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Prayer request **THREAD**

hi

I'm a buddhist. And I lean to the more atheist side of everything. But I feel terrible these days. Can you pray for me? Can you pray for the magic to return? Please, don't laugh nor think it is stupid or materialistic and superficial. I assure you, it's not.
 
I'm not religious but I do believe in the power of prayer. It's the same thing as a magic spell. Focus energy into a common goal.
OP I feel for you. Take some of this excess energy, I hope it serves you and your wife well. The energy that makes the universe is the god of every religion. Everyone is right...
 
I'd like a prayer requesting that God grant me strength and courage to quit crystal meth... again. I am coasting downwards on my first relapse and I can't believe I forgot this feeling. It's terrible and it doesn't stop hurting. My heart so desperately wants to stop this madness, but my brain does as it pleases, which is anything to stimulate those dopamine receptors. I also ask for fear to be placed on me, the fear of needles specifically to help me abstain from shooting up. I also ask that God bless all the addicts around me with the same, so we can get out of this vicious cycle of suffering.
 
When I was in high school one of my best friends was killed in the same manner. We were all at a party (typical Friday night), getting drunk and high. My 3 friends left for the night saying "see you tomorrow night". That was the last time is see one of them alive. My one friend driving rolled his truck and one of the the two passengers died. The driver was never the same. He did very little prison time (8-12 months) due to the testimony of the deceased parents who pleaded with the judge to go easy on him. The real punishment came in the form of severe emotional Scars. He's never been right. I hope and pray for everyone involved.
 
prayers goes out to all of you!!!

i am not that religous but i do believe in God and Jesus and i do pray...

please i am asking you guys to pray for me as well!

my girlfriend is away and she doesnt come back until next week but her and her mother are nervous being over ther and ther lives are somewhat at risk being over there! please pray for my girlfriend and her family to return home safe and healthy!

i will pray for you guys tonight... i hope all goes well for each and every one of you!
 
I haven't prayed for a long time.
Prayers have more of a psychological function, than a spiritual one. Re-affirmation.
People, I think, feel like they can confess anything to God.
Their most vulnerable truths and feelings, and what not.
But, I don't believe the act has anything to do with God.

God isn't a disembodied presence "listening" to prayers, in real time.
He's not going to bend the universe to cater to the unfortunate and the downtrodden.

When people pray, they're praying to themselves.
You're more likely to remember something if you say it out loud repeatedly. (Re-affirmation.)
Believing that your fate is out of your control, however, limits the rate at which you can change.

i will pray for you guys tonight.
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I'm always a bit off-put, honestly, when somebody says this.
It's a bit presumptuous; I don't want you to pray for me.

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Here's my prayer:
Everything is as it should be, at all times. Too often, I fail to see that.
God has given us everything. There is nothing more that I want.
Change comes from within; only I can change myself.
 
ForEverAfter said:
I haven't prayed for a long time.
Prayers have more of a psychological function, than a spiritual one. Re-affirmation.
People, I think, feel like they can confess anything to God.
Their most vulnerable truths and feelings, and what not.
But, I don't believe the act has anything to do with God.

God isn't a disembodied presence "listening" to prayers, in real time.
He's not going to bend the universe to cater to the unfortunate and the downtrodden.

When people pray, they're praying to themselves.
You're more likely to remember something if you say it out loud repeatedly. (Re-affirmation.)
Believing that your fate is out of your control, however, limits the rate at which you can change.



I'm always a bit off-put, honestly, when somebody says this.
It's a bit presumptuous; I don't want you to pray for me.

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Here's my prayer:
Everything is as it should be, at all times. Too often, I fail to see that.
God has given us everything. There is nothing more that I want.
Change comes from within; only I can change myself.
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well, everybody has ther opinion aha... this isnt the appropriate thread for that though
 
Maybe it's slightly inappropriate for me to state my honest opinions about the subject at hand, and not adhere rigidly to the guidelines outlined by the OP, but it's not wildly inappropriate... I have Christian tendencies and I included a prayer at the end.

