Isn't praying for yourself selfish? Isn't selfishness vanity? Isn't vanity a sin? So isn't praying a sin?

Answer 1

BOOYA!! nice comment! Very very true.. What you have said makes 100% sense and the christians are going to have a hard time coming up with an answer lol.. Im sure they will.. But im also sure none of them make sense, as what you have written IS 100% THE TRUTH woohoo!!

Praying to better yourself is most definately a sin..
RELIGION IS FULL OF CONTRADICTIONS!!!!!!

Answer 2

No praying for our selves is not a selfish.But in islamic teaching it is suggested that praying is better and ewill receive a bigger rewards if it is made with others iat home with your family member or the best in a mosque wirh many other people.Vanity is a sin if someone always wanting to be boosted or to be praised .But if the intention could be followed his/her good deeds by others vanity will have a reward.In Islam everything depend on intention.If its intention is bad it will have a sin.Praying with a good intention will have a reward and have no sin.In the opposite if someone has no practice his/her praying obligation on time,he/she will get a sin.

Answer 3

Vanity is not necessarily a sin. Vanity means worthlessness. Or something of no value. And praying for yourself is not selfish. Praying for yourself is about seeking help. And seeking help with your problems and concerns is not selfish.

Answer 4

It depends on what you are praying for. If you are praying for Him to make you smarter or prettier or richer than someone else , that would be considered vanity. However, if you have a real issue that has you confused or lost, then God wants you to bring your cares to HIM. No where in the bible does it say I will only answer a prayer if you ask it for someone else's benefit. You should pray for things like peace and resolution in the middle east, tolerance and purging of racism in the Americas, things like that but you are to cast your cares on the Lord. HE said so himself.

Answer 5

Prayer is showing your dependence upon God. Jesus says that there are prayers that are not answered because people ask amiss. They ask with the wrong motives. So prayers that are for yourself asked with selfish motives- are not answered with a yes by the Lord.

Prayer is where we acknowledge our need for God and His ability to help us. That doesn't sound like a sin...

Selfishness and vanity result in pride where one feels as if there is no need for God that others don't matter.

When Jesus taught his disciples to pray- he taught them not my will but God's will. We can be honest with God about our needs and wants- but ultimately prayer is an act of surrendering to God- that doesn't seem wrong or selfish does it?

Hope that helps,

Nickster

Answer 6

Worship means to consider & declare oneself lowly & helpless before a thing or a person and to consider & declare it/him as the omnipotent, the saviour, and the protector.10

When a person prefers someone else upon the Lord and considers him as the saviour, the omnipotent, the protector, like that of the Lord, then, he virtually adopts the way of Satan, leaving aside the path shown by the Lord, the Holy One. Such a person, practically, seeks help/protection/prosperity from the creature instead of the Creator and thereby stamps himself, by his own hands, as an enemy of the Lord, the Holy One.

To seek help or refuge from a person, other than the Lord, considering him as the Omnipotent-Protector OR to pray or beseech before him, for expulsion of some grief or loss, and extension of some relief or gain___ is all and all___ nothing else but the worship. That is the consolidated verdict of Torah (the Law of Moses), Bhagavad-Gita, the Book of Psalms, the Gospels, the Quran and all the Scriptures. People of all the Scriptures should, therefore, resort to their Scriptures and the Message of Monotheism, contained therein. They must realize, in letter and spirit, that Omnipotent-Protector and the Creator is none, but One, the Holy One, alone. And___ worship is meant for the Creator alone___ not for the creature, the prophets, the gods, the goddesses, the idols or so on.

All-Alone Lord means that there is no God beside the All-Alone Lord. This fundamental lesson has been, altogether, forgotten while everyone knows that none on the earth or in heavens or between the both___ is greater than the Lord, the One God. Instead, every creature is lowly and helpless before the Lord.

Besides that, everyone knows that whatsoever is created___ is created by the Lord, alone. Who is the Omnipotent-Protector. Even then, the masses do not establish the pure and pious worship of the Lord. Nor they act upon the Commandments of the Lord. They do act__ but__ upon their self-assumed, satanic ways. They are the servants of Satan___ not of the Lord.

