What do you think?
2007-05-03 15:28:42 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Almost. The only difference is that of focus and intensity. Prayer is more pointed and also more intense.
2007-05-05 03:23:50 · answer #1 · answered by nanhowala 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Anyone can hope for something. Only certain religion pray and/or hope for something.
2007-05-03 22:32:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No hope is not the same thing as praying. Praying is having faith in God. Hope is not having faith.
2007-05-03 22:33:42 · answer #3 · answered by Babydoll 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Focus. Pay attention. If you need money then accept it and you will look for it and probably find a bill lying in the gutter, which you would not have seen if you were not looking for it. You can hop and/or pray, and what you are doing is getting yourself to pay attention. "Seek and ye shall find", it works.
2007-05-03 22:40:34 · answer #4 · answered by RT 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Prayer is talking to God.
If that is what you do when you "hope" then I guess it could be called the same thing. However, I doubt that acurately describes your situation since people don't generally mean this when they "hope" for something.
~Neeva
2007-05-03 22:32:50 · answer #5 · answered by Neeva C 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If anyone ever really 'walks with God'-doesn't He already know that person's thoughts? Why beg and bother Him all the time about trivial silliness.
I wonder about all these types who claim they are 'God's Children'. Does He really make them beg for bread, and everything else they believe they need? Or for anything?
Generally its a slaveish and sorry way to act in front of parents. To pretend they are Ogres who require constant buttering-up and ugly displays of fear and 'respect' (bowing and scraping)
All that groveling could make anyone sick.-Does God really enjoy it?
2007-05-03 22:39:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Praying is asking God to intervene while hoping is just that hoping he intervenes
2007-05-03 22:34:58 · answer #7 · answered by † H20andspirit 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I think hoping is more like a wish.
Praying is actually asking for that wish.
2007-05-03 22:34:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on your heart. For God
knows the heart. If hoping is the
same as asking, then yes. But the
Word does say ask. Not hope. :)
2007-05-03 22:42:22 · answer #9 · answered by PokerChip 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
technically yes...
praying is leaving the "hope" in god's hand...
hoping is leaving the "god" out of the pray...
2007-05-04 03:25:10 · answer #10 · answered by efurong 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