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All these prayers are very religious prayers that expresses sublime doubt. You are asking for God to give you these things when you should believe that He has already given them to you.

He says His Grace is sufficient for you. So pray by acknowledging these things backed up with His words and with receptive hands while you thank Him for what you believe He has already given to you.

Sveen:
There are different forms of Christian prayer,
but whether you have a set prayer time or seek
to communicate with God throughout the day
(or some combination of both), here are 10
Christian prayers that are extremely dangerous
to pray. This doesn’t mean we shouldn’t pray
them … we should! It just means that when we
pray them, we should watch out!

1. Teach me humility.

After you pray this Christian prayer for
humility, be ready for people to badmouth you,
slander you, and drag your name through the
mud. If you pray for humility, be ready for false
accusations, for that “skeleton in the closet” to
be revealed, or for people to belittle you and
talk down to you as if you were inferior.
The only way to learn humility is to be placed
in humbling situations, so if you pray for
humility, be ready!

2. Teach me patience.

If you pray for patience, get ready to be
surrounded by the most annoying people you
have ever met. Get ready for your car to break
down when you are late for an appointment.
Get ready for your children to go bonkers. Get
ready for prayers to not get answered. Get
ready for setbacks, roadblocks, and pitfalls.
Just like with all the other Christian prayers on
this list, God teaches us patience by taking us
through trying times.

3. Lead me wherever you want me to go.

One way this Christian prayer is often prayed
is with the words, “Here I am, Lord, send me.”
Usually when we pray this Christian prayer, we
think that God is going to send us into high
profile ministry positions, places of honor and
glory, and opportunities to be heard. This is
why ministry leaders almost never “feel the
leading of God” to go to smaller ministries and
places of lesser significance. God always
seems to “call” pastors and ministry
professionals to bigger churches, richer
ministries, and positions with greater power.

While I do not deny that God sometimes leads
people in these directions, I think that more
often than not, God wants to lead us
downward, but we refuse to go. Of course, this
does not mean that we will stay in the gutter if
God leads us there. God may very well lift us
up out of the gutter to a place of prominence,
but when He does so, He gets the glory
instead of us.

That’s why this is such a dangerous Christian
prayer. We want to be used by God for great
things in His kingdom, but God’s path to
greatness usually does not mirror what we had
in mind. God’s path to greatness usually leads
to prison, death, and the gates of hell.
Also (and this fits with #1 above), when we
pray this prayer, we will often be faced with a
choice between two ministry positions, one
that leads to honor, glory, and fame, and one
that leads to obscurity and insignificance.
Though the temptation is to choose glory and
honor, such decisions may actually be a choice
to follow Jesus downward into humility.

I once heard Francis Schaeffer say in an
interview that if given the choice between two
ministry positions, we should choose the one
with less fame and glory.

4. Help me understand the
plight of the poor.

This Christian prayer is like asking God to make
you poor. Yikes! How can you understand the
plight of the poor unless you become poor
yourself?!
So do you like your nice house, your two cars,
your steak dinners, and your Caribbean
vacations? Don’t ask God to help you
understand the plight of the poor.

5. Make me more like
Jesus.

In one way or another, this has been a constant
life prayer of mine. A couple years back, I
realized that this prayer ruined my life.
I had my life all figure out, and it was all going
according to my perfect plan. Then I started
praying this prayer. Before long, all my hopes
and dreams lay shattered around my feet. I often
tried to pick up the pieces and glue everything
back together, but God would come through with
His baseball bat and smash it all to hell (almost
literally… all of my plans and dreams deserved
nothing more).
When you pray to be like Jesus, God will begin to
break down, burn away, and slough off anything
and everything in your life that does not look like
Jesus. This sounds nice until you begin to
experience it. The purification of our life may be
with God’s refining fire, but it sill burns!.

