Whether you're agnostic or just a wayward something else. Do you ever pray to have some sort of religious experience?
2007-05-30 18:10:50 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
To answer your question; Yes, I do pray all the time to God asking him to help me believe in him and I have asked for some sort of sign from him also.
Don't let anyone kid you; most people of any faith always question their faith (belief) at times in their lives.
2007-05-30 18:27:13 · answer #1 · answered by cut-it-out 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, sort of. Even long time christians can question their beliefs from time to time. Sometimes when things get stale and it seems as if nothing is happening in my walk with God, I will pray and let God know that I am having a hard time with this, and ask for some confirmation. Sooner or later, He always comes through and lets you know he exists. In a world like ours it is hard not to believe that God exists.
2007-05-31 03:58:10 · answer #2 · answered by tommyburgerz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that's a great thing to do. To find out whether there is a God or not. Invite God to let you know in some way that he is real - tell him you would like to believe in a good, loving God (or whatever God you want to believe in), if that God was real.
I've been raised a Christian and I've always believed in God and 'known' that he was real. But both my parents became Christians in their teens - both of them through a gradual process/spiritual journey, gradually becoming aware that God was real, and understanding who he was (not a single-moment 'conversion'). My Mum's brother became a Christian when she was 16, and this made her interested in Christianity. She had always been an agnostic - unsure if God was real or not. So she prayed something like "God, if you are real, and if you are good, show yourself to me". And in a sense, he did.
2007-06-01 05:27:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh yes, as a Chrisitan, I've heard wonderful stories. Here's one: There was a swimmer, who did diving, and one night he went to practice during nighttime in a indoor pool. He turned on a small light, just enough for him to see his shadow on the wall. When he was preparing on the deck where swimmers dive off of, he turned himself to a "T" by sticking his hands left and right out. From the shadow, he saw a cross and thought of Jesus' cruxifiction and began crying and prayed. That night he accepted Christ. After he prayed, the janitor came in and turned on the lights of the pool, and the swimmer saw that there was no water in the pool.
That's just an amazing story. My mother is a pastor at my church, and she is one amazing person. I believe in God as my savior of sins, but I still desire that moment where I'd feel the presence of God. Maybe it's just not my moment yet.
2007-05-31 01:29:50 · answer #4 · answered by so help me?! 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i pray for the willingness.....the willingness to believe, or at least i used to. Perhaps instead of praying for "some sort of religious experience" you may need to humble yourself and take a little bit of time to appreciate the spiritual beauty in everyday life...in the simple things.
What helped me was getting into gratitude. Making a list of 5 things that i am grateful for everyday.
Pray for knowledge of your Gods will for you and the power to carry that out.
2007-05-31 01:19:33 · answer #5 · answered by trinity 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hello i do appreciate your sincerity, yes I've pray for that spiritual intervention and yes i did receive it. It takes a sincere and humble crying heart and patients for that spiritual
encounter, and a faith unfeigned when you are in one accord with the spirit of God its a presence and a trembling that is felt from the inside and out like you've never experience before. I have prayed on numerous occasion sometimes i feel God presence and sometimes i don't, but i know he hears me. Jesus says the spirit of God is like the wind you can't see it and you don't know where it's blowing from but you know it's blowing.
2007-05-31 01:56:59 · answer #6 · answered by Godknows 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Who or what am I supposed to pray to? If there were a god I would expect to have some spontaneous feeling about it and I don't. You can pray as much as you like but unless you are going to delude yourself nothing will come of it.
2007-05-31 01:57:09 · answer #7 · answered by Ted T 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why would anyone do that? If you are praying it must mean that you already believe. There has never been any proof that praying has any effect on anything.
2007-05-31 01:14:49 · answer #8 · answered by phyre52 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
At some point in ever one's life, God will bring people to call upon His name. Praise the Lord!
2007-05-31 01:21:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Who, exactly, would you be praying to? How can one pray to believe in God? If you're praying, you believe, right?
2007-05-31 01:19:03 · answer #10 · answered by writersblock73 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