Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Stalking God

I just don't get prayer. I never did. Even as a child I found it a bit odd that an omniscient god would need me to tell him anything. Shouldn't he know what I need or want? Shouldn't he know who's in trouble and who needs help? It's really quite illogical. Congratulatory prayer is bizarre, as well. Why does an omnipotent being need anyone to tell him how great he is? I mean, I need people to occasionally say nice things to me, but that's because I'm human and I get a little down sometimes. God should not be having the same problem.

Anyway, I don't think even fundys really understand prayer.

When we pray I know we are suppose to pray with out ceasing, keeping knocking. Pray of course God's will be done. Praying until you receive some kind of a breakthrough or/and answer.

I have also heard some people say they pray once and leave it at God's feet and leave it at that. That once you have said the prayer God knows and in his timing the answer will come. I have heard that some people will write down the prayer on paper, say a prayer, then but it in a box and when they receive an answer they take that prayer paper out because it was answered.

I believe we are suppose to be consistent with our prayers, keeping asking (within HIS will, not ours). To be in constant prayer and thanksgiviing and praise.

What do you believe, keeping praying until breakthrough or one time prayer and leave it at God's feet.

That was just a whole mess of crazy right there. Omnipotent god doesn't hear you unless you constantly repeat yourself? Now I'm starting to think that hurricanes and earthquakes are caused by prayer, because if somebody were doing that to me, I would lose my shit right quick.

Well, it depends on the issue.

I pray for the unsaved every day, and I will not stop.

If I lose something, I might ask God to help me find it, and then leave it at that. I think some things bear repeating, like asking God to protect evangelists and open the hearts of the unsaved, but some don't. It just depends on the issue.

I had a very old cat. He was diabetic. I told God I was worried he would slowly decline and I wouldn't know when to make the choice. I just asked once. God heard me and set it up, when it was his time, to make it a very easy choice.

Oh, for crying out loud. How many millions of children are sold into sexual slavery every day, but god helped this woman out with her diabetic cat? Can we say "self absorbed"?

GOD WANTS US TO STALK HIM.

Nothing makes Him happier than us yakking away at him, all day long.

. . . stalking [is] "the wilful, malicious and repeated following or harassing of another person that threatens his or her safety". Typical stalking behaviour includes the intrusive following of a ‘target’, for example, by placing one’s self in front of the target’s home. Stalkers most often persecute their targets by unwanted communications, like frequent telephone calls, letters, e-mail, graffiti, notes or packages.

Ignoring whether or not you could do that to god, um, I don't think one should be malicious and threatening towards an omnipotent being. That hardly seems safe.

It's funny cuz I was just reading 1 Kings and something that jumped out at me was when Elijah warned King Ahab that rain was coming. When Elijah told him this he then went alone to pray. He would pray for rain, then ask his assistant to look out over the ocean and tell him what he saw. 6 times the assistant came back to Elijah telling him that he saw nothing but on the 7th time he saw a small cloud coming up over the sea.

I read this particular story and saw that even Elijah, a well respected prophet had to ask the LORD 7 times to produce rain. The impression I got from this story was that GOD wants us to always be consistant with our petitions to him.

So, yeah, it's totally inexplicable that after praying for a long period of time, a single raincloud appeared. Because it never rains anywhere.

6 comments:

  1. My eyes played a trick on me and at first instead of "1 Kings" (in the last quote you pull) I saw "Klingons."

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  2. That Elijah story is also riddled with Hebrew Numerology. 7 is the number of completion or wholeness, excluding 3, it is the number used to represent God the most.

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  4. Ah I see you've been Markuzed. Tough luck.

    When I was a believer I used to pray constantly. Actually it was just a running dialog with my invisible friend.
    It was very comforting.
    It was a very hard habit to break.

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  5. Prayer: just another way in which the assertion of omnipotence and omniscience causes trouble for Christian doctrine.

    @cs - it's a verb, now?

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  6. Michael - yes, alternatively conjugated as "marbuzed"

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