Read this heartbreaking article about individuals who trusted their problems to prayers that went unread, unanswered, totally ignored.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/unanswered_prayers
When you have a problem, should you pray about it? Should you ask others to pray? Or should you use your time productively, planning solutions and seeking input and assistance from others?
Your first response to a difficulty or challenge matters a great deal, as it can mean the difference between resolving a situation immediately or allowing it to fester, destroying your chances to lead a happy, successful life. If your first (or only) response is the inaction of prayer or requesting prayer from others, you may sabotage your opportunity to correct the situation.
Whether you are religious or not, believe in prayer or not, please answer this question in as logical a manner as possible.
2006-11-02 23:30:58 · 11 answers · asked by nora22000 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Prayer is nice and everything, but I think in the end, we all have personal responsibility for what happens in our lives. When something is going wrong, it might make you feel better to say "God, please help me", but there still has to be action on your part to work toward a favorable result. Otherwise...it's like that Carrie Underwood song "Jesus take the wheel"--she throws up her hands as the car is about to crash and asks for God to help her, but she's still going to crash unless she puts her hands back on the wheel and tries to guide herself back onto the road.
2006-11-02 23:34:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Aw, man, i just posted that! *laughs* I guess I should read the board first before posting next time.
I answered that I'd burn the letters to send the prayers to God. In several cultures and religions, burning is a way to send prayers and wishes to heaven. Symbolically, the smoke. I would hope that each person got an answer to their prayer for God doesn't need a letter, He already heard their cries.
2006-11-02 23:59:06 · answer #2 · answered by sister steph 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Prayer is wishful questioning and has shown a nil efficacy in a cutting-edge Harvard be taught. people do it for extremely some motives yet mostly i think of it comes from impotence. it somewhat is, whilst people who can no longer admit that there are no gods are in a venture the place there is merely no longer something to be achieved, they are able to't manage that certainty the two and so have interaction interior the wishful questioning of prayer. and of direction this bleeds into prayer in regularly any venture and if I had to wager i might say it somewhat is using the fact to a huge degree we are creatures of mindless habit. people merely ought to settle for what they are recover from it!
2016-12-28 11:43:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
One man with a shovel can do more than a million people praying.
I noticed in that article that many of the letters had pleas from agonized people who felt guilty about what the church, itself, made them feel guilty about. It's a shame that religion puts people through such stress. It sounds like these people had enough to worry about in their lives without having to also worry about if they pissed of some invisible guy in the sky.
But that's how religion works. It manipulates people by playing on human insecurities. It cares not what strife it causes people as long as they can get those people to come to them for solace.
2006-11-02 23:32:14 · answer #4 · answered by nondescript 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd keep in mind the old adage "God helps those who help themselves". While some of the letters mentioned in that article aren't exactly requests where someone *could* do so, prayer alongside action seems the most logical course to me. Open the doors up to allow God to help you through them.
2006-11-02 23:39:57 · answer #5 · answered by angk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you rely solely on prayer to achieve the things you need in life, yes it will be damaging. One should be trying to do these things themselves instead of relying on their Personal God to take care of it for them. That doesn't sound like much of a "relationship" to me. But I see nothing wrong with praying, so I would have to say that a person could do both. I suspect their prayers would have to change then, instead of "Give me...." it would be "Help me...."
2006-11-03 00:51:53 · answer #6 · answered by riverstorm13 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes you should pray. You can ask others to pray as well. Praying works. trust me! I have been there! It is called Intercession prayer. Go for it. It will take time but I promise you will find good success!
2006-11-02 23:39:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've see lots of people who sit around talking about they trust
God to help them. IT AIN'T HAPPENIN'!
Like the saying goes, God helps those who help themselves.
The 1st Universal Law is the Divine Paradox. That our world is
just an illusion compared to the "spirit" world. But it's still
REAL!
I used to ask our Creator to help me meet some good friends.
And then I stayed in the house all time. We live in a material
world. We have to get out there, and make ourselves
available. Then our Creator can draw us to the people who
can help us.
2006-11-02 23:51:03 · answer #8 · answered by zenbuddhamaster 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no way belive itself is an action and pray is action too,islam as religion ordered muslim to pray and work in same time,you can't be at home lying and money comes to you,no way you must apply your effort and then you ask allah(god) for help and prayer to him .
2006-11-02 23:45:25 · answer #9 · answered by lostship 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Prayer should be the last resort after you have exhaust all other methods to solve it or it would be considered blind faith without wisdom.
2006-11-03 00:35:48 · answer #10 · answered by cybtrker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