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Subject: This was really good, Hillbilly

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dori

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Date Posted: 21:43:04 06/27/13 Thu
In reply to: Hillbilly 's message, "Getting Prayers Answered" on 16:51:08 06/27/13 Thu

This part spoke to me:
"Passages such as this always come with a caveat. James gives one in James 4:3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. We again here from James on this matter in James 1:6-7 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. 7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. We see then that scripture must be understood from "scripture with scripture". It is evident that receiving is dependent on attitude when we pray."

When my mom was in a coma for a week in the hospital, my sisters and I prayed fervently for God to let her live. She lived, but never came out of the coma. She was that way for 2 years before she finally passed away from pneumonia. I was very mad at God. My Great-grandma talked to me a lot about Biblical things when I was growing up and she always recited the verse that says, whatever your needs, if you take them to the Lord and you really believe, he will listen. What I didn't understand then is that I didn't bring it to the Lord in the way you describe. I wasn't close to the Lord and I don't think I truly believed she could be saved, so I didn't have that right attitude. I was angry at God for over a year, but then I missed having him in my life and I started paying attention to that inner voice that knew I wasn't really in a good place to bring it to the Lord. I'm just glad I came to my senses.

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[> [> Subject: Thanks Dori for sharing that

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Hillbilly
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Date Posted: 07:13:19 06/28/13 Fri

There is a saying that is common and I'm sure you have heard.

"Be careful what you pray for, you might just get it."

Every one of us have an appointment with death and your mother was evidently at the gate. God may have answered that prayer and your mother lived for two more years but wouldn't it have been better if she had gone on before laying that long in a coma.

I read one time of a mother who prayed for her son who was deathly sick and at the point of death. Her prayer was; "No matter what Lord, just let him live". The boy recovered and you heard of him as Al Capone.

We don't know about tomorrow but we certainly know who holds tomorrow. We therefore as Christians need to put things in God's hands and let go. Hard and seemingly impossible at times? Absolutely but faith is believing Romans 8:28; "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose."

[> [> Subject: Yes, indeed!
Author: dori [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 12:41:11 06/29/13 Sat We do need to keep those words--be careful of what you pray for--in mind, Hillbilly.