Science has recently done a report about people being prayed for, those who were not prayed for. It seems that people who were prayed for did worst than the others.  Has God forgotten us?  The second question comes from personal experience and worldly events.
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The prayer's so powerful. You just have to have faith when you pray. Our prayer's always heard by God. He never forgotten nor ignore us. Things just don't happen right away. God let things to happen according to His plans and not according to our own will. Sometimes, you'll be surprised cuz He'll give you better and bigger than what you've asked for.
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What you say just isn't true for many people.  People don't refuse faith; faith just doesn't exist for many people, especially thoughtful, rational-type people.  And you already know that it's not true that God always gives when asked; lots of times He doesn't.\n\nRE: Your Email (Yahoo wouln't let me respond directly):\n\nThanks Jenny.  I've read lots of the Bible growing up.  I have not decided "he doesn't exist."  But if He exists, he has not given me Faith.  To the contrary, He has given me a brain and a heart that do not lead me to Faith, even reading the Bible.  Who knows why, but that's the situation.  I can act like I have Faith, I can pretend I have Faith, but it would be a lie, and I can't just manufacture real Faith.  I'm sure it's very comforting to have Faith (regardless of whether it's well placed).
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We prayed for bunkbeds.  We had no money and lots of kids in our small house.  The next day someone asked us if we wanted their old bunk beds.\n\nGod didn't always answer our prayers like that...but when we were very poor...He often worked like that with us.
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That's because the religion you're referring to that does this is Christianity, and yes I believe God is being forgotten in Christianity. If you break down the word- Christ- you see that its more like worshipping Jesus the Christ who Christians believe is the Messiah. \n\nThere are other religions that actually just focus on God: Islam and Judaism. They have not forgotten Him.
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i was reading some of the put downs, doesnt any one have any faith or even common sense. god talks to each and every one of us. its the voice in your head telling you to do something or not to do something its the guilt you feel when you have done something wrong. who are we to say god did not speak to him. the bible says judge ye not! and it also tells us to have faith.who are we to decide who god can and can not talk to. would you believe him if he said satan talked too him?
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well, all those news are so terrible, I can't imagine, I really have to pray for people who are persecuted, even we christians are not aware of what our brothers and sisters have to go through in other countries, so I think we should be more aware and start praying for them. As for unbelievers I don't think they would be in the least concerened and if there were people who were really concerned they would not do such brutal things as said in those artilces, I am really shocked!!
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Dear God, I pray that the unbelievers and friends around each of us might be touched by your spirit and brought to repentance and that we will be able to yield ourself to fulfill your will and to be a guiding light for our friends and close ones. I also pray that our hearts may be burdened to pray for them and that you will give us an opportunity to share the good news with them to your glory. In Jesus name we pray! Amen!!
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I have all but quit going to church.  People have made me quit going not God.  I thank God daily for all the things he has given me and pray.  I still believe in the power of prayer.  People have just made me stop going.   Sometimes I find the most hateful mean people are the ones at church.  But, there are those people at church who are really good decent people but the mean ones are the ones who drive others away.
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man, i feel bad for you. you're playing on the wrong team. God is so real. it seems like everyday he's proving himself (to me anyway). i mean there are times i look back and it could have only been God that got me through. God gives me peace, protection, and he is a great provider. My first year in college I didn't have a job or a dime to my name, but God made a way for me. He made is so that I was never hungry, and that I never wanted for anything. to you God might be an "invisible friend" but for me he is my best friend. the bible is a guide that tells us how to live. and if people live right they dont have to fear God. he gave his only son for us, do you really think that he wants to destroy us? to cripple us with fear? No, thats not him, he is loving. I'm sorry if you feel that God has failed you, or that he's not real, because you're missing out.
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I feel that prayer is a personal experience of talking to God and just like talking to anyone who you want to have a relationship with you have to relate to them. So if you talk to God he talks to you. He sometimes talks whether you speak to him or not and just like anyone else who is speaking to you if you don't listen or take notice you wont know what's said. Just keep doing it and keep on knowing that God hears and be ready for his answers 'cause they come - in most surprising ways sometimes
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Or what about the tribes in South America who haven't had contact with any outsider. They've never even heard of Jesus. What about them? Are they going to hell? Probably not. That's not really fair is it? Plus, isn't God is all-forgiving and all-loving and all that jazz? Why would he punish the innocent?
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There's your answer right there. There is hope. Even after everything God still heard you and answered your prayer. He never lets us go and never forgets us, even we have been the most low down and dirtiest people. That's why he is so great. A lot of people don't ever get to really understand that, but tonight I think you did.
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If they pray for you then good for them....\nIF it some how does something good for you well good for you....don't look a gift horse in the mouth.\n\nThe thing is prayers are cheap and have no proven effect....actions speak louder than words...I believe the world would be a better place if people spent there time doing good for people instead of all that praying....Good deeds have  results....Prayer ...Well the results of prayer are debatable
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We, in spite our of best efforts, cannot keep God out of anywhere... God is everywhere.  Families are primarily responsible for teaching faith, hope, love and peace ... not schools.  Where was God when those children died?  Holding their hands and crying with them and all the parents over the hardness of our hearts toward one another .. all insisting that our God (or violence, or money,or...) is the RIGHT and ONLY way.
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How do we know that "answered prayers" are illusions? We simply perform scientific experiments. We ask a group of believers to pray for something and then we watch what happens. What we find, whenever we test the efficacy of prayer scientifically, is that prayer has zero effect: \n\nIt does not matter who prays. \nIt does not matter if we pray to God, Allah, Vishnu, Zeus, Ra or any other human god. \nIt does not matter what we pray about. \nIf we perform scientific, double-blind tests on prayer, and if the prayers involve something concrete and measurable (for example, healing people with cancer), we know that there is zero effect from prayer. Every single "answered prayer" is nothing more than a coincidence. Both scientific experiments and your everyday observations of the world show this to be the case every single time.\n\nDon't hold your breath on Iraq.
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I think that we all struggle in our faith one way or another. Questioning God's existence doesn't really cross most of our minds. We may question why He allows things to happen or we may even question our own Christian walk and our relationship with God. My pastors -and I've had a few in my life -haven't been perfect. In fact there was one who was my Dad's boss that treated his underlings shabbily and used the church vehicle for personal business. I think he may've even taken some of the better donations given to the church for his own. I do know that he was eventually caught by his bosses with his hand in the cookie jar and in adultery. He was speedily fired. As for weird things in a worship service? I recall visiting a Charismatic service to see what it was like. I met one of those pastors who held rather rambunctious healing services. You know the type.; they call you forward for healing even though you haven't volunteered or asked for it. He claimed -a few times- to be given a word of knowledge about some type of secret sin in some person's life. I found this made me extremely uncomfortable because I do not believe that God would humiliate an individual in this manner. Nor do I think that Jesus would compel anyone to come for healing. God is a Gentleman, and He never forces Himself on anybody. Neither should His servants
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First of all, praying for healing is not going against God's will.  People asked Jesus to heal them, and He did.\n\nGod heals some...and for reasons we don't understand, there are those who pray for healing and are not healed.\n\nSince prayer is encouraged in the bible, and we are taught to "pray without ceasing"....it is IN His will that we pray to Him.  The results of our prayers are up to God...this is how we learn, when things "go our way", or when they "don't go our way"....we need to praise Him, no matter what the outcome.  Because He is perfect, holy, righteous, merciful, forgiving, just.\n\nJob was our perfect example.  The Lord giveth, the Lord taketh away, blessed be the name of the Lord.  When our prayers are answered (in the way we want) or when they are not answered in the way we want.....He is worthy of our praise.