6. Give me more faith.

Christians like our beliefs in nice, neat packages.
But life is not like that, and neither is life with
God.
When Christians pray for God to give us more
faith, we are likely to enter into some of the
difficult and doubt-filled times of our lives. You
will begin to question everything you have never
known and everything you have ever believed.
You may even begin to doubt God’s goodness
and maybe even His existence.
This is not bad. Embrace the doubts. Understand
that if what you believe it true, it can stand up
against all questions. Truth does not fear a
challenge. There is no other way for your faith to
grow than for your faith to be tested.

7. Give me victory over sin
and temptation.

How do you think victory comes, except through
ever-increasing cycles of temptation? Sure, God
does not send the temptations, and He never
allows us to be tempted with more than we can
bear, but if we pray for God to give us victory
over sin and temptation, this is the same thing
as asking God to strengthen us so that we can
stand up under greater and greater temptations!
So if you pray this Christian prayer, be ready for
an onslaught of all the wiles of the devil.

8. Please help my
annoying neighbor/
coworker come to Christ.

This is a great Christian prayer. Except guess
how God is going to help your annoying neighbor
or coworker come to Christ? That’s right. He’s
going to use you.
I once heard a story of a Bible study group who
decided to make a prayer list of all the people
they “disliked” the most, and then pray for these
people every week as part of the Bible study.
Over the course of the next ten years, all but one
of the people on that list became believers, and
almost all of them became Christians because
the members of that Bible study showed grace,
love, mercy, and forgiveness to these “annoying”
people.

If you are going to pray for someone, be
prepared to answer your own prayers.

http://www.gltrends.com/8-dangerous-christian-prayers-no-7-not-easy/

talk2chixy:
All these prayers are very religious prayers that expresses sublime doubt. You are asking for God to give you these things when you should believe that He has already given them to you.

He says His Grace is sufficient for you. So pray by acknowledging these things backed up with His words and with receptive hands while you thank Him for what you believe He has already given to you.

In that case you should never pray na

SuperSuave:
this topic needs frontpage for serious debate. most of the points are very correct to a man not in spirit. GOD HELP US.

I like this yur response...to the common man they r correct bt to him filled wit the HOLY SPIRIT these points are far frm true........

There are over 3000 religions on earth and the most popular religion ( Christianity ) has roughly 41,000 different sects. This is not the result of an all-knowing, all-loving, and all-powerful deity, it is the result of human ignorance and making up answers to satisfy curiosity-then using it to control others by telling people they are bad or that something horrible will happen to them after they die if they don't believe it. It doesn't take a god to create a religion, it just takes human ignorance and fear.

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Why not? Your prayers are majorly acknowledging His works and thanking Him with praise and worship.

All you seek and ask for has already been taken care of more than 2,000 yrs ago. So express faith by believing and thanking Him

Kingbilo:
In that case you should never pray na

colossus2:
Wetin you dey talk

Lol sorry.. Me sef confuse

Your number 5 (make me more like jesus) simply is the best prayer a christian can pray

Sveen nice wrt up....I understand w@ u r trying to say bt in my own POV.....u r wrng sir becuz wit understanding all those prayer points are powerful prayer points....

God says...ask and it shall be given unto you,,,,,......Lemme use the third law of motion to explain my point........''To every action,there is an opposite or equal reaction''......







Oda than that,,,, if you pray faithlessly..expect all these stuffs....... While prayn invite the holyspirit and see......

Lol I have heard that too but I think the context is that he will surely succeed, therefore AS I SUCCED, YOU WILL ALSO SUCCEED

Lero15:
Hmmm

Heard a prayer ring tone of a top pastor.. Goes thus:

"As I succeed, you will succeed "
Then I heard " amen! "

What?!

What if at some point, God decided to tarry for a while before He answers the pastor, na so me sef go dey Or if the pastor goes astray and God is angry with him. Na so my prayer sef go hang

Shey prayer niyen?

DIE BY FIRE!!!

Are u sayin Mattew 7:7 for example is void?

talk2chixy:
All these prayers are very religious prayers that expresses sublime doubt. You are asking for God to give you these things when you should believe that He has already given them to you.

He says His Grace is sufficient for you. So pray by acknowledging these things backed up with His words and with receptive hands while you thank Him for what you believe He has already given to you.

