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R.A. Torrey lamented the average believer’s indifference to prayer by writing:
How little time the average Christian spends in prayer! We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we carry out little…the power of God is lacking in our lives and in our work. We have not because we ask not.
Samuel Chadwick writes:
The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but he trembles when we pray.
We are told to have confidence when we come to God in prayer, knowing He hears us and will grant whatever we ask if it is in His will. According to these and many other Scriptures, God answers prayer requests based on whether they are asked according to His will and in the name of Jesus (to bring glory to Jesus).
- John 14:13–14 — “Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. “If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.
- John 15:16 — “You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.”
- John 16:23–24 — “In that day you will not question Me about anything. Truly, truly, I say to you, if you ask the Father for anything in My name, He will give it to you. Until now you have asked for nothing in My name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be made full.”
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Our relationship with the Lord is our greatest strength and we build that relationship through prayer. Thanks for blessing us with today’s post!
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Good reminder: we have not because we ask not.
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Monotheism violates the 2nd Sinai commandment. Many Jews have erred on this concept of faith. The Koran failed to understand the concept of ברית. A fundamental term contained as a רמז within the first word of the Torah בראשית.
Mohammad too failed to discern that the Torah defines a prophet, as a person who commands mussar. Another fundamental mistake on par with Arabs eating camel meat and milk; or their customs of ritual slaughter. The Koran like the New Testament, both alien texts failed to grasp the essential concept of tohor/tumah which defines the chosen Cohen nation – the Jewish people – our avodat השם; the 1st Sinai commandment defines the k’vanna of all Torah commandments: doing these commandments לשמה.
G’lut Jewry, as taught in the opening Mishna of Gittin, the דיוק (logical inference/opposite [Ying/Yang]) of Kiddushin, that G’lut Jewry lost the wisdom just how to keep Torah commandments לשמה – hence the din of g’lut. Antisemitism, a term originally coined in the late 19th Century expressed Goyim opposition to Jews receiving citizenship into the host countries of their exile. Hitler’s Nazism redefined the term antisemitism into a totally different butterfly.
Throughout the Judean g’lut, Jews existed as stateless refugee populations, scattered across the Middle East, North Africa and Western Europe. We as a people had no political or social rights, and experience G-d damned horrific nightmares of oppression. Liberal, Reform and Conservative, the latter also referred to as Historical Judaism, both movements, express the post Napoleonic liberation from the Ghettoes, attempts by Jews to receive citizenship within Goyim countries. Something like a dog who whines and wags its tail when a person eats meat that smells absolutely delicious to the nose of the dog. A replacement theology which “converts” the worship of Self-Interests as the new-God of the Jews.
This ideal, it worships the God of Jewish self-interests, acceptance and integration into non-Jewish societies. Israeli Jews understand the k’vanna of the 2nd Sinai Commandment, not to worship other Gods: A) Proof that the Torah rejects Monotheism B) Not to assimilate, meaning a negative commandment that prohibits the pursuit of alien non-brit cultures, customs, and practices of Goyim civilizations who reject the revelation of the Name of השם @ Sinai & Horev. The YouTube below, the narrator clearly does not qualify as a Torah observant Israeli Jew.
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Thank you for the reminder on the danger of prayerlessness brother.
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Two great quotes on danger of not praying
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