Who do you "pray" to?

I pray to god and I have to say that I don't just believe, I know he answers my prayer. I have on two occasions, had trouble first with terrible nightmares which had me scared to go to sleep and praying made them vanish. The second time was what the hymn writer John Newton described as "inward trials" I asked for two weeks peace and quiet and got exactly that, peace so perfect it felt like being transported to another world. Anyone who has read and understood John Bunyans book "Grace abounding to the chief of sinners" will know what inward trials are.

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Originally Posted by LX_Emergency

Fixed that for ya.

Really shouldn't talk in absolutes about something that can be neither proven nor disproven at this time.

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ALL studies show that praying makes no difference to the outcome of whatever is being prayed for whatsoever although it may make you feel better to do so anyway. Since I feel better about doing something concrete to achieve results, prayer is a misdirected action. End stop.

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Originally Posted by xman

ALL studies show that praying makes no difference to the outcome of whatever is being prayed for whatsoever

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I just studied my own life and came to the conclusion that praying does make a difference

You can add that one to the previously empty column of your prayer studies results list :mexwave:

All studied by mortal man.

My inward trials could not possibly have been relieved by me or anyone else.

I pray to the great hoglahoo

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Originally Posted by hoglahoo

I just studied my own life and came to the conclusion that praying does make a difference

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Sorry, my bad ... all reputable studies ;)

I don't pray as often as I should.


I'm with Hoglahoo- Prayer has had a definite difference in my life.

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Originally Posted by Slartibartfast

I pray to the great hoglahoo

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As you should.;)

I don't believe I pray in the ordinary sense, as in I don't request help ( rarely request help ) But I thank God for what I have and what he has shown me and where he has led me.
I guess you can say I don't ask, rather I wait to be shown.

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Originally Posted by JMS

I guess you can say I don't ask, rather I wait to be shown.

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you should ask me more often, i sometimes forget to show you.