Nigerians dont pray these prayers abeg LWKMD

If you had said, Lord give me unimaginable wealth and prosperity, eh heh

@OP every point you have made is very true. The christian walk with God is as enjoyable as it can be tasking.
God help us.

Prayer points for the broken...for that person that has conquered self...so help me GOD

Toonice:
What behavior did want God to take away from your life? Nobody is perfect that i know,
As 4 me i want God to take away the habit of drinking beer away frm my life. Amen. What is your own weakness that u want God to perfect 4 u.

Are you still drinking beer or God don free you from it?

You should not in a bid 2 mk frontpage post nonesense dt wil mislead d spiritaul babies. Be mindful of wt u post cos it has d tendency of misleadin many n God wl nt b hapi with u

Op we are mere human,you're right because all you said is what u believe in...buh I bet you God doesn't judge that way...

Op..I beg to disagree!!!!
It depends on the intent nd not necessarily the words...
U made meanings of this prayers in Your own context....everybody has his/her own context when praying.....
We pray in line as the spirit leads nd our hope is built on Jesus christ love nd righteousness....
I totally Disagree with all ur points.....the are invalid!!!!
Remain blessed!!!

Abeg d only prayer on my mind is **lord gee me my own oshiomole and remember me like the emir of daura's new wife ** amen

Prayer is not done by talking. It's there in the scriptures. That's why most prayers don't get answered because they kneel down and start talking and praying to some God somewhere in space. ( be still and know )

Christianity has always been about teaching people the act of feeling useless and worthless. You need to feel low to see the need to pray to something you don't know.

....May God direct Us... So many prayer points these days and people rarely research and examine them b4 praying. It is well IJN(Amen)

Thanks Sveen.Your post about "5 dangerous christian prayers" taught me a lot i never imagined.
This is the kind of tread worth following on NL.
Remain blessed.

Why are they dangerous?this is the basis of Christianity otherwise no results. Love the Lord ,your GOD with all your hearts and your NEIGHBOR as yourself. On prosperity and provisions,he said SEEK FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND IT RIGHTEOUSNESS, all this things will be added to you.

I came to this section to read topics and comments and remain silent but ur write up won't allow me to do so. I really appreciate ur post and looking forward to someday when i be will praying on all the eight prayer points. Pastor Adeboye said when he came to UI this year and i quote "anything worth doing, is worth doing". I pray for forgiveness and the grace to stand firm while my spirit, soul, and body is purify. Praise the lord!


Mind you, they are not dangerous. I suggest you change the topic. I learnt much from it.

Sveen:
There are different forms of Christian prayer,
but whether you have a set prayer time or seek
to communicate with God throughout the day
(or some combination of both), here are 10
Christian prayers that are extremely dangerous
to pray. This doesn’t mean we shouldn’t pray
them … we should! It just means that when we
pray them, we should watch out!

1. Teach me humility.

After you pray this Christian prayer for
humility, be ready for people to badmouth you,
slander you, and drag your name through the
mud. If you pray for humility, be ready for false
accusations, for that “skeleton in the closet” to
be revealed, or for people to belittle you and
talk down to you as if you were inferior.
The only way to learn humility is to be placed
in humbling situations, so if you pray for
humility, be ready!

2. Teach me patience.

If you pray for patience, get ready to be
surrounded by the most annoying people you
have ever met. Get ready for your car to break
down when you are late for an appointment.
Get ready for your children to go bonkers. Get
ready for prayers to not get answered. Get
ready for setbacks, roadblocks, and pitfalls.
Just like with all the other Christian prayers on
this list, God teaches us patience by taking us
through trying times.

3. Lead me wherever you want me to go.

One way this Christian prayer is often prayed
is with the words, “Here I am, Lord, send me.”
Usually when we pray this Christian prayer, we
think that God is going to send us into high
profile ministry positions, places of honor and
glory, and opportunities to be heard. This is
why ministry leaders almost never “feel the
leading of God” to go to smaller ministries and
places of lesser significance. God always
seems to “call” pastors and ministry
professionals to bigger churches, richer
ministries, and positions with greater power.

