Saturday, 07 November 2009
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Prayer Destroys Enemies
My friend ShamelesslyRed posted this video today. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9uVBeNCbc4&feature=player_embedded)
Whenever Christian nonviolence is talked about and people bring up the question of "What do you do if..." in order to find practical steps to apply nonviolence I aim to always say that prayer should lead the way. I've encountered so many stories in which people prayed and something miraculous just seemed to happen. Whether it be silent or out loud, the God Who Saves hears the cry of his people and answers with deliverance.
I worked with a man named Kurt while on the streets of Atlanta. He had a few handfuls of stories like this. Men trying to shoot him but their gun jams or every bullet form a shotgun somehow misses him (I've seen the outline on the building) because he prayed. My favorite story is when there was a bounty on his head and a guy came up with a gun to shoot him and as Kurt prayed the handle on the gun became orange like the top of a stove and it burned the mans hand so bad he couldn't hold it anymore. He dropped it and ran off. Kurt waited for a bit and then picked up the gun and took it home. He still has it. The man later found Kurt and showed him a tattoo he got on his hand of a gun handle to remind him of when the God Who Saves intervened to stop him from killing one of His children.
No matter the tactic, prayer should always be the first step because it is the greatest of weapons.Have you seen prayer destroy your enemies?
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Amen bro.
I've seen prayer do greater things than to destroy my enemies... it has reconciled some of them to me as my brother in Christ!
Wow Travis my brother, that is amazing. I just really wish God could work through me like He did Kurt.
does that mean that anything that occurs in conjunction with prayer is the result of God's intervention? if i pray for my neighbor to die and he does, does that mean God did it?
Christians seem very quick to credit God with all the good random events in life, but never have explanations for the bad.
@too_pretty_to_die@xanga - "does that mean that anything that occurs in conjunction with prayer is the result of God's intervention?"
No. Our Father answers our prayers according to his will. God does not desire for your neighbor die (I'm assuming). That sort of prayer would be better presented before Satan. I think there are plenty of explanations for bad things in the world and random good things. Though, I wouldn't call it too outrageous to accredit many good things to our Father and many bad things to evil.
Might it not be better to say Prayer Destroys Enmity?
Excellent post bro. I've heard it said that prayer moves mountains. Some people take that to mean literally and therefore scoff at the idea but really prayer moves the mountains that stand in our way as obstacles to better our lives or divide us from one another.
@TheGreatBout@xanga - your reply about prayer to Satan...
Satan can't do anything without God's allowance (if I understand Job rightly, or maybe that's only for believers, I think it's the whole wide run of creation.) So praying to Satan is not only wrong for believers (and unbelievers, but more understandable), but doesn't matter if God isn't willing to allow such an act in the first place.
@too_pretty_to_die@xanga - I credit evil and damaging acts to the effects of sin. God allows the effects of sin to harm his children in the short term to grow us in character and faith and to draw us closer to him. God allows the effects of sin in the world to punish sin. The effects of sin are also used to encourage sinners to repentance.
Now, to the main post:
KUDOS! This is exactly what happened between myself and an ex-coworker:
I annoyed him greatly by being an outspoken Christian in the workplace. We had been decently positive co-workers, but he just got tired of my continuing Bible thumping, even after I quit dealing with him at his request. So he started threatening me, telling me he would catch me outside work and work me over. Sometime after he started this, insulting me, and getting increasingly vulgar, insulting my faith, I prayed.
Then I told him I was praying for him. Nothing else. No other communication from me.
And again... and so forth.
About 3 weeks later, it had been a week or so since I had last told him I was praying for him,
he asked me if I was still praying for him.
The last time I saw him, our cars passed on the street, and he waved and smiled at me.
Prayer heals hearts as well or better than bodies, and it doesn't do so bad there, either.
Pray for your leaders, pray for your friends, pray for the peace of Jerusalem (for they shall prosper that love thee *Jerusalem*), pray for workers to be set into the harvest, pray for your loved ones, pray for your neighbors, pray for anyone and anything that is important enough to you to be of some concern.
Pray with faith in God, and his power and willingness to do good to and for the benefit of his children.
Love,
@togodsownglory@xanga - I wasn't trying to imply Satan has power to answer prayers but that prayers for others to be killed are more aligned with with Satan and evil than with the Creator.