Prayer

Today has been nuts. Seriously. God has brought a lot of things and I am amazed.

But one thing I want to write about is that prayer was talking about in my school today. Now I do go to a private school but its in no way christian. I study medicine and we talked about alternative medicine and prayer came up right after hypnosis but before meditation. My teacher, who from talking is not a christian, was saying that studies show that prayer can make a difference. She indicated that at some point that you just grab to believe in anything. 

I almost had to stop myself from laughing. Anyone who has had God really answer their prayers knows that its not just grabbing at anything. It's praying to a soverign almighty God who has the power to work miracles. But it's heartbreaking to me that everyone doesn't know that God answers prayer. Even when I didn't know God--- I prayed in times where things were hard. It was my last ditch effort and you know what I found--- He answered them! God is faithful and He answers prayers and that simple truth is something that SO MANY are missing. It's that much more convicting to share. When the bible says in 1 john 3:17 "¹⁷ If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?" But what about prayer? why don't we call eachother out for not praying? 

But then we got to this point in the lecture in reference to the fact that prayer can work when you pray for someone else. The slide said:

—"Raises ethical questions as the recipient may be unaware or the possibility exists to harm people from a distance, without their knowledge"

I've never heard of praying for someone being an ethical issue? What a sad world that praying for someone could be called into question. It says that a nation that says "In God we trust" doesn't know God nor do they understand prayer. When explained it was said that prayer coudl be like voodoo too in that it could bring harm to someone. That made me want to cry. That people could think that we could hurt eachother through prayer. As if any of us have power in prayer but really God has the power.  


So friends- we need to start explaining prayer to people. We need to tell them that we don't have the power God does. I've never heard of someone praying ill on someone else but I can promise that God ahs the power to say "Yes" "No" or "later" and ultimately no matter what our prayers we have to understand it's "Gods will be done." Let's not let satan tell the lie that prayer is bad. Let's not let him have that foothold.