by cab1000 29 Replies latest jw friends
One of my favorite sayings: Nothing fails like prayer.
I'm sitting here wondering why Jehover decided it was a good idea to help your friend with a business deal instead of causing food and fresh water to appear where people are staving to death. Maybe they forgot to pray?
I do believe in the power of prayer;
The middle eastern terrorists had their prayers answered and we saw the results: Almost perfect execution of a destructive attack against the US trade towers.
Then, (hang on to your hats now!) the US have their prayers answered, as we kicked some 'sand nigg*$@ a$$' and stuff a democratic election down their throats.
If that ain't powerful proof then WHAT IS?
NWT, your post was so good, I called my wife right away and read it to her, and we both were like...I KNOW!!!
Thanks!
~cab
I don't know why, but I kinda feel bad for people that don't believe in prayer.
When it comes to 'talking it over with with G Hoover', I think I'm just as well off talking to the cat or to the spirit of my dead dog.
My sentiments exactly Dan-O
I remember as a kid laying in bed late at night praying and crying myself to sleep, asking Joe Hoba to open my heart and help me to believe and to do the right things inorder to please Joe Hoba and my parents. I was always looking for a sign that he had heard me, but of course it never came, I felt so alone and unloved by god, he seemed to hear everyone elses prayers at the hall,so I felt that all my wickedness was just to much for the lord and he could not and would not hear me.
I now know better. If praying makes you feel better than by all means do it, but it's not for everyone. I still have my weak moments when I break down and pray during a crisis, but never ever for myself, only for others, it can be soothing somehow under great stress or fear.
DL76
Religion is the opiate of the masses- Karl Marx
i was reading a newspaper one day whilst at my parents house for tea around the time when i was really low and on the letters page they have a thought for the day..and this day it said
psalms 55 :22..throw your burden on the lord and he himself will sustain you
the comment said words to the effect of....when you are at your lowest, pray to god and he will help...he may not take the problem away but he will help you to cope
i read this to my folks who were excited that i had taken on board something positive...and they replied yes thats what you must do..pray and j. will help you to cope
i said ..i have a question
the writer of the daily comment...how does he know????
I believe in the power of the human mind.
DY
...don't know if this is of any interest or not but I had a friend who was always citing some scientific study somewhere that proved prayer helped people heal faster so I decided to go looking--this is what I found:Probing the power of prayer
Hold on... Not so fast....
Terry... Ahh Haa.....very good....
~cab
"O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle -- be Thou near them! With them -- in spirit -- we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe.
O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it -- for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet!We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts."
"Amen."
- Mark Twain
A reading from the Book of Armaments, Chapter 4, Verses 16 to 20:Then did he raise on high the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, saying, "Bless this, O Lord, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy."
And the people did rejoice and did feast upon the lambs and toads and tree-sloths and fruit-bats and orangutans and breakfast cereals ...
Now did the Lord say, "First thou pullest the Holy Pin. Then thou must count to three. Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the number of the counting, be reached, then lobbest thou the Holy Hand Grenade in the direction of thine foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it."
"Amen."
-- Monty Python