The Book of Job (minus the added epilogue) suggests that we should not expect anything from God.
We must learn to accept the things that we cannot change, and pro-actively change the things we can.
Nothing undone by prayer.

Treating prayer as a request line for divine intervention is contrary to the basic tenants of Christianity, as I understand them. And as someone who believes in the tenants of Christianity, I feel like it is my duty (so to speak) to point it out.

Being thankful for what you have when praying is fine, but asking for stuff from God is wrong.
It is inappropriate (IMO) to expect your fate to be changed, by request.
It contradicts numerous messages in the NT and the OT.

There are some things we cannot change in this world.
The things we can change, we must change ourselves.

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This thread is over 5 years old and it's less than two pages long.
So, I don't feel like I'm derailing it in any way or breaking any forum guidelines.
If you don't want to discuss prayer with me, simply do not respond.
 
i dont really have much to say to that because i have never made an effort to "educate" myself on the tenants of Christianity as well as a lot of aspects of the christain religion...

but is it wrong to ask for help? or ask help for others?
 
It's "wrong" to ask God for help, IMO.
The ideally pious individual would be humble and have no expectations of their creator.
Although God is "powerful", that doesn't mean that he takes requests.

The saying "God works in mysterious ways" applies here, I think.
It is not our place to question our fate or implicate our creator as imperfect.
Whatever you perceive as something that requires other-worldly intervention does not.
The universe is perfect. We have everything we need.

Of course it isn't wrong to ask others for help.
But asking others to sign your prayer-petition for divine intervention is not okay (IMO).

If you genuinely need help, you should seek it out in the world... I'm personally more than happy for anyone who needs help (with anything) to PM me the nature of their problem and their location, and I will research some local resources.
 
I've already answered that, more than once. It is "wrong" to request divine intervention.
Doesn't matter if you're requesting it for your sick mother, yourself or your goldfish.
 
I will pray for you
I didnt know you had to be religious or christian to pray...go figure.
All I know is there is a power greater than me
Hope your wife does well
 
How about we all join for a blessing creative visualisation for everyone on this board? I have learnt to send healing/blessing energy to people and animals (and nature), and it's wonderful, but this is something everyone can do simply by using their intention. I'll try to think up a good visual that encompasses it all and can transmit our good intentions.

We can't just pray, you can also learn to send healing or blessing energy to other forms of life when you put your mind to it. All it takes is a sincere desire on your part and some small effort, and that's it. We're all connected to an immense reservoir of powerful spiritual energy and just need to find a way to channel it so we can make use of it.
 
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ForEverAfter said:
The saying "God works in mysterious ways" applies here, I think.
It is not our place to question our fate or implicate our creator as imperfect.
Whatever you perceive as something that requires other-worldly intervention does not.
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This doesn't take into account the idea that God lives within us and we are all take part in God. Or wasn't that was Jesus life was all about, to show us that we can embody the divine and do miracles out of the power that lies within us, if I'm not mistaken. Seems like not many wants to keep that in mind.

But if you can call up healing energy and direct it at others, why wouldn't you. Seems more like a sin not to use it. It's not about ego, it's about connecting with your divine nature and using it in service to the rest of creation.
 
This doesn't take into account the idea that God lives inside us and we are all a form of God.
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I don't really understand the response... I did take that into account, and wrote specifically about it.

Wasn't that was Jesus life was all about, to show us that we can embody the divine and do miracles out of the power that lies within us?
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I don't think the main function of the Jesus allegory is to inform us that we can literally perform miracles, no.
In fact, I don't think that was an intended function at all.

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As for the healing stuff, we aren't in agreement about whether or not it's possible to heal people at will... So, I can't really answer the question of "why wouldn't I" pray / heal people (because I don't believe it has any purpose)...

