PRAYER THAT WORKS

The fellowship of prayer is an awesome experience for those who have trained themselves to plunge into it hungrily. For others it is a very harrowing and dry experience, and yet much is expected, and many have a wiki-load of unanswered prayers. But they never stop praying. They still hope that God will somehow still answer. A sort of gamble. But prayer is not supposed to be like that. Prayer is not a gamble. Prayer is definite. Prayer is specific. Prayers are intended to be answered. Prayer is like a light switch. You press it, you should get results. Every time Jesus prayed he got results. He prayed the right way. His prayer works. If our prayers don't work, then it's possible that we are doing it all wrong.

What do we need to do to get answered prayers. The answers are quite simple. The answer is given to us by God himself, the very person who answers prayers. According to him, our prayers must:

1. Be according to his will. Remember that famous scripture in 1 John 5:14? If we pray according to his will thingy. It's true. Pray out of his will and you are on your own. Relax, it is not an authoritarian will, and he is not some evil maniacal white haired autocrat as you imagined. Whatever it is you are praying for just go through the Bible and see if there is any provision in there for you to have it, 99% of the time it is always there, so you are in luck.

2. Our prayer must be heartfelt. This means that you gotta totally be desirous of what you are praying about to have it. Remember another famous scripture James 5:16? The effecetive fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. The amplified translation puts it as The effective fervent heartfelt continued prayer of a righteous man availeth much, tremendous in its working. 

I feel like I am quoting this improperly. Compare my re-quote with the actual stuff which says The earnest (heartfelt, continued) prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available [dynamic in its working].

I literally cannot finish explaining that. If you read it well and paint the picture correctly, your prayer that is heartfelt and continued, meaning you don't give up on your request, it says it works like an Ahmadinejad (Iranian president who wants to kill the rest of us Christians) nuclear bomb. Do you know what a dynamo is? It is energy that continues to reproduce itself and is self-sustaining. That is what your prayer does. Tell me why you won't get an answer. You will!

NOT PAYING YOUR TITHE IS NOT A SIN

Heresy! Heresy!! Calm down. It is not an heresy. An heresy is not something you disagree with. You don't label something you disagree with as an heresy. You just have a differing opinion. Heresy by definition depends on what field of truths you are coming from. There are issues deemed heresy in Christianity and in Islam, amongst others, to name just those two. By definition heresy is any belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established beliefs or customs. I have no such intentions to question the meaning of established beliefs, or customs because that in itself is a long topic.

What I concern myself with is the idea that not paying ones tithe is a sin. No, it is not. It never has been. And it is not an heresy either. The list of heresies in Christendom are adoptionism, Apollinarism, Arianism, Docetism, Luciferianism, Macedonians or Pneumatomachians, Melchisedechians, Monarchianism, Monophysitism or Eutychianism, Monothelitism, Nestorianism, Patripassianism, Psilanthropism; Sabellianism, etc. There is quite a long list of them. If you are curious you can read them here. I have listed these items, it does not mean I listed them because I disagree with them or that I agree with them. The reason for all the confusion today is because some folks just won't go read the holy writ for themselves. They lazily prefer to listen to someone who has read it. I must tell you, listening to someone isn't just enough. You need to be able to listen and search your own thoughts. You need to be able to test, taste and see the truth for yourself. truth is like a great light. Well, I think that last construction is even wrong and misleading. Truth is a light. That is an equally misleading last statement as well. I totally need to say this rightly. TRUTH IS LIGHT.

And before I shed more light on why not paying your tithe is not going to take you to hell, and why it is not a sin, let me shed some lights on what light is. And by the way, don't get me wrong, I pay my tithe, okay? I do. I pay my tithe. I do it because I am convinced it is right to do so. I do it because it has great benefits. Benefits I have experienced firsthand. I fail a few times in payment, but I don't kill myself about it. I still pay the next one. I don't make any attempt to strangulate myself or allow the devil use it to strangulate me if I do not pay. What most practicing believers in Christ have done is to make a religion out of it and stab themselves with many unnecessary wounds when they fail. So, back to light.