WorldOfError

I didn't know the show but that image really creeped me out. Tbh I think fiction itself is bad but I enjoy some fiction every now and then so I should follow my advice. Omegaman 3.0 is right about the image's origin.

Big thoughts from all of you. Manuelf324, thank you for sharing the good turn out with your cousin. I've prayed for my brother concerning some issues and honestly we've seen some progress. I was knee deep in willful sin sometimes but other times I was much less so. The more I sacrifice, the less patient I feel when starting to pray for things the Bible itself calls good. I just don't understand why they should wait. I really respect those who keep asking God for his best when the timing seems terrible. This is where I struggle to "pray without ceasing". Petula, that's a testimony like something STRAIGHT out of the New Testament. I want to thank you for sharing it. Thank you Jesus for healing her friend's back and befriending her so intimately. Praise God.

I'm going to be honest here. I've seen a number of prayers work miraculously. Some instantly and some over some hours or days. Then I've seen some prayers that seemed overly carnal to me in the first place and never seemed to work. Then I've seen some prayers that seem fairly spiritual and unselfish yet never seemed to work. Maybe they did but I just couldn't see the progress that was being made. My question is, how many of you have seen prayers that worked in obviously miraculous ways? How many of you honestly believe you have seen the power of God work through your own prayer or that of a man, woman or child you personally know? One man prayed for cancer to leave a boy and it left him the next morning. Doctors called it a "miracle". This man was a Pentecostal pastor and he literally said it was "the most faithless" "unbelieving" "prayer a pastor's ever prayed" and it seemed to work. This same pastor also spoke a miraculous word of knowledge over a deaf man and his daughter in Church. This BOOSTED his faith and he then confidently prayed to end his deafness but it didn't seem to work. Then the next morning the deaf man said he could hear and he heard birds chirping that morning for the first time in years (I think 10 years). Honestly I've seen most of these sorts of prayers over the net by people like Todd White, Pete Cabrera Jr., and Tom Loud. To me theirs are obviously real but I've seen some obvious fakes too (Benny Hinn and other "megachurch" preachers). I'm going to say I think the heart is more important than the prayer itself. I'm going to say the integrity of the heart is what determines whether the prayer is answered or not. Maybe, despite the pastor's experience, it really is as simple as "when you ask you must believe and not doubt". God answers some GOOD prayers but then denies other GOOD prayers. Has anyone else seen this? If so, why do you think that is?

Isaiah 45:7 says "I form the light and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things." "The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom." Paradoxically, "God is love" and "Perfect love casts out fear." If we really want to feel fulfilled we can't ignore pain or suffering. The New Testament says God wants everyone to repent and be saved from hell. The New Testament instructs us to always pray with faith for everyone to repent and stop sinning. Though it doesn't say everyone will repent. Paradox abounds in the Bible. I want to hate all sin. I want everyone to fully repent. I really hope everyone repents. God is outside of time. Some hope He'll conform time to His will. Which is for all to repent. I sure hope so. "What is impossible for men is possible with God." He is Holy.

"Anyone who praises himself will be humbled, and anyone who humbles himself will be praised." That's my favorite line from "The Bible" series. It's also hands down one of my favorite sayings attributed to the Savior Yeshua aka "Jesus" the Christ. The Bible says more than once "God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble." Well everyone who believes in God wants his favor right? So what is humility really? What is the typical Christian's idea of humility? Google says humility is "a modest or low view of one's own importance; humbleness" I totally agree with this definition. How would someone like this think? How would they act? What does humility look like? Christian humility is happily obeying the Savior Yeshua. (impressive) Christian humility is praying for everyone to repent all the time no matter what (very impressive) Christian humility is always praying for God's will no matter what (very impressive) Christian humility is NOT sighing and complaining about life and death.