Do you believe that Prayer helps?

thank :)

I dunno. I'm dubious. It didn't help the jews in the concentration camps.

It sure didn't.

Actually it did. Prayer helps us align our will with that of God. Many Jews were comforted in their sufferings because of prayer. AND Israel could never have come back into existence without the Holocaust. God used Hitler's evil for ultimate good.

I think it can help the person doing the praying to relax, much as meditation does.

I live every single second,

of every single day in prayer ~

I'd be lost without the grace of God...

Absolutely.

There is much evidence of it working even among the non-religious.

For some I do think it helps. It doesn't work for me because I'm not religious. But I do practice positive affirmations/thinking to turn things around for myself and that is similar in a sense. Your focusing yourself through prayer or whatever works for you. At least that's how I see it.

Yes for some it does work, if you believe. :-)

While I appreciate the attention, what is the deal with hijacking my poll? How dare you presume to thank everyone for responding to my poll.

Replying to Jack's Edited to say: Wow, Lemon you sure are disrespectful. After all my raves, etc. to your questions, etc.
I have friends here and it's my right to reply to them.
Then you go and block me. How very childish.

If I believed prayers worked, that would mean all the people who prayed to stop the beating by their parent or to have food in their belly weren't asking hard enough and that is worse than someone not being there at all. Prayers don't work because that god is man made.

What you just said sounded real dumb. Lol

Awesome. You think I'm wrong, but instead of respectfully saying why I might be wrong ACCORDING to you, you call me dumb. How very tolerant of you.

Allow me to point out an important aspect of God: He isn't a genie in a bottle that we can rub whenever we want a miracle. He has requirements on our heart before He is required to answer. If people are living in rebellion to His Word, knowingly or unknowingly, He is under no obligation to heed our requests. Sometimes He answers anyway, because He's merciful. Sometimes He answers, but it isn't the way we expected. For example, the one being beaten might be provided with stamina, primarily emotional, so that they can endure the situation, and come out a better person, with greater ability to help others.

God is not man-made; He made man. The only alternative is to believe that we all came from a rock millions of years ago.

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Your comment makes me wonder what your basis for understanding "the Christian god" may be. It sounds like you've read a lot of what other people have said about Him, without reading what He said about Himself. Try talking to someone who knows Him personally, such as myself, rather than people who are doubtful of His very existence, and I think that you'll find that the picture of God that has been painted in your mind by your sources is highly inaccurate. Above all, read His own description of Himself in the Bible, and hear from Him Who and What He is.



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....with a few caveats: "Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." James 5:16. However: "He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination." Proverbs 28:9

If you live God's way, to the best of your power, He hears and answers prayer. If you reject His ordinances for living, He hates that you even dare to ask Him for things.

I agree 100%

While I appreciate the attention, what is the deal with hijacking my poll? How dare you presume to thank everyone for responding to my poll.

Replying to edifyguy Edited to say: Wow, Lemon you sure are disrespectful. After all my raves, etc. to your questions, etc.
I have friends here and it's my right to reply to them.
Then you go and block me. How very childish.

It has certainly helped ME many times in what has often been a very turbulent life in my younger days.

Beautiful pic

In my opinion true humility is always beautiful.Thank You.

..... yes, that is my belief inspite of the folks who continually assault our religious upbringing.

It does. Even if it's just in our minds, it still helps those who pray. My neighbor's youngest daughter was diagnosed with Brain Cancer and given a maximum of 6 months to live... all of us who knew her prayed for her. She died almost 3 years later without pain.

Yes I do.

i believe so

Great pic

I luv this pic Samie

thank you:)

Yes.There is power in prayer.

YES! YES! YES!

I know personally and absolutely that prayer works. Without it I would be dead.

Same here !

Bless us both.

God still has a purpose for you brother.

He must.