Unspoken Prayers

You mean you can't pray in faith "God please bless (whoever) in whatever trial they are going through and may your will be done in their life."???

I guess I'm a terrible sinner because I silently ask God to bless (or pray for) people I pass on the street and I have no idea what is going on in their lives...

 

ACtually, I do this to, being led by God to do it. I will not assess that I ama sinner for doing this, especially since God lays it on my heart to do so.

 

FreeatLast,

what leads you to believe that 'understanding' equals 'faith'?

at least it seems to me from reading some of your posts that you are saying one cannot have faith unless one understands.....how much of it do you have to understand then? And aren't you placing an awful lot of power (for lack of a better word) on the pray-er rather than placing it on the One to Whom we pray?

What if I *think* I have a tumor, so I pray to God asking Him to heal me but it turns out it's not a tumor? it's something totally different - because I am not praying in full understanding of the truth does that mean God is hindered in answering according to His will?

I can come to God 'in faith' without knowing any of the details of that person's case. I often will word my prayer along the lines of 'work in this person's life', 'help them with their situation', 'please let them know you are near' - I don't need to instruct God in how He ought to solve anything for someone else. God will do what He wills - my faith comes in knowing that God's will is best no matter what the answer. I believe this is the true understanding of the passage you keep citing in this thread. We are to come to God in faith - faith that God will do what is best, faith to accept the answer we receive, even when we don't like it, and the faith to believe that even if we don't know the answer God does know it....and God has everything under control.

 

When I ask for unspoken prayers, it is always in regards to my husband/marriage. There are things that simply do not need aired that need prayer. What better way to pray than for Gods will to be done in that situation?? I am 100% ok with that. I do not feel as a wife, it is respectful to my husband to go into details about his sins 1. while he isnt there, but 2. in front of a crowd of people who do not know him. Asking for an unspoken prayer request is the safest way to let people know there is a request, but it would not be appropriate to share it with people. Either God is all knowing or he isnt. If I ask for unspoken he knows what is in my heart and why I am asking. He would also know if you prayed what it would be about. Therefore it is not empty. I think God is God enough to keep track.

 

You are absolutely correct. After reading all the views on this subject, I agree that some things are best unspoken. I apologize if I have offended anyone. I pray that God will keep me teachable and I admit I haved learned some things in this thread. I will view unspoken prayer requests with respect and continue to pray for anyone who asks for it.

 

Thank you for clarifying that. It makes much more sense now. (The thread title seemed to suggest that unspoken prayers were sinful.) Personally, I have never encountered unspoken prayer requests.

 

I go back to my original point that God knows what you are praying for. I believe when you pray God knows what the situation is. He *IS* God afterall. I still have no idea where you get the idea that God doesnt hear unspoken requests, and especially how praying Gods will be done is not praying in faith. I pray Gods will be done because I dont know the perfect outcome to this situation. I am not going to tell God how to solve it or what to do. Therefore I am praying Gods will be done. Until I see a scripture verse stating that praying that way is wrong then I am sorry I just dont believe your point. If praying for Gods will is wrong, explain this verse. 1 John 5:14 - And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us

Im just speechless that you can say praying for Gods will isnt faith. Isnt faiths definition basically "a strong belief"? If I pray Gods will I believe God knows what is best, God knows the answer and I trust him to take care of it. Im sorry, I am just really really stunned that you can say "asking for his will is sin". Where is your scripture to back that up? Im sorry but you saying it is just isnt enough.

 

Yes! Jesus told us how to pray...

Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name.
Thy Kingdom come,
thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory. for ever and ever. Amen

Did He have a lack of faith too?

It would be nicer if you stated in your posts, "in my opinion" such and such is sin, instead of stating it as a fact.

Because, after all, that is what it is...your opinion...and not everyone agrees with you.

 

You have been told not to call anyone a liar and to abide by the rules.

You chose to ignore the first warning. This will be your last warning.

If you continue, you will be banned by the Adminitrative Council.

I am not asking you this time. I am telling you.

 

Who made you the authority on sin?

 

Mt 6:8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. (KJV)

According to Jesus, there is no such thing as an unspoken prayer request. God already knows what we need even before we ask.

As we pray for our family members, Missionaries, preacher friends, etc, we don't know their specific needs many times. We simply ask God to meet their needs. It is the same when a church members asks the congregation to pray for them in a "unspoken" area.

 

This is part of what freeatlast wrote in a thread called "What they stand for", which is found here and is what Magnetic Poles linked to earlier in this thread.

freeatlast, how is it that you say the above, and then say this?

Does this mean that you have no problem if somebody else wants to kill homosexuals?

Are you complaining that the so-called "lie" that has been spoken is that you haven't actually wrote the words "I want to kill homosexuals"? Because you don't have to write the exact words for your meaning to be clear. From what I read, you would have no problem if homosexuals were killed for being homosexual.

 

This whole post just seems like an attempt to cause problems.

Its such a strange thing to pick on.

 

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