Prayer is an attempt to let God change our mind
Kishore Shintre
#newdaynewchapter is a Blog narrative started on March 1, 2021 co-founded by Kishore Shintre & Sonia Bedi, to write a new chapter everyday for making "Life" and not just making a "living"
"Texas Bar Sues Church" a headline in local newspapers in America. In a small Texas town (Mt. Vernon), Drummond’s Bar began construction on a new building to increase their business. The local Baptist church started a campaign to block the bar from opening with petitions and prayers. Work progressed right up till the week before opening when lightning struck the bar and it burned to the ground. The church folks were rather smug in their outlook after that, until the bar owner sued the church on the grounds that the church was ultimately responsible for the demise of his building, either through direct or indirect actions or means. The church vehemently denied all responsibility or any connection to the building’s demise in its reply to the court.
As the case made its way into court, the judge looked over the paperwork. At the hearing he commented, “I don’t know how I’m going to decide this case. It appears that we have a bar owner who believes in the power of prayer, and an entire church congregation that does not.” I was talking a friend of mine who is an atheist. He said "Although I’m not a believer, it does occur to me that God may be answering your prayers just fine." You may not like the answer you are getting. Often, prayers are of the “gimme” nature. “Oh, God, please make sure I get a good score on the test tomorrow, even though I’ve neglected studying all semester!” “Oh, Lord, bring me the hot mate of my sexual fantasies, even though I’ve done nothing to become socially adept or tend to my personal hygiene!” God just might be answering prayers like this, “No, buddy, you have some work to do.”
Smilingly he continued "Simple. Show me the evidence. Not “evidence” in a book written by misogynistic men who didn’t understand where the sun went at night. Don’t tell me about random miracles, when the majority of prayers by the faithful go unanswered every single day. Don’t tell me what you believe in your heart. I can’t verify that. Show me concrete, current, verifiable evidence, and I will instantly believe. That’s not a very tall order.
Of course not, God is eternal and cannot change. Our prayers are to align our wills with His! Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name, Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Gives us this day our daily bread, And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from Evil. Amen. The entire Christian life is for us to change, for us to deny ourselves, and do His Will: Matthew 16:24 Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA)
If you are trying to change God’s mind, please stop, as you are just wasting your time and throwing away your salvation with both hands. Telling God what you want to do is known as Protestantism, not Christianity. We should understand, “ who are we, why are we here and what could be done in this situation …” God's word : Eternal life is waiting for you, no death is there. Your home are lonely without you. Your friends are waiting for you. Because you were living there with Supreme God - the creator of all the souls.
Because of our own mistake we came in this mortal place. This place is like jail for all the soul and when Savior would come here, he shows the true way of Worship. Listen god loving souls ! Savior has came in India and revealed the true spiritual knowledge from our holy scriptures. Now all the souls specially which are in human body have chance to know the true spiritual knowledge and do Worship accordingly keeping devotion boundaries. O souls ! Come to school. Learn sacred knowledge, i.e. true way of worship which was kept hidden till this time. Coming to current practices in society. See .. what I want to say is our efforts are not enough. Would only prayers take us to the eternal place of Supreme God ? No … ! Listen, this is the bitter reality. Prayers are like glucose, but not enough to cure your disease of birth-death cycle. Not enough powerful to take you Supreme god's eternal place.
Once again saying … Savior has came in India with the complete way of worship according to our scriptures. He is struggling for all mankind as he said before. His small soldiers (devotees) are trying to spread his message to whole world. All the souls are our brothers and sisters. And Savior has came to give that sacred spiritual knowledge after knowing about it, you would be intended to go supreme God's place. Your desires which are connecting you to this mortal place will be changed drastically. This message is to intimate all the souls that Savior has came as per his promise. Savior has came with amazing powers to heal you and take with him to eternal place so that you can see eternal life .... ! Condition is that we must be ready to leave the old and arbitrary way of Worship. And try to understand the sacred knowledge. Cheers1
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