Dear Brethren,
Am sure most of us are familiar with the abbreviation "W.W.J.D." and may be you have put on a wrist band with that inscription before.
I personally put on one of those and surely the message was so encouraging (especially in trying/testing times) and I loved my band. Unfortunately I have it no more.
Now recently I saw a potential substitute (like Pepsi can do for Coke sometimes) but this time with the inscription "PUSH-Pray Until Something Happens". The message sounds good to me but am not sure it is in line with what the Bible teaches about prayer. I have my doubts and need your help here.
Brethren with reference to what scripture teaches about prayer, should I go ahead and buy this wrist band or not?
Yours
Troubled brother
dear troubled brother, i guess you are really troubled, how about you pray until you are not troubled any more...hehehe.
ReplyDeletei guess we all pray until something happens and its okay to pray like that........i guess thats the same reason moses prayed to God and said that "If your presence doesnt go with us, we dont want to live this place" so what is wrong with praying until God gives an answer??????????????
Pray Until Something Happens.... hahaha
ReplyDeleteI do not know but i personally would not buy. Sometimes people can look at wrist bands as stuff that hold some power but they do not.
The important thing is to teach our selves the discipline to pray even without a PUSH wrist band on our hand.
Also it is very clear according to Scripture that prayer changes things. I hold this position, "Every time we pray, things change and if you have prayed this morning and praying even now, Change is taking place in your life, family and friends because GOD is at work and hears our prayers". Though this change is not always the we may have hoped...................
Chris
Personally i go by Mathew 7:7, simple as that.
ReplyDeleteThe Bible tells us to pray without seizing, i guess it will be important for our dear brother to continue in prayers, as he seeks Gods face
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Milton
I like the fact that you are troubled. You see many people just keep on coming up with Christian phrases without really deeply consulting the good book. This applies especially to the Pentecostals; no offense at all.
ReplyDeleteSo i really dont think that you need help at all. Its very ok to disagree with some of these phrases, like myself i dont agree with the issue of fasting to get something. So brother you have just become aware of yourself in line with the Word. Peace
Hello Anonymous?
ReplyDeleteI read your post and could not help muse on the clichés especially the theological ones- or seemingly theological. Let us briefly analyze the one that is troubling you-PUSH. I believe the creator of this one meant to show the importance of persistence in prayer. He/She probably found great inspiration from the parable of the persistent widow in Luke 18. However, there is a subtle fatal effect it can have on our sub-conscious minds. Suppose we persist in prayer as the cliché suggests. Suppose God answers our prayers, most especially in the way we hoped. Does that mean we cease praying? That small, seemingly, unimportant word, “until”, changes the whole picture. It suggests a conditional cessation of an activity.
“I will play outside until it starts raining.”
“I will love you until death parts us.”
“I will volunteer in church until the year ends.”
Notice how the former depends on the latter; the playing on the raining; the loving on death occurring; the volunteering on the year ending…the praying on something happening. This clearly contradicts 1 Thessalonians 5:17- Pray without ceasing.
Clichés have their place but most of them, if thought about critically, are seriously flawed. This then, I believe, is the conclusion of the matter. Judge all clichés by the word of God. God exhorts us to love Him with our minds. Let us be sure to do exactly that.
you should always be ready for your preblem men ,in praying verry arely not pray after get in .
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ReplyDeleteIn life, many thoughts are born in the course of a moment, an hour, a day. Some are dreams, some visions. Often, we are unable to distinguish between them. To some, they are the same; however, not all dreams are visions. Much energy is lost in fanciful dreams that never bear fruit. But visions are messages from the Great Spirit, each for a different purpose in life. Consequently, one person's vision may not be that of another. To have a vision, one must be prepared to receive it, and when it comes, to accept it. Thus when these inner urges become reality, only then can visions be fulfilled. The spiritual side of life knows everyone's heart and who to trust. How could a vision ever be given to someone to harbor if that person could not be trusted to carry it out. The message is simple: commitment precedes vision.
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dear troubled brother, people think that such prayer is like a "four time four" in cars.
ReplyDeleteThis is my last comment, Stop being a baptist and just be Christ like....Pray like Jesus Prayed....Pray the way he taught you to pray through His word...instead of studying these wrists just pray....the author of that phrase is trying to pray in there own way...so bottom line is Just pray.
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