At present stage of human history, when the continued work of the Godly-guidance stands, already, perfected in terms of the long series of prophets and their Scriptures. And__ the Day of Judgement is also at hand. The masses must review, all and all of that, which is being maintained by them; in the name of faith and belief.

The ignorant must pay heed to the Scriptures and the Message of Monotheism, contained therein. Still there is some time for the Repentive Recourse to reform and recognize the actual purpose of life including the actualisation thereof.

Jesus (PBUH) had given this message in his prayer on the cross (The Psalm 22)

“Praise the Lord, you servants of the Lord
Honour the Lord,
You descendants of Jacob
Worship the Lord, you people of Israel.”
(The Psalm 22:23)

It means that praise is meant for the Lord alone. And___ to honour the Lord means to obey the Lord in terms of the Lord’s Commandments and to worship the Lord means to seek help and refuge from the Lord as the Lord is the Omnipotent-Protector alone. And___ that is the sole purpose of human life.

. Allah says in Quran:-

“O’ mankind, worship your Lord Who has created you and those before you, so that you may ward off (evil). And___ Who has appointed the earth a resting -place for you and the sky a canopy; and Allah causes water to pour down from the sky, producing thereby fruits as food for you. So do not set up rivals unto Allah and you know (that it is a tremendous wrong)”
(Al-Quran 2:21-22)

Jesus said:
“Praise the Lord,
you servants of the Lord
Honour the Lord,
You descendants of Jacob
Worship the Lord
You people of Israel.”
(The Psalm 22:23)
These lines do witness that Jesus was accustomed to praise the Lord__ honour the Lord__ worship the Lord__ the Holy One, alone. So, his followers should also praise__ honour__ and worship the Lord__ the Holy One, alone. They should not praise, honour & worship Jesus, instead of the Lord.

God says:
“I ____ and I Alone___ am God:
No other god is real.
I kill and I give life, I wound and I heal,
And no one can oppose what I do”.
(Duet 32:39)

“Worship no god but Me.
Do not make for yourselves images of
anything in heaven or on earth or in the water
under the earth. Do not bow down to any idol
Or worship it, because I am the Lord your God
and
I tolerate no rivals”.
(Bible, Exodus 20:3, 4, 5)

Krishna Jee said:
Krishna even discouraged his father Nanda Maharaja from worshipping the demigod Indra, because he wanted to establish THE FACT that people need not to worship any demigod. They need only to worship the Supreme Lord, because their ultimate goal is to return to (Real) God’s abode.”
(Bhagavad-Gita, Introduction, Page 20, 21)

Answer 7

Not all prayer is for the person that is praying. I pray to my Gods a lot for others. I do pray for myself sometimes especially since I have been very ill lately and the doctors can't find what is wrong. I pray for my family and my friends and people in my religion and for others that would like me to pray for them. Even Christians sometimes ask if I will pray for them. I am very happy to do so. Just like the Christian God, my Gods love everyone too.

Answer 8

Then dont be selfish and besides praying for yourself, pray for the others such as poor,homeless people, orphans, abused women and underattack innocent people so that it wont be a vanity but a charity;). They will appreciate you, trust me...May God BLESS your heart and soul and show u the light before it gets too late...

Answer 9

This is what God says about praying...

1 Thessalonians 5:17-18 Pray without ceasing.
18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

You do you see where it says concerning you? That means that you can pray for yourself too. It is not vanity. Praying is not a sin.
It is what God wants us to do all the time.

Answer 10

No, The Lords Prayer is an example of how we should pray, and that includes praying for ourselves.

Our Father which art in Heaven
Hallowed by thy name
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven
Give us this day our daily bread
And forgive us our trespasses
As we forgive those who trespess against us
And lead us not into temptation
But deliver us from evil
For thine is the Kingdom
The Power and the Glory
For ever and ever
Amen.