Today,
reply topics include authority, natural disaster, divine power,
prayer, and the will of GOD. Few divine objectives are accomplished
simply by believers expressing accord, agreement, and unity among
themselves. Neither the will of a full congregation nor that of the
full church are sufficient to alter or overturn the unchanging will
of GOD. The fighter in the “Yahoo! Answers” Religion and
Spirituality forum who uses the ID “Matt85” (Level 4 with 4,274
points, a member since September 18, 2016) posted the following:
Will
someone agree with me to pray this hurricane won't reach land?
Jesus
said: "Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree
about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in
heaven."
So
please agree with me.
Update:
With the majority of your attitudes, you will never get round to
agreeing for something. Agreeing means you really need to agree. To
united in will. Yes an entire church of people can miss the point.
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where
they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy
Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness. And the
multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul:
neither said any of them
that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had
all things common. And with great power gave the apostles witness of
the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them
all. (Acts 4: 31-33, King James Version, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: The Gift(s) From
GOD (04/08/2018); As An Anointed Body (10/04/2017); Storms to Punish
America? (09/08/2017); From Dust Thou Art (09/07/2017); Existence,
Mortality and GOD? (08/31/2017); Unless You Repent (03/05/2013); The
Childhood of Jesus? (03/06/2013)
“Matt85”,
as you know, prayer is not intended to manipulate, pressure GOD to
make changes, or subordinate divinity; and the primary revelation by
the Son of GOD has been so that mankind will acknowledge and extol
the Father. Even so, in their beginnings and while they are
developing, Christian believers often focus on the material, natural,
and social world. In those stages of edification and growth, they
also repeatedly dismiss the arguments from Scripture that the proper
focus of mankind as the new creation of Jesus Christ is the
eternal purpose, substance, and sacred operation of divinity, rather
than our ongoing human infirmity.
Consistent
with the truth that divine fullness (we say, the GODhead; the Father,
the Son, the Holy Spirit) contains all the inseparable aspects of
spirit substance that will ever exist, becoming “born again” and
the transformations of mankind through baptism, resurrection and the
Second Coming (we also say, his appearing; the Advent; the harvest;
the Rapture) must impart such features as faith, forbearance,
holiness, longsuffering, lovingkindness, oneness without
sameness, righteousness, wisdom, and wrath against sin.
Christians are encouraged to gather and ask for such spirit matter
from the makeup of GOD; however, believers are not instructed to ask
for anything and everything human appetite, consciousness, and
self-will may fix on through desire, or for interruptions of earthly
events and operations,
Many
things in human experience are not designed, or intended to endure as
expressions of divine will, and may only proceed or respond to
mechanical sequences and natural laws. Thus the prayer for inner
peace during a hurricane and the time of recovery to follow can be
more appropriate than the prayer to stop, or turn the wind away. Our
expectation (we say, hope) is most godly where we seek the
application of spirit substance to accomplish change in aspects of
sacred order that are not immutable and unchanging. Consider again
the following that uses language from the Bible:
(1.)
Romans 8: 5-9, King James Version (KJV): 5 For they that are after
the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after
the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is
death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not
subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8 So then they
that are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 But ye are not in the
flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in
you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
(2.)
Philippians 2: 2, KJV: 2 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like-minded,
having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
(3.)
Romans 8: 27-29, KJV: 27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth
what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession
for the saints according to the will of God. 28 And we know
that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them
who are the called according to his purpose. 29 For whom he
did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the
image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, 1st John 5: 13-15, KJV: 13 These things
have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God;
that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe
on the name of the Son of God. 14 And this is the confidence that we
have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he
heareth us: 15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we
know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.) Even so, I
trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your
faith.
THE
BLACK PHOENIX
Washington,
DC
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