The physical universe, or what we've observed of it anyway, functions according to causality. What your describing (being able to heal people by focusing on them) appears to defy causality, or - at least - I can't see how it works and you haven't made any attempt to explain it...

It might work, you could argue, so where's the harm in trying?
But that logic could rationalize all manner of bizarre behavior.

If people could physically heal each other at will, then the world - at large - would be aware of it... don't you think? There have been some very wealthy people throughout history, like Andy Kaufman, who spent enormous amounts of time and money exhausting all alternative medical practices and healers to defeat cancer and other fatal illnesses/diseases. It isn't plausible, to me, that physical healing is possible yet somehow it has managed to keep itself (pretty much) buried throughout history.

It isn't clear to me what spiritual healing is.
People talk about vague energies, of which I am not convinced.
I don't believe in miracles...
 
Whether it's philosophically right or wrong is another matter than being able to do it, but I don't see how it could be wrong. That would be almost like saying someone who has good medical or psychological information to offer someone in a given moment shouldn't give it as it would be putting yourself in the place of God.

I don't know how it's like for anyone else but I've experienced the feeling of healing energy flowing through me spontaneously a few times now. The first was once I was looking at my cat and feeling a lot of love for him so I suddenly had the impulse that I wanted to bless him and to my suprise was able to feel a strong, positive energy flowing through my body. Since then it has happened a few times, sometimes just by thinking of it when I'm in the right state of mind, and I can feel this healing energy which feels like it's going out from my heart, down my arms, and out through my hands so I feel a natural impulse to extend them out to the world.

Might sound funny, and I don't claim to have actually healed anyone, but it's definitely a healing energy as you can clearly feel it going through yourself, or you feel it in yourself and heal yourself at the same time. I've also noticed it's been stronger when I've been in touch with Christ or felt his presence, like when I've asked or called for him, or sometimes when you're in higher consciousness states he's there (to me, as I see him as a teacher). I've often felt that healing energy coming to myself when I've needed it but I've also found it can strengthen that power in yourself.

It's a bit hard to explain to someone who doesn't have any experience with it, but it's one of those spiritual experiences that are more real or physical and leave you in no doubt of what have happened. To me it feels like a kind of warmth and electricity going out from your heart and down your arms/hands. The first time I experienced this was at a fair when I went to see a Swedish healer who made me turn my palms upwards and put his hands above mine. I felt a strong current of warmth and electricity from his one hand, and he said this was because my feminine side was open and my masculine side was closed. So that was strange, but it feels like that within me too, just more subtle than that and I don't know if anyone would be able to feel it.

But I feel it as well as anything else, it might be best compared to the feeling of sunshine when it's not that warm. You can just about feel it, it's just not that strong, but it's unmistakenly there. The thing it reminds me of the most is the feeling I got when our family priest held his hands over my head to bless me when I confirmed my membership in the church when I was 15, and again when he came to see me in rehab, it was the same feeling. It's ever so subtle, you need to be sensitive, but I can imagine he feels something similar to what I do when I feel it inside.

So some priests actually feel what they are talking about. But he's something special and has the power of God/Christ/The Holy Spirit in him, and a lot of spiritual authority, so I respect him, I've mentioned him before. I also talked to him about feeling that power inside you and said it feels like a combination of a healing and blessing energy, and he said it can feel like something like that. But obviously I'm just a beginner with these things and haven't spent my life in service like he has, so he's much more powerful than me, naturally.

He's also a good example of how you can find enlightened and genuinly spiritual people in all faiths and that the escape to religions of different cultures isn't really necessary. These things are more a matter of preference and Christianity is one of the belief-systems that is the hardest to advance within. But someone really dedicated and more high-consciousness can reach enlightenement within all faiths (it's not about the faith you practice, the key lies in you).

But yes, that ability just came by itself without having done anything for it, really. I don't know why or how it came. Sometimes wonder how far I can take it, but haven't really done anything yet.
 
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