Posted on 04/30/2010 8:03:48 AM PDT by Quix
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7 “When you pray, don’t babble on and on as people of other religions do. They think their prayers are answered merely by repeating their words again and again. 8 Don’t be like them, for your Father knows exactly what you need even before you ask him! 9 Pray like this: Our Father in heaven, --New Living Translation 7And when you pray, do not heap up phrases (multiply words, repeating the same ones over and over) as the Gentiles do, for they think they will be heard for their much speaking. [I Kings 18:25-29.] 8Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him. 9Pray, therefore, like this: 15But if you do not forgive others their trespasses [their [j]reckless and willful sins, [k]leaving them, letting them go, and [l]giving up resentment], neither will your Father forgive you your trespasses. --Amplified Pray with Simplicity 5"And when you come before God, don't turn that into a theatrical production either. All these people making a regular show out of their prayers, hoping for stardom! Do you think God sits in a box seat? 6"Here's what I want you to do: Find a quiet, secluded place so you won't be tempted to role-play before God. Just be there as simply and honestly as you can manage. The focus will shift from you to God, and you will begin to sense his grace. 7-13"The world is full of so-called prayer warriors who are prayer-ignorant. They're full of formulas and programs and advice, peddling techniques for getting what you want from God. Don't fall for that nonsense. This is your Father you are dealing with, and he knows better than you what you need. With a God like this loving you, you can pray very simply. Like this: 16-18"When you practice some appetite-denying discipline to better concentrate on God, don't make a production out of it. It might turn you into a small-time celebrity but it won't make you a saint. If you 'go into training' inwardly, act normal outwardly. Shampoo and comb your hair, brush your teeth, wash your face. God doesn't require attention-getting devices. He won't overlook what you are doing; he'll reward you well. |
Mark Kirby: O Mother of Good Counsel, I am all thine, Most Holy Mary, There is no part of my life that is not open to thee, I want to be completely transparent with thee, Praying in this way, I can be at rest, |
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Now, wait, was a subpoena issued? Is someone here the prosecuting attorney?
You may demand to have a discussion, but others may find you so unpleasant that they disagree. Anything is possible. Anyway, refusing to answer someone's set up question is refusing to play a game wherein the other guy makes all the rules. Playing such a game would be ridiculous.
Because you posted that you were making a collection of all my dreadful sayings. I just thought you’d have it right there. Sorry if you didn’t.
The discussion wasn’t important enough to me to look it up myself.
A.M.E.N.!
I've never said such a thing. Try using the search function and see for yourself.
I’m curious to how Paul would feel about being called “insane”. Would he think it was offensive? Would he think it was harsh?
What’s wrong with seeing people on the road to damnation and wanting to point them to the Gate? Is anything more important than a person’s eternal life? How can one be obsessed with such? Is any amount of concern over it too