Why does God have predestination? And also Why should I pray and/or preach?

Answer 1

I'd recommend you study and read your Bible before you try to pray and preach.

Answer 2

Predestination is highly controversial in that there is no doctrinal proof, only what some christian analysts percieve as predestination. As for the praying /preaching thing, those are 2 different things. You should only preach if you are solid in your faith and feel led by God to tell others about salvation. If you believe in God and want a relationship with him, praying is how we talk to him, some people though talk to him like any other person, like if they're driving, or sometimes in their head, which could be percieved as praying too. Anytime you want/need to talk to God, that's when you pray.

Answer 3

Predestination is the acceptance of the absolute Power of Almighty God to Know all things about everything and to have created All things. You should ask Father God if you should preach and all followers of Jesus should pray about everything. Hope this helps.

Answer 4

You should pray and preach, even though God has predestined all events, because these are the appointed means to accomplishing God's foreordained purposes.

Prayer and preaching are commands of the Lord which are meant to be implicitly obeyed.

Hope this helps!

Answer 5

Short answer:
- Because He must, if we are to be saved.
- Out of joy.

Long answer:
Too many people look at predestination in the wrong way, and it is scriptural. But you have to look at man for who he is, a sinful creature who has inherited his sin nature from Adam. No one looks to Him for salvation, and everyone stands guilty before the Lord. We are dead, dead, dead in our sins, "free will" means only partially dead, and I've never seen a partially dead person. Nor does the Bible support this.

Anyway, if God has to do the choosing, and I believe He does, then He also would have the ability to choose whenever he likes, and Ephesians 1:4 stands on its own without having to be "wordsmithed" in order to maintain free will.

So, the answer to your first question is because he must predestine if we are to be saved at all. We have no way of meriting heaven on our own, especially through a choice that would make God subject to our whims.

If God is the one to give us our faith, then rather than looking at it as something that we have to accept, (and if you'll look carefully, the word is consistently "receive" in the Bible, not "accept". Two different concepts), our eyes are opened, and we see the truth. We don't choose to have sight, we just get it.

And if you can suddenly see, we can equate this to "I believe!!!" and your new heart, given to you by the Holy Spirit, changes you into someone who wants to pray and/or preach, as opposed to free-will thinking that leads to praying/preaching as a sense of duty.

So your question is an important one because this is the difference between Calvinists and Arminians. Where each side comes from on the predestination issue leads to attitudes toward praying/preaching as end results. And you get a gold star for your question.

Answer 6

God has predestination for everyone... Heaven. You just have to choose it. That's why you should pray and preach. Let the people who haven't heard about God know about him so they can make the choice, too.

Answer 7

Predestination is Not a Bible word or teaching. If each one’s moment and manner of death were already fixed at the time of birth or earlier, there would be no need to avoid dangerous situations or to care for one’s health, and safety precautions would not alter mortality rates. But do you believe that a battlefield during war is as safe as one’s home far away from the war zone? Do you care for your health or take your children to the doctor? Why do smokers die three to four years younger, on an average, than nonsmokers? Why are there fewer fatal accidents when automobile passengers wear seat belts and when drivers obey traffic laws? Obviously, taking precautions is beneficial.

Zephaniah 2:3: “Seek Jehovah, all you meek ones of the earth . . . Seek righteousness, seek meekness. Probably you may be concealed in the day of Jehovah’s anger.” Notice the word "Probably." It's up to each individual free will.

According to the way the individuals respond, God can also mold them in the course they have selected of their own volition. (1 Chron. 28:9; Psalms 33:13-15 - 139:1-4, 23, 24) One’s heart condition can become fixed, either hardened in unrighteousness and rebellion or made firm in unbreakable devotion to Jehovah God and the doing of his will. (Job 2:3-10; Jer. 18:11, 12; Romans 2:4-11; Hebrews 3:7-10, 12-15 -
We can choose whether we will follow God’s moral guidance or not. That is why the prophet Moses could say: “I do take the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you today, that I have put life and death before you, the blessing and the malediction; and you must choose life in order that you may keep alive, you and your offspring, by loving Jehovah your God, by listening to his voice and by sticking to him.”—Deuteronomy 30:19, 20. Christians are commanded to preach by Jesus himself at Matthew 24:14 & 28:19, 20. Jehovah's Witnesses preach the good news of God's Kingdom world-wide in more than 230 nations. The message that the Witnesses proclaim involves the lives of people; they want to be careful to miss no one. (Zephaniah 2:2, 3.) Their calls are motivated by love—first for God, also for their neighbor.

If you would like further information or a free home Bible study, please contact Jehovah's Witnesses at the local Kingdom Hall. Or visit http://www.watchtower.org

Answer 8

God does not want you to do anything. Religions have humanised God - now people think that God has a body, speaks, listens, wants, desires, punishes, etc. What nonsense! The creator is much larger than the creation,and after all, what ARE we in the universe? A lot smaller than even a speck. I think it totally degrades God to give it a form, a gender and everything else.

God is the energy which existed before the Big Bang and the energy which keeps you and me alive today. When you meditate to sufficient extents, you will be in tune with this energy, and will realise the expanse of the universe, and how God can never, ever be put down in words/ pictures or any other form.

You are not required to pray or do anything - that is upto your satisfaction. The universe exists with its own rules - what you sow, so shall you reap. Nothing can save you from the result of your actions, not even 'God'. So, be good. Period.

Answer 9

God knows the future. He's also given man free will. It's true that God knows everything, even what choices we will make with our free will but that doesn't make those choices any less free. If you're a christian you pray and preach because there are rewards in heaven for praying and preaching the gospel. God allows you to have a part in bringing souls into His glorious presence.

Answer 10

"Predestined" means that it was God's original plan but He has allowed man to have a free will, therefore not everyone will respond - BUT EVERYONE HAS THE OPPORTUNITY

For God so loved the WORLD that He gave His one and only Son, that WHO-SO-EVER believes in Him shall not die but have ever lasting life.

Why Pray? It alligns us with God's will. Its talking with God. Why not pray?

Why Preach? In response to God's call. To share God with others. To partner with Him in reaching the world.

Answer 11

May be we have a fate which is our nationality, parents, color, or what ever characteristics. What are god's predestination's and who obliges you to pray and/or preach??Please specify