Originally posted by Rajk999
There are a couple things you said that does not mesh with the Bible. But you do that often ie have beliefs which are unsurported .. So here they are :
1. There is such a thing as too much prayer. Bathing in it? Where you go that from?
[i]But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their ...[text shortened]... irit and they automatically are righteous, but the Bible does not seem to support that doctrine.
For someone who pushes that people don't need Jesus but just good works
to enter God's Kingdom I'd say having beliefs that do not mesh with the
Bible actually falls into your backyard.
With respect to prayer, you should read the Bible from cover to cover and
not settle on just a few verses you use to beat people up with. You will see
that we are called to prayer, and it should be a very important part of our
lives and there is not such a thing as to much prayer. I guess for someone
who avoids God's Spirit as you do, it may be the proper thing to do in your
eyes.
Here are a couple of verses:
1 Thessalonians 5:
16 Rejoice always, 17 pray continually, 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
The above verse we see that God wants to be praying all the time, with
the proper attitude regardless of what is going on in our lives.
Matthew 5:43-45New International Version (NIV)
Love for Enemies
43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
Here we see that God loves us and those that would be our enemy, that we
are to pray for those that would do us harm, again proper attitude and
how God wants us to live.
Matthew 6:6
But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
Here we see that God doesn't want to us make a big show of our spiritual
life, our works with God in prayer should no be for show, but a reality that
has nothing to do with others seeing us.
I've not said we should go to God with some repetition, you accuse me of
something that I've not at all called for. You take lessons from Satan, it
seems that most of your posts you read into something someone else says
you plug into it some wrong and spout off as if they actually said something
they did not.
Kelly