Understanding Prayer And The Non Believer

Faith in a "higher power" is often used as a crutch by many in times of struggle. However, when that crutch is removed, the hardships that need to be overcome seem to increase as hope diminishes. This is true

This picture shows a little girl praying to God. She is also closing her eyes, hoping God for answering her prayers. Hope is a feeling of trust or a feeling of a certain desire for things to happen. God would test you to determine if your hope is reliable and if you would keep the hope throughout your lifetime. Hope helps people to become stronger and it also shows respect to God because you know they are there with you and always be with you in your for the good and bad

In the dictionary hope is defined as ‘A feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen.’ In my own words hope is something everybody needs in order to pull through tough times, it’s something that is needed to survive. I believe that everybody has hope but not everyone can find it and sometimes it can be too late. To say we are never without hope would be true in the sense that everybody does have hope, whether that be unrevealed or exposed. Therefore it doesn’t always necessarily shine during the most difficult conflicts, leaving the prompt restricted. I know within myself that there were times where I almost gave up. My dad was rushed into surgery a year or so ago with a brain tumour, at first the haste of the situation didn’t give me any time to think. There was a high chance of losing him on the operating table and I felt as though I had lost all hope within myself. I knew that I had to find hope so I gave myself time to think, realising that my dad is the strongest person I know and he has never lost a fight in his life, so why would it happen now? I had found my hope in a time of conflict and it helped me get through. The question I continue to ask myself is ‘where would I be at this point in time if I didn’t discover that hope?’ I know of a girl who wasn’t as lucky as I was when it came to finding her inner hope. She lived alone with her single mother and her mother become very ill with cancer.

When we care about what God cares about, and when we trust Him enough to grieve over the suffering of God’s people, then faith should carry us forward into prayer. And faith should carry us forward into embodying the change we know that all of us need. Faith should carry us forward into a deeper love for God’s people…into God’s love for His own people. What will that look like in your life?

Hope is merely a component of faith. Hope is always about the future, faith is not. Hope and faith have different levels of certitude.

God has told us to be persistent in prayer, to be a watchman on the wall. “Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me” (Ezekiel 3:17,

Hope is an adequate substitute for belief. It might be even more sufficient to helping one’s psyche than belief. Hope takes so much more conscious effort that one tends to rely on that more than belief. There is already a degree of belief in hope.

But for argumentation praying can be used for other things too other than an emotional state other than hope. Prayer could be used to say you pray to be financially stable in your life. Like if your in debt or times are extremely tough with paying for rent you can hold on to prayer and pray that some things pull through as in you pray that something positive will happen. A perfect example for prayer when you see a homeless person who are on the streets who have nothing for themselves so they hold on to prayer. A quick story to get a better understanding of this word is a customer once walked into McDonald's and asked for a sandwich and was denied because did not have enough money so another customer who overheard him get denied ordered him an entire meal and give him the change of $20.The kind man said “God bless you I PRAY all will be well with you.” And the homeless man replied “Prayer is all I have thank you good sir” with a smile on his face. Having a

While attending Korean reformed church, I could redefine Christian worldview based on the Bible; through this work, I saw the diversity of truth because the truth could apply everything, but one of the most significant understand would be knowing the worth of prayer. Through praying, I could confess my sin honestly, and could find my sinful nature again. The reason is that I had been trembling because of the punishment of God, so I repented my sin, but the problem was that I prayed for myself not for God even while I was confessing my sin. Nevertheless, God did not let me perish; let me understood this limitation of sinful man, and let me spiritually communicate with Him as praying. Therefore, personally, the prayer always makes me remind

What are you praying for? What has God laid on your heart? What have you given up on? What have you stopped believing for? God hears you when you pray and, at just the right time, the answer to your prayer will be revealed.

Almost everyone has a worldview of spirituality. More frequently than not it is unspoken and held silently. Therefore, many individuals have questions and seek apprehension through curiosity. Furthermore, there are several people who are strong in their beliefs and do not have a quavering devotion to the Lord, but have complete faith. There are also several that are strong prayer warriors or know at least someone that is. However, many claim to have faith, yet they never stepped into a church. There are also numerous individuals that do not necessarily pray, yet others feel prayer is a false hope. Throughout the circumstances, people generate positive thoughts and energy through the hardship of life. Nevertheless, they are evenly essential to me because they, believe, as life attempts to devour them. To me that is the key element of the matter, belief. My spiritual journey goes something like this.

In summarizing the “Doctrine of the Christian Hope” by author Shirley C. Guthrie, Jr., it embraces the Christian faith that lives from the raising of the crucified Christ, and strains after the promises of the universal future of Christ. However, hope is trustful expectation, particularly regarding the fulfillment of God’s promises. And still, biblical hope is the anticipation of a favorable outcome under God’s guidance. Especially hope that is the confidence of what God has done for us in the past guarantees our participation in what God will do in the future. Therefore, God alone is the ultimate ground also object of hope that was generated by His mighty deed in history.

The purpose of this paper is to reveal a direct correlation between prayer and character development. It is crucial that Christians fully understand this tool that has been put in place in order for us to be able to communicate with the Lord, our Creator. Praying and communing with the Lord leads to and builds not only a stronger relationship with Christ, but it also continues to build us in strength and character. The reflection of Christ should be evident in the life of a Christian through character traits also known as the fruit of the spirit. Prayer strengthens the character of a

Are you a steadfast and unmovable witness for Jesus Christ? Then you most definitely know beyond a shadow of doubt that there is absolute power in prayer. This was purposely left last for the main ingredients for prayer manifestation: faith you must believe, gratitude you must give God thanks, and patience you must wait on the Lord because he we know it’s coming just release it in God’s hand wait for it and move on to the next thing.

Having been a Christian for many years I thought that I had a fair knowledge of what it meant to pray. I was amazed and humbled by the idea that through Jesus’ restorative act on the cross I am able to come into God’s presence - and not only come but be welcomed and even longed for. I believed that prayer is a powerful tool to petition God , a vehicle to praise Him , and an instrument to increase our intimacy with Him . I understood that people pray in a variety of ways, based on the teaching they have received, their experience, and even their personality. Most commonly, I engaged in prayer as a conversation with God.