They Are Saying That Prayer, Does Not Work

[Featherbop]

I would think that the prayer would need the correct working attitude in order to be effective. If the one being prayed for does not also wish the prayer to be realized, would it work well or not?

 

[mutzrein]

Many people seem to think that prayer is making a request to God for something and that in order to receive what is being prayed for, 'faith' is required. Now faith in God and in His ability to grant a request is not an attitude of the mind or will. I believe prayer goes a lot deeper than that. Although it does include those 'prayer' times when one is alone with God for me it is more often just a daily walk of conversation and communion with the most High.

Faith stems from and is part of the essential element our walk with Him. And so as that communion grows, so does trust in Him and the understanding of His ways. So when we pray it is with the knowlege that what we pray for is according to His will. In fact I am finding that even without asking, God supplies the needs that He knows we have.

 

[Imagican]

Many people seem to think that prayer is making a request to God for something and that in order to receive what is being prayed for, 'faith' is required. Now faith in God and in His ability to grant a request is not an attitude of the mind or will. I believe prayer goes a lot deeper than that. Although it does include those 'prayer' times when one is alone with God for me it is more often just a daily walk of conversation and communion with the most High.

Faith stems from and is part of the essential element our walk with Him. And so as that communion grows, so does trust in Him and the understanding of His ways. So when we pray it is with the knowlege that what we pray for is according to His will. In fact I am finding that even without asking, God supplies the needs that He knows we have.

Right on brother!!

 

[Nocturnal_Principal_X]

Inspiring and true words mutzrein, thank you. Also consider the following from the Bible:

James 4:3
You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

The point that the Bible makes, thankfully has been like what others have said. The motive behind the prayer is important. One must have a motive of doing God’s will in their prayer, like mutzrein said.

Sometimes it is God's will for a person to be healed and sometimes it is not His will. A good example would be my mother’s death. It was not in His will for her to live. I am glad and joyous that God's will was done. My mother had various problems and pains in her life, now she is home with the Lord without pain. Praise God!

 

[mutzrein]

Thankyou men of God