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Date Posted: 09:29:55 11/16/03 Sun
Author: Niraji - 18 Oct 2003
Subject: Re: Power of Prayer
In reply to: Eponymous - 16 Oct 2003 's message, "Power of Prayer" on 09:29:08 11/16/03 Sun

"This is like setting an exam for God to see if God will pass it or not."

He said both the Old and New Testaments said "very clearly" that you must not put God to the test. The new research, dubbed the Mantra project, was led by Dr Mitch Krucoff, a cardiologist, whose pilot studies had led him to believe that prayer could have measurably beneficial effects
Prayer is effective, but it is not a vending machine.

Do you treat prayer like a vending machine? You know, you put in your 50 cents, push a button, and get what you want. If so, it's time to put an out of order sign on your personal vending machine.

Prayer does work, but our ideas about how it should work and what it is for have to come back into line with what God taught us.

Often a parent doesn't give the child what he wants, but he gives what that child needs. A child may want only to play his Play Station, but the father sent him out to play with friends also. A child may be satisfied with her trashed room, but Mom makes her clean it up.

God refuses to be the vending machine in our lives. He doesn't always give us what we want - he does better. He gives us what we need

God is no cosmic vending-machine. He's something much better. He's our Father.

And whatever you ask in My name that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son." Verse14. "If you ask anything in My name, I will do it." Jesus here is not saying, "maybe I will do it." He is saying he "will do it", and why are not Christians doing greater works the Jesus? When Jesus himself said they would. See John 14:12. Verse 12 " Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father."
Matthew 21:22. "And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive

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