Prayer?

by Undecided 5 Replies latest jw friends

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  Undecided

  Hi All,

  Have you ever thought of this, if God listened to the prayers of all the millions of people praying at any one time, with the different languages and request, how would he have time for anything else? Maybe he has a great computer in the sky that handles it all for him. Many prayers are only mental, is he pluged into the mind of all people or does he hear only verbal prayers? Maybe this is the reason so many prayers go unanswered, he just doesn't have time to walk about in the earth as he did in the Garden of Eden and talk to us as he did Adam and Eve, even after they sinned.

  Ken P.
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  abbagail

  Naaaaaa..... He knows the names of all the stars... how many zillions of stars are there? How many sparrows are on the planet? Yet he knows what each of them are doing, even when they fall to the ground. And as Jesus said further in that scripture, the Father knows every hair on every head of every human... Surely we have more hairs on our heads than we have thoughts in our brains at any given time.

  Therefore, I would have to say that I have no doubt Jehovah's brain can read everybody's mind at the same time, whether verbal thoughts or mental thoughts.

  Even if he WAS overwhelmed (which is impossible, since that is a human frailty), the scripture says the Holy Spirit can pick up on the "groanings unuttered" and plead for us. So, I guess if you wanna think Jah stops for a coffee break now and then, maybe he puts the Holy Spirit into high gear to take up the slack while He's taking a time-out. ;)

  GRITS

  Edited by - GRITS on 23 June 2002 23:42:7
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  Amazing

  Hee is how it works. First, Jehovah is an ORGANIZED god, therefore, since earthly completenes is in tens (10) ... then he assigned in an ORGANIZED way one Angel to hear out ten prayers. Of course the first NINE prayers are WORLDLY prayers and can be disgarded. THEN ...

  The JW prayers are sent to the next ANGEL LEVEL in an organized way ... and PRIORITZED ... in ten (10) complete ORGANIZED levels ... with numbers 2 through 9 being discarded as unanswerable ... the remaining prayers are sent to the next ARCH ANGEL LEVEL ... any prayers that are not in some way for the ORGANIZATION are discarded as selfish, possible requiring Judicial Discipline and loss of HOLY SPIRIT ... then ...

  The remaining prayers are passed by the COMMITTE OF THREE JUDGES ... KNORR, RUTHERFORD, RUSSELL ... and deemed ORGANIZATIONALLY WORTHY of being passed on to Jesus Christ ... 99% of these are discarded as not as important to the forward moving progressive ORGANIZATON as the others ... and then sent along to Jesus ...

  Jesus ... has no real ORGANIZATIONAL power, and simply carried the ORGANIZATIONAL prayers to JEHOVAH ... then ...

  JEHOVAH opens the secret envelope and finds only ONE PRAYER ... the ORGANIZATIONALLY RECOMMENDED PRAYER - the MODEL that Jesus said 2000 years ago ... and he saw it was good and blessed it ... for it spoke of the KINGDOM, and VINDICATING HIS NAME, and all those BIG IMPORTANT ORGANIZATIONAL THINGS ... but ... long ago lost in the paper shuffle of prayers are those of ...

  the JW CHILDREN who are VICTIMS OF MOLESTATION ... THE PRAYER of JW women raped ... THE WORRY OF JW PARENTS TRYING TO FEED THEIR FAMILIES ... no, these are not ORGANIZED ... NOT IN THE INTERESTS OF THE ORGANIZATION.
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  Reborn2002

  LOL

  Amazing made a funny.

  The sad part is it is true though.

  PS - Is it just me, or is the active topic notification screwed up?

  Edited by - Reborn2002 on 24 June 2002 1:0:52
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  Undecided

  Amazing,

  I think you solved the riddle. You may have to copyright it to keep the borg from stealing it.

  Ken P.
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  RunningMan

  Last night, my family was having supper outside on the deck. My wife suggested that we have a prayer for a change. So, I mumbled through the usual - it's tough to give a sincere prayer when you're an atheist.

  About half way through the meal, we were interrupted by a torrential downpour. I guess He was not amused.