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Yk I’ve been thanking him and asking for things but nothing ever happen. I wonder if he actually hears me or not
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Countless Christians rely on their intellect and reasoning when they pray, and many pray through emotion. Such prayer is what the Bible calls prayer of the flesh. In other words, true prayer is done with the heart—with sincerity, with one’s character and inner being fully engaged.
A lifetime of praying with emotion and thought alone is nothing more than the prayer of ignorance, for such people do not even know what it means to pray according to the conscience, the spirit’s nature. The outcome of prayer differs completely depending on what one believes for and what one seeks.
The prayers offered by Christians who spend their entire lives asking only for worldly concerns—family problems, business problems, children, relationships, work, health—seeking only their own blessing, happiness, success, ideals, and prosperity, never contain the beautiful prayer that follows the holy will of God and the love of Christ. And prayer is never something done merely by form or intellect.
A prayer offered with the resolve to give even one’s own life—with desperation and earnestness—is a true Christian’s prayer that cannot exist in those who have not received God’s beautiful love. The faith of most Christians today, who seek only their own worldly happiness, blessing, success, and prosperity, can never break free from the evil habits and limits of humanity that cause them to repeat sin throughout their entire lives.
A fleshly faith that repeats sin produces only prayers of emotion—outwardly beautiful but empty. Such people can never pray with the tears of Christ’s love, tears that share in the pain, sorrow, suffering, and anguish of others. This is the true prayer of a true Christian, and it is something they cannot do.
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.(1 John 2 : 15~16)
A prayer that does not possess the love of God is nothing more than a vain prayer that seeks only the worries of this world and the desires of the flesh.
All who pray with the mind, intellect, emotion, or personal will are transformed into a shameless faith that feels no guilt of conscience, because such prayer springs from a fleshly faith driven by lust—seeking only one’s own blessing, ideals, and success. As a result, they inevitably repeat sin, having turned their own desires and willpower into ‘faith,’ and thus remain bound to a faith that serves only the flesh.
A lifetime of emotional, thought-based belief causes the conscience—the spirit—to slowly die, for God’s love cannot exist within such a faith. Prayer that is not empowered by the love of God is not the prayer of love but a prayer offered for oneself in the world and the flesh; it is a prayer that betrays God’s holy will and cannot bear the fruit or evidence of Christ. Most such prayers are vain and godless.
The purpose of prayer is that, by pursuing the love of God, we may be led to form His divine nature within us and become children of His love.
Prayer is determined entirely by what we believe for. A prayer born of the world and the flesh can never become the beautiful prayer that follows God’s will. But the true Christian who lives with the hope of Christ, pursuing the love of God, seeks the beautiful Christian prayer that carries the tears, pain, and sorrow of many brothers and sisters.