Bitter about GOD?, do we expect too much ???

Question

When people pray to GOD do they expect too much?
praying for everyday help (get job, find love whatever)

as opposed to

praying for spiritual enrichment?

Is this why some people turn away & declare GOD not to exist?

Answer 1

i think some people do pray for the wrong things, and get bitter when they are not given what they asked for, in the way that they wanted. you are right to be praying for spiritual enrichment and advancement.

Answer 2

Either you believe or you don't. If you do, then praying will help you, if nothing else it will give you peace knowing it is out of your hands and a higher power is taking care of it. Which will happen if you truly believe and you will not turn away. If you are not really a Christian then you are asking for something from a God that you really do not believe in. Don't expect much.

Answer 3

I think when people pray to God they expect him to actually exist. So, yes, they are expecting too much...

Conveniently, Christians will say that God often says "no" to prayers. This is just a cop out for the fact that no prayers are ever answered. This has been statistically proven.

And if you disagree, then ask yourself why God answered your prayer to get a job interview or for a zit to disappear, when he IGNORES the prayers of 40,000 children who DIE EVERY SINGLE DAY from starvation and malnutrition.

That's 40,000 every day. Not every year. EVERY DAY!!!

Wake up! There is no God.

Answer 4

We have to allow God’s Spirit to teach us and we need to be ready to listen and learn. We should bare our souls in complete honesty to God and tell Him about everything we hope for and desire, yet at the same time realize that we live in obedience to His will. He knows what’s best for us and sometimes that means not giving us what we think we want. Very often our desires are deceptive. We think if we just had that one thing we pray for our lives would be perfect. Yet God know that one thing would lead us in the wrong direction. Pray about everything, but at the same time learn to trust Him completely.

He is teaching me about trust. I have come to understand that I would never have learned as much as I have or come to trust Him this much if He had intervened in a particular situation months ago, as I pleaded in prayer.

Answer 5

People do not "turn away & declare god not to exist" because they see that another idea seems more practical to them. It has nothing to do with anger towards something but rather the ability to think outside the box.

Answer 6

Could be a reason.
God has said that if you would seek FIRST the kingdom of God(to seek HIM FIRST) everything else would come. There is an appropriate order.

Thanks to these T.V. preachers and other charlatans, people have learned to think of God as some sort of genie, or a cosmic santa claus, ready and able to give them whatever they ask for.
Certain verses are taken way out of context to "prove" their teaching.
The unlearned fall for it.

The thing to remember is that God is the one to be served, and we are the ones to serve Him. THAT is the order, the proper order.

Answer 7

Praying for every one removes maximum miseries.

Praying for daily help and spiritual enrichment etc. donot yield those results and people turn away.

Answer 8

No, I think you will find that most of us who have "turned away from God"

Have done so after spending years searching for Him, and finding out that he didn't exist. Belief in God requires Faith, which is given from God.

You have to understand that if people don't have Faith, then, according to your bible, it is because God didn't give it to them.

I no longer believe in God because, I never heard from him, or received any proof of his existence. He could change my mind completely tomorrow, if he exists, by presenting me with some form of proof, but he chooses not too, therefore if you are right and God does exist, he created me for hell.

I "turned away" from God because I couldn't justify belief in his existence, not because I didn't get the bicicle I wanted.

Answer 9

People whom are weak, pray….they do not have the intelligence to realize that sometimes life sucks. Church's prey on these people. Notice the similarity between Pray and Prey.

Answer 10

NR,

I'm sure that it is, unfortunately. If you absolutely have to, must, gotta' win the Lottery don't pray to God. He doesn't really care who wins. If you want to pray for someone's salvation, for their spiritual awakening then that is probably a more appropriate purpose. Now, God didn't tell me this to my face but His teachings would indicate that God is concerned with our spiritual health, not our bank accounts or love lives.