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Thanks for taking the time to write this out. It offers us a valuable glimpse into the mind of a sincere believer.

Jesuobu:
One of my prayers that God answers was how He healed me of my eye problem

What was the nature of the eye problem? What did you experience that made you feel that there was something wrong with your eye?

Another of my prayer that was answered was really in a dramatic way. I paid a visit to my friend through whom I got my conversion and when I got home, I noticed a sharp pain in one side of my stomach and anytime I tried to speak or eat the pain aggravates and forces me to shut my mouth so that the pain won’t continue.

When you experience such pains, you should go to a good hospital so that they can test you and find out what caused it and how to fix it.

I prayed severally but to no avail and even called my friend who I visited and he prayed over the phone but the pain still remain but surprisingly, when it was time for prayers again in the evening and as I attempted to start praying, the pain came up again

I could barely speak and quietly I said these words “Lord I can’t speak to You because of this pain. Please take it away so that I can speak to You better” and immediately the pain disappeared and I raised my voice and started praying in high frequency. When I finished praying, I took a deep breath and the pain was completely gone and never reoccurred even up to this very moment.

Prayer failed multiple times, but you kept praying until you experienced the inevitable relief, and then you recorded it as a success for prayer. You are like a man who woke up at 12 midnight and commanded the sun to rise. Nothing happened. He prayed at 2am. Nothing happened. He spoke in tongues until 5am, nothing happened. Then at 6am he sang his prayers, and the sun came up in that same hour. What a miracle!

The prayer which God answers through me are the once He instructs me to fix. I don’t pray aimlessly at any random person I see but solely follow the words and instructions of the Holy Spirit.

Can you honestly say that every sick person that God has ever instructed you to pray for got a miraculous healing? Surely God won't direct you to pray for a person knowing that due to your lack of faith or the person's lack of faith, the healing he asked you to pray for won't happen ...

dainformant:
the heart of man is desperately wicked

The mind of man is desperately superstitious and deluded.

Akin1212:
Although you asked the op, but permit me to make a submission. Witches and Wizards do not EXIST. I will not argue, I will only give you reasons.
1. A so called witch or wizard can only attack someone she/he has seen or know, eg a witch in your town cannot harm me because she doesn't know me. But could harm you because she knows you.
2. A witch's charm or witchcraft cannot hurt whoever it is intented for in an instant, it takes a lot of time to suck someone's blood shey? One would ask, with all those powers why wait for days or months to catch me instead of an instant? It's because there's nothing as such
3. Witchcraft and Wizardry are two phenomenon based on hate and envy, you will be surprised how the body(mind) communicates with the universe and tend to affect the other person's convenience or inconvenience. You may not understand this post, please reread if you don't.

To discuss whether witches exist, visit the following thread so this one won't be derailed:
https://www.nairaland.com/3449902/witches-wizards-exist-dont-think

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@ackcity: Should a man disrespect his wife? If your answer is "no", why is this thread not titled "Why You Should Not Disrespect Your Spouse?"

4thsense:
My wife had died at about mid-night after three years of marriage and I was crying for a while, calling all numbers I had. The medical doctors and pastors I knew were all fast asleep, until I remembers that I WAS A CHILD OF GOD. That was all that made the difference for I called back my wife to life and and snatched her from the jaws of satan the loser, who was defeated, disarmed, deceived and destroyed forever by the power of the cross.

How did you know that your wife was dead? Did you check her pulse and heartbeat? (yes/no). Did you check her breathing? (yes/no).

Setaje:
OK I get now. But what do u think they should say. That it just so happens that the cough left.

"My cough has left. I don't know why it left, but I am just so happy to be free. Drinks for everyone!"

peacesamuel94:
According to the Bible, Faith is not just a requirement, it is also in levels, it is possible, someone that has faith have prayed for the Annihilation of ISIS, but it is unlikely for Him/her to possess the degree of faith to make it come to pass.

So there is no single Christian on earth who truly believes that God can destroy ISIS in a blink of an eye or at least within a few days? Come on!

However there are things that must happen as confirmation that the world is near its end. Maybe ISIS Is just one of them, and if it is, no amount of prayer can change it.

If an almighty God existed, and he wanted to end the world, he would just say to the world, "end!" He wouldn't need ISIS to help him with that.

I fear that we're going off topic. It's not clear that faith has anything to do with healing. You can be healed without faith, or die with faith.

Marxxx:
See a God that can exist in three forms...like water changing to solid and vapour.

If your interpretation of the trinity is correct, why is God limited to 3 forms? An omnipotent God should be able to exist in an unlimited number of forms. It seems random that he'd limit himself to 3. In my view, the trinity is just a convenient doctrine made up to justify worshipping Jesus. If early Christians said Jesus was not God, worshipping him would contradict the Jewish scriptures. But if they said Jesus was God, it would be difficult to explain why Jesus kept referring to himself as "the Father" and praying to himself. The "mystery" of the trinity was the only way out.

peacesamuel94:
what I meant was that according to the bible, the requirement prayer needs to guarantee answers is Faith. So Prayer doesn't get answered in every case, because not everyone who "appears" to have faith really does.