While I do not deny that God sometimes leads
people in these directions, I think that more
often than not, God wants to lead us
downward, but we refuse to go. Of course, this
does not mean that we will stay in the gutter if
God leads us there. God may very well lift us
up out of the gutter to a place of prominence,
but when He does so, He gets the glory
instead of us.

That’s why this is such a dangerous Christian
prayer. We want to be used by God for great
things in His kingdom, but God’s path to
greatness usually does not mirror what we had
in mind. God’s path to greatness usually leads
to prison, death, and the gates of hell.
Also (and this fits with #1 above), when we
pray this prayer, we will often be faced with a
choice between two ministry positions, one
that leads to honor, glory, and fame, and one
that leads to obscurity and insignificance.
Though the temptation is to choose glory and
honor, such decisions may actually be a choice
to follow Jesus downward into humility.

I once heard Francis Schaeffer say in an
interview that if given the choice between two
ministry positions, we should choose the one
with less fame and glory.

4. Help me understand the
plight of the poor.

This Christian prayer is like asking God to make
you poor. Yikes! How can you understand the
plight of the poor unless you become poor
yourself?!
So do you like your nice house, your two cars,
your steak dinners, and your Caribbean
vacations? Don’t ask God to help you
understand the plight of the poor.

5. Make me more like
Jesus.

In one way or another, this has been a constant
life prayer of mine. A couple years back, I
realized that this prayer ruined my life.
I had my life all figure out, and it was all going
according to my perfect plan. Then I started
praying this prayer. Before long, all my hopes
and dreams lay shattered around my feet. I often
tried to pick up the pieces and glue everything
back together, but God would come through with
His baseball bat and smash it all to hell (almost
literally… all of my plans and dreams deserved
nothing more).
When you pray to be like Jesus, God will begin to
break down, burn away, and slough off anything
and everything in your life that does not look like
Jesus. This sounds nice until you begin to
experience it. The purification of our life may be
with God’s refining fire, but it sill burns!.

6. Give me more faith.

Christians like our beliefs in nice, neat packages.
But life is not like that, and neither is life with
God.
When Christians pray for God to give us more
faith, we are likely to enter into some of the
difficult and doubt-filled times of our lives. You
will begin to question everything you have never
known and everything you have ever believed.
You may even begin to doubt God’s goodness
and maybe even His existence.
This is not bad. Embrace the doubts. Understand
that if what you believe it true, it can stand up
against all questions. Truth does not fear a
challenge. There is no other way for your faith to
grow than for your faith to be tested.

7. Give me victory over sin
and temptation.

How do you think victory comes, except through
ever-increasing cycles of temptation? Sure, God
does not send the temptations, and He never
allows us to be tempted with more than we can
bear, but if we pray for God to give us victory
over sin and temptation, this is the same thing
as asking God to strengthen us so that we can
stand up under greater and greater temptations!
So if you pray this Christian prayer, be ready for
an onslaught of all the wiles of the devil.

8. Please help my
annoying neighbor/
coworker come to Christ.

This is a great Christian prayer. Except guess
how God is going to help your annoying neighbor
or coworker come to Christ? That’s right. He’s
going to use you.
I once heard a story of a Bible study group who
decided to make a prayer list of all the people
they “disliked” the most, and then pray for these
people every week as part of the Bible study.
Over the course of the next ten years, all but one
of the people on that list became believers, and
almost all of them became Christians because
the members of that Bible study showed grace,
love, mercy, and forgiveness to these “annoying”
people.

If you are going to pray for someone, be
prepared to answer your own prayers.

http://www.gltrends.com/8-dangerous-christian-prayers-no-7-not-easy/

I get it only controversial topics make front page

the view of the op is worldly oriented ,do you think it is the wish of God for his worshipers to be rich. no be jesus give una lords prayer,and moreover no be all prayers God they answer.

Those are quite good prayer lines if you ask me. God knows our heart. we pray he never allow challenges that are beyound our strenghts our way. God help us all.