When a good person is dieying and we pray to keep them alive and they die anyway, why does that happen? I know people are going to say it's beacause it was was there destiny from God, so than why do we pray to alter the destiny of someone that must die?
2007-03-13 11:58:07 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You greatly over simplify things. If my 97 year old mother who has served God all her life is near death, what kindness would it be to ask God to keep her around another 20 years?
If my nephew with 3 young children is hit by a car, and lingering near death, how can I not pray that God would heal him and restore him for his sake and that of his family?
God answers the prayer of faith.
2007-03-13 12:06:51 · answer #1 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible says there is a time to be born and a time to die
We do not have the mind of Christ.
He alone knows the day of our death, however, we should pray for the sick because we don't know whether it is that person's time to die or not. We should always pray according to God's will.
2007-03-13 19:03:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are all mortal. You could say that these mortal bodies were designed to be temporary. We will all die eventually. We pray to keep somebody alive because we don’t want to loose them. We want to keep them with us. But to everything there is a season.
Instead of praying for God to keep somebody alive whose time has come, perhaps we should pray for help coping with death. God will give us comfort.
2007-03-13 19:08:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because sometimes we pray wrong things. I try to pray God's will be done. I want to be a player in the midst of what God is up to. Like Jesus, many people was praying for Him...but it was His job to die for us. It is hard to surrender to God's wish.
2007-03-13 19:03:45 · answer #4 · answered by SeeTheLight 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't pray to keep them alive. You can pray to God to give them strength and to not let them suffer but you must pray that God's will be done.
2007-03-13 19:02:17 · answer #5 · answered by Tracy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes what we pray for is answered, just not in the way we expected. God knows the best answer to all things.
2007-03-13 19:04:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
we pray to keep comunication with god! We arn't pre destanded we have agency to choose and based on those desions we make here will decide our future in the next life so pray can help if some one is dieing but if god need them more they will still die but it wil comfort them and us if we pray
2007-03-13 19:23:09 · answer #7 · answered by lisa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have God's promise that our prayers are not in vain, even if we don't receive specifically what we asked for Matt. 6:6
So prayer should not be seen as our means of getting God to do our will on earth, but rather as a means of getting God's will done on earth. God’s wisdom far exceeds our own.
2007-03-13 19:06:41 · answer #8 · answered by Heaven's Messenger 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people pray because they need to believe something greater than themself is out there. Without that belief people would be too afraid to live.
2007-03-13 19:11:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
who knows if prayer will alter circumstances, i don't pray to constantly ask for things
2007-03-13 19:01:42 · answer #10 · answered by LIVINGmylife 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