Consider the millions of people all over the world who have prayed for ISIS to be wiped out. Is it really possible that not one of them has faith?

yemimajid:
The christian book is in English, so it is easier to understand it's ridiculousness than that of it's counterpart...

Check out www.clearquran.com and be sure to take some hot coffee before you start reading it.

donefezy:
Yeah, i think the op is right...For the past few weeks, I keep login in over and over again.

what's your network, device and browser?

engineerboat:
This happen mostly on google chrome asking for refresh every click

It should only ask for refresh when you are logging in. Send me a screenshot next time it happens. Does it give an error message?

You should not be getting logged out every day. Is there a particular page which logs you out when you visit it? Which browser does this?

femzysticks:

some of their doctrines are contradictory and they claim its from the same source

Yeah. Muslims claim that the Jews and Christians have corrupted their scriptures, so God sent the Prophet to deliver the uncorrupted word of God to the Arabs. Christians claim that Jews don't embrace Jesus because they don't understand the messiahnic prophecies in their own scriptures, but the truth is that every OT verse used in the new testament to support the messiahship of Jesus was quoted out of context. The idea that God has always been a Trinity but never mentioned it to any of the prophets of his chosen people, ever, is just ridiculous. Ezekiel had a vision of God's throne room and Jesus wasn't there, if I remember it correctly. Where was God's eternal, co-equal son hiding at the time??

lepasharon:
who wrote ecclesiasties?

King Solomon, presumably. Jews don't believe that people go to heaven or hell when they die. It's a Christian concept, like God having a son.

@favoredguy: the author of Ecclesiastes didn't believe in the afterlife. Dan Barker, a popular atheist, says that it's his favorite Biblical book.

Lennycool:
You're lucky she doesn't know that you don't even believe in God

She doesn't? I assumed the opposite.

mrmrmister:
Bro, how can I change my password?

I told someone thinking I'd change it later.

Sign out and go through password recovery.

It's not clear from the quoted text that God promised the safe return of muslims from hajj. There are real issues, but this isn't one of them.

Muslim and Christians both claim to worship the God of the Jews, but they have different ideas about how that God wants to be worshipped.

onila:


my nairaland family

chei, after all my hardwork, all l get is stupid

Sorry. Keep working hard. Don't rely on any particular person for approval. Cheers.

GreenPlumes:
The wife didn't do anything. He just felt the woman no longer pretty. He did not even give her divorce cert. and man said he no dey do again. U wan put woman for bondage?

Her husband has probably been unfaithful to her since he left her, and that is accepted by Jesus as a justification for divorce.

Maximus85:
But sincerely.... Did Toyin actually dated this scumbag?

He is a tall guy. I recently learnt that women love height the way men love boobs. Proof: Serena Williams' white, geeky, but tall fiancé.

Following. Very informative.

Ranchhoddas:
I have been on this section for a while. No explanation would suffice for one who is willfully closed-minded.

The OP specifically asked us to provide a naturalistic explanation of his story and that is precisely what we are doing.

The already ridiculous attempt at explanation that 'the man might have filled his mouth with the pins'

Is it really less ridiculous to assert that the graphite pins were sucked out of his body into the man's mouth but somehow he experienced no pain and didn't feel the pins leaving his body and there were no holes where they were sucked out from, and no blood on the pins?

Imagine what it would be like if all of your children gathered around you to ask for the same thing, talking at the same time? What's the point of that? It would be better for them to pick one person to make the request on their behalf and then shut up and let you respond to them.

rawgurl:
U know, i was asking the question because my mother-in-law is complaining bitterly that me and my hubby are leading the kids astray, that we don't go to church so on and forth,

Alas, that is to be expected. She was hoping to make up for her failure to indoctrinate your husband by indoctrinating her grandkids. You can allay her fears of the kids growing up without morals due to the lack of religion by explaining how you teach them to be good without God.

winetapper:
so you are telling me, he will hide leads in his mouth for about more 50+ patients waiting in line too.

Between patients he could load a new batch of graphite (pencil lead) into his mouth. It's extremely cheap, isn't it? How much did you pay him?

Listen, I don't know him and he doesn't know I was coming. He just felt my body and sucked it out

From your description, most of the people coming to him were coming for the same problem, so of course he was prepared.

Like I said earlier other specialist has his own method of removal. Some hit it off your body and you will see it fall on the floor.

That one is also easy to explain. They hold it in the hand and throw it down as they hit your body. With practice, they can fool most people.

if its a magic trick everyone would have known the secrets around it.

No. Fraudsters only reveal their secrets to their accomplices. The rest of us can only figure it out by thinking critically, which few people do.

bennyann:
Seun hasn't graduated from mocking God yet. The day God will mock him...

We all experience misfortunes from time to time. It has little to do with God. My life today is challenging, but I'm luckier than many Christians.

Mbkite:
seun will later in life become a preacher of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

bennyann:
And do you know you saying and confirming it, helps it comes to reality faster...

If you really believe that declaring that something will happen makes it happen, you should declare something more important e.g the discovery of a drug that can cure every form of cancer in 2017, the eradication of malaria in 2017, or that Economists will take over the CBN in 2017.