Do you believe in the POWER OF PRAYER?

[stevi1123 0]

I pray all throughout each day. I believe! I believe! I believe!

And I am proud of it!

[MichelleN 0]

Honestly? No. I believe in the power of my own actions. I don't think there's some superior being up there controlling different aspects of my life. That's not to say I don't hope for good things to happen. But that's entirely different from praying. I do agree however with the comment that if a person believes that prayer will be the answer, then they will be more apt to see it 'working'. If you believe strongly enough, you'll forget the times when something didn't happen and focus entirely on the times when it did.

[IAMX 3,055]

Honestly? No. I believe in the power of my own actions. I don't think there's some superior being up there controlling different aspects of my life. That's not to say I don't hope for good things to happen. But that's entirely different from praying. I do agree however with the comment that if a person believes that prayer will be the answer, then they will be more apt to see it 'working'. If you believe strongly enough, you'll forget the times when something didn't happen and focus entirely on the times when it did.

I just call the last sentence optimism. But yeah, beliefs you mention are a thing of personal conveniences, not logic.

Edited August 17, 2008 by SRVT

[*Maureen* 0]

yes!!

[amorsiempre 0]

I believe in the power of prayers .

[Rocky_nBullwinkle 6]

Right. Prayers can move mountains. Whatever you ask in prayer, if you ask in faith, it will be given to you. I believe in the power of prayer.

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I just want to know if my fellow VISA JOURNEY members believes in the power of PRAYER...

Even we are in a different religion, PRAYER is a big help for us to get what we really desires.. It's a very short way to talk to our GOD, right?

And also, Do you appreciate all the things that happened in your life? Whether it is small or big... Have you thank GOD for that?

Nothing is wrong with prayers.. it's just really helps..... a LOT!

FOR EVERYONE THAT ASKETH RECEIVETH; AND HE THAT SEEKETH FINDETH; AND TO HIM THAT KNOCKETH IT SHALL BE OPENED. MATTHEW 7:8

WHATSOEVER YE SHALL ASK IN PRAYER, BELIEVING, YE SHALL RECEIVE. MATTHEW 21:22

GOD BLESS EVERYONE!

[tammy2688 1]

Prayer works and it is no coincidence that my deepest desires have been fulfilled. Looking at my sig, it is clear how profoundly I believe in God and the power of prayer.

This is not all there is. There is a higher power. God asks us to call on Him when we are separated from peace. Prayer is the way to attain that peace and happiness for me and many of us here.

God bless,

Tam

[Not Available 0]

Prayer gets me through the day

[tammy2688 1]

One thing that is true for nonbelievers is that when your life is in clear danger and you are clinging to your last hope, you will be begging for help from this Superior being you do not believe in. This I have seen personally and from afar. About optimism, honestly if you believe you should get everything you pray for and if in the case you do get every single thing you pray for, and that is your proof of God's existence, that is a very immature way of looking at it. Every wish is not a good one, or a right one and we should not have them. I speak from my own experience in wanting things in my younger years which were impractical and negative - had I been granted those wishes, my life would have been destroyed. The fact that our wishes get selective answers proves to me there is a God who is much more wise and grand than I could ever hope to call myself.

Belief is something that cannot be proven or argued. Some are lucky to reach that level of communication with God. Most are not so lucky and that is entirely their choice to believe or not to believe or whether or not they want to attain this relationship with God.

I hope those of us who have attained this stage continue to practice your prayers and patience and reach even higher levels with God.

God bless,

Tam

Edited September 9, 2008 by tammy2688

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Prayers don't always work. Ask Stuart Shepard of Focus on the Family.

A couple of weeks before August 28th—the night that Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for President, in a Denver football stadium—Stuart Shepard, the digital-media director of the lobbying arm of Focus on the Family, one of the most powerful organizations on the religious right, posed a question to his Internet viewers. “Would it be wrong,” he asked, “to pray for rain?” Shepard’s answer, apparently, was no, because he proceeded to do just that. He prayed for there to be rain—abundant rain, torrential rain, “rain of Biblical proportions”—in Denver on August 28th. “I’m praying for unexpected, unanticipated, unforecasted rain that starts two minutes before the speech is set to begin,” he said, adding, “I know there will probably be people who will pray for seventy-two degrees and clear skies, but this isn’t a contest.”

In the event, Obama gave his speech under clear skies with the thermometer at seventy-two degrees. It’s hard to draw definitive conclusions from this about the efficacy of prayer. Still, Shepard and others who assume that the Almighty faxes meteorological talking points as a matter of routine must now be puzzling over what He meant last week by arranging for a hurricane just severe enough to disrupt the opening of the Republican National Convention (and freshen the public’s memories of the present Administration’s Katrina incompetence) but, mercifully, not so severe as to do too much damage to the innocent.

[Chica Yeyé 41]

I pray. And all the times my prayers are answered. Sometimes though, the answer is NO.

And I am serious, I do pray.