy Sunday to everyone. I woke up this morning to the argument of some of my neighbors about judgement day and it hit me, what's the essence of lining up waiting to be judged by God when he already knows what the answer to the question is? Am only here for the knowledge

africa4ever:
■So Why do we Pray?...In Conclusion God cares for us and that is why we should pray (1 Peter 5:7). God has placed so much interest in us that he wants us to get him involved in our daily activities. Our father is a great listener and he promises to help, protect, preserve and fulfill all his promises over our lives.

peacenow:
■ Sir/Ma, Look at the Lord's Prayer as thought by our Lord Jesus. We need to seperate doctrine from scriptures. Lord Jesus tought us a different way. I am keenly looking forward to your anwer because I used to pray the way you suggested but now I don't because I found another way in the scriptures. Even as I was praying wrongly, He still hears my prayers but I want to continue in the right path Jesus tought us.

JeSoul:
■ Nice topic. As you astutely note, we do not "need" God to tell us what is morally right or wrong, and I believe this is so because we already have a moral compass inherently built in us by which we can use to calibrate our motives and measure the morality of a action - Rom 2: - . . . though sometimes it is not always black and white on what is right or wrong. God's laws are written on our hearts, and the way I see it, it also doesn't hurt to have them also written on paper or should I saw stone.

iliyande:
■ Seems you are craving for my attention for a while now.
Sorry, I don't have much time to engage in meaningless argument. BTW I don't patrol Nairaland platform this days. All I've written up there has biblical backups

Dainy1:
■ My dear, that your own fail, does not mean everybody own no dey work o.
■ I know is hard, but they are still some people you can trust.

dontrulee:
■Failing an exam is not the end of life, I didn't even say that you would fail any exam. What I said is that your lack of understanding simple questions will not make you perform well in an exam. And that's evident from the unrelated answers you're giving to a very simple question. Once again, have you ever sinned ?

lovett007:
■ This is very massive, Jesus everywhere, Jesus Revealed, Jesus Glorified

world123:
■ After reading your message, I realized that I after baptism I never received any fruit or gift of the spirit. So I am working on myself by making positive 10mins declaration upon my life, I had to record it and play it repeatedly to boost my faith. I must say I feel alot of peace within. Secondly, I pray for God's inner peace, I know if I have that peace, then doubt is gone, fear is gone and faith grows. Reduced social media use, reading more Christian books, studying the Bible often, pray more.
■ This has helped to hear from God more. I must say I feel so light and happy at the moment. Thanks for your response once again

elated177:
■ What am I going to do with attention from you, kobojunkie? I mentioned you because I knew exactly what you would say and how you would react about the op and you didn't disappoint.
Who is a righteous person? Is it possible for you to ascertain if a person is righteous without even knowing who he/she is?
■ You even mentioned dream foundation? You referred jezb to a website for dream interpretation or whatever and kicked against my assertion that he should go to his Maker for knowledge. Are you ok, kobojunkie?

dontrulee:
■ That's why people like you no dey perform well for exams. You want to tell you that since the beginning of your existence on planet earth, you've committed a single sin? Dey play.

Ikechukwumdy:
■ There are men even bible recorded as righteous men, so if you are not there yet , keep praying and building yourself in the most holy faith.
■ You need to know what it means to be perfect in God's context and what we define as perfection.

GOSPELTRUTH31:
■ What you are praying for is someone else abundance. What you are praying for is someone else past experience and Encouters I hate it when people hide behind prayer to pray for what unbelievers have, it breaks my heart.
This is the reason why unbelievers don't take Christianity of my time serious. People spend more time praying for Carnal things and tag it Spirituality. Pray for Spiritual things that only Christ can gift you Things like Peace, patience, ability to forgive, ability to let go, ability to have wisdom, ability to Discern , ability to Prophesy, ability to study scriptures and have Revelation, ability to obey the word of God.
This are the kind of things a child of God should pray for. Prayer has been bastardized Prayer that should be a time for intimacy with God has become a time for requesting carnal things , complaining and Gossiping to God instead of a time for appreciation. Nobody will enter the Kingdom of God by how much prayer they prayed But Christ will only reward the works of our Earthly journey with him on obedience to the word of God which is the key to our salvation. Revelation 22:12 And what is the works that Christ will reward?
Mathew 25:33-40 May our Earthly possession be used to express our love for Christ today Like 16:9Goodnews

seyibrown:
@ wiegraf's

Your signature: 'Serious question here creationists, if God made humans from mud then why is mud still here?'

Answer : Mud is still here because he didn't use up ALL the mud in creating Adam

More answers welcome ... and more questions welcome.

Dainy1:
You can trust someone who have proven to be trust worthy

elated177:
Jezb, seek knowledge from your Maker. Do well to ignore what kobojunkie said.

God answers prayers when it's right time. Have patience.

Joagbaje:
■ @poster, Of course God forgives each time a Christian ask for forgiveness. But you can leave beyond the level of falling and confessing. You didn't state if you're born again or not. If you're not born again, you don't have business asking for forgiveness because God will not hear it. Forgiveness is only for a born again person. But if you're born again already and you keep falling into sin. It can only be because you've not allow the word of God to richly dwell in you. You need to grow up spiritually by feeding voraciously on the word.
You need to join a bible teaching church fully. Most churches have a structure by which converts are raised to maturity. But if all these are in place already and you still have challenges in the flesh. Let us know. There is something else to deal with. This goes beyond just confession,God doesn't really want you to keep falling and confessing.

annyplenty:
To lay example for us to come after job that whatever be the tribulation and agony you pass through or you are passing through, you can still hold onto God without denying Him. In actual sense, I think no man can witness the level of job's tribulations again. In other words, whatever you are passing through cannot be as tough and severe as what Job went through.

FreedomfromtheT:
■ As for what it means to be born again, it is not something academic. It is something practical and experiential. I know it because I have experienced it. I don't need anybody to teach me what I have experiential knowledge of. Your elders in your Kingdom Hall do not know it experincially otherwise they would have taught you too and emphasized it to you more than baptism in water or carrying bag from place to place selling literature and teaching false, misleading and damnable doctrines as a way of getting into Paradise. Thank you.

You are wrong. Born again is a one time event. It's a two way event. God give the offer man accepts it. There is nothing on earth God does alone. I repeat Nothing.

SmithRussell:
■ Bros, maybe you don’t know or you want to hide it, either way, let’s not bring this to the thread.

Brother, I like what you wrote here about the extreme importance of forgiving others...because that's a heart issue that blocks God from truly using one to his/her complete fullness.... Un-forgiveness hinders God's complete working in our lives. It also gives one a restlessness....a lack of peace. If we ask God for forgiveness, it would seem rational to extend that same forgiveness to others...however, as human beings, we don't. We must pray for that specific Fruit of the Spirit, cause forgiveness doesn't come naturally....and it's a challenge but can be gained through Christ. However, I think it's important to say that sometimes our prayers aren't answered in the exact way in which we think they should, so we may wrongly assume that God has not answered. But I guess that would apply if one had no known sins in his/her own life that would hinder God from answering. I don't know if you were even trying to go in that direction, but I understand what you are saying though

Ikechukwumdy:
You are very wrong, there are successful business men that are honest in their business, men of integrity.

God pls save us from these damnable heresies . . . where did the above individual get this lie of the devil? Jesus didnt come to "teach us to strive for righteousness" . . . He came that we may have life and have it abundantly.

allaboutobed:
funny as it may seem that is the truth. A part of Isaiah 1:15 says "although u offer many prayers I am not listening". E no listen. E no hear.

herald9:
■ Just hear yourself say this sir... Where is your conscience? You mean you people are play toys to your God? He can fix and dismantle you whenever he wants... If your wife and children died in a plane crash,how will you feel? Will marrying a new wife and making new children clear out the memory of them? NO The pain will still be there....forever! So if you dismiss such a tragic event with a wave of the hand... then you're as heartless as your God. Even as I'm typing this...I feel like bursting into tears...the pain that man Job must have gone through... The sad memory he took back to the grave....Just because the gods wanted to proof a silly point... Mtcheeeeeew! WHERE IS THE FREEWILL HERE?

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.

highyo:
■ seems u still dont understand it. d little one he gave to you, where did he found it?

Godson201333:
■ Yes God answers Prayers ,Im a living soul...If no be for God ...check my moniker !!