₦airaland Forum

In gathering in churches, they will say things like "let us praise God harder because we are alive and healthy, that patients who are sick in hospitals including those that have died, do not have that privilege to praise God.

And i ask myself, do these people cause the situation they find themselves?
Or is that, they find themselves in such situations because they failed to praise God?

I’ve long decided not to entertain those sentimental prayer points that often lack empathy.

You hear things like, “Thank God you have legs to walk,” “Thank God you have eyes to see,” or “Thank God you are still in the land of the living.” Yet in that same church, there may be someone who is blind, someone living with a disability, or someone who has just lost a loved one. How are they expected to feel hearing such statements?

I believe that when churches raise prayer points, they should do so with greater empathy and sensitivity toward vulnerable people.

paxonel:
In gathering in churches, they will say things like "let us praise God harder because we are alive and healthy, that patients who are sick n hospitals including those that have died, do not have that privilege to praise God.

And i ask myself, do these people cause the situation they find themselves?
Or is that, they find themselves in such situations because they failed to praise God?

Your perception is wrong. They didn't cause the situation but it's to make you realize that that you aren't better than they are but His mercies kept you.

Truvelisback:
Your perception is wrong. They didn't cause the situation but it's to make you realize that that you aren't better than they are but His mercies kept you.

What about people living in technologically advanced countries with good roads,good road usage policies and good health facilities where there are minimal incidence of road accidents and sickness which are the main causes of people visiting hospitals.
Will you say it is the mercy of God that is keeping them or they don't have enough demons that causes sickness and accidents to cast and bind, which Africans usually pray against?

paxonel:
What about people living in technologically advanced countries with good roads,good road usage policies and good health facilities where there are minimal incidence of road accidents and sickness which are the main causes of people visiting hospitals.
Will you say it is the mercy of God that is keeping them or they don't have enough demons that causes sickness and accidents to cast and bind, which Africans usually pray against?

Mention one country that doesn't experience one disaster or the other.

Truvelisback:
Mention one country that doesn't experience one disaster or the other.

If there are more disasters in these countries than what is happening in Nigeria today, many Nigerians will not want to jappa.

Similarly, if Nigerian government fix roads and good public healthcare, accident rates and sickness will be reduced and no church will have any reason to cadjole people to praise God because their case is different sick people in hospitals

paxonel:
If there are more disasters in these countries than what is happening in Nigeria today, many Nigerians will not want to jappa.

Similarly, if Nigerian government fix roads and good public healthcare, accident rates and sickness will be reduced and no church will have any reason to cadjole people to praise God because their case is different sick people in hospitals

Aside the Nigerian crisis, things like these have been foretold in the Bible e.g hardship, hunger, killing etc. Mind you, the foreign countries you are hyping are also experiencing challenges like war, hunger, death, hike in prices etc. Although, I am in anyway supporting this useless government we have now.