Does God Expect Me to Pray For Broccoli (standard:humor, 908 words)
Author: Godspenman	Added: Nov 02 2013	Views/Reads: 2660/1619	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
No prayer is worth praying if it is prayed outside of that righteous zone.

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always Frank. 

“Why won't you pray for my daughter,” demanded the woman. 

“Well,” Frank said, “tell me something.  Does she have any special
friend? Is she dating?” 

Frank later told me that many people want God to do everything for them.
“There is plenty for us to do,” he said with a mischievous grin. 

Of course, Frank firmly believed in prayer but he also believed people
have personal responsibility in their lives.  So many blame God for the 
bad in their life.  Then when they get in trouble, they want God to 
bail them out. One of Frank's favorite sayings was, “Many folk sow 
their wild oats Saturday night and then Sunday morning pray for crop 
failure.” 

Some things should not be a matter of prayer but of simple obedience.
Prayer is no substitute for action. In fact, in some cases it is not in 
order to pray. For example, it is wrong to pray about anything clearly 
forbidden in the Bible. I do not have to pray about hating somebody. It 
is always wrong to hate and no amount of prayer could ever change that 
fact. 

The apostle James set this forth rather clearly in his epistle. “Confess
your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be 
healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much” 
(James 5:16 KJV). 

No prayer is worth praying if it is prayed outside of that righteous
zone. 


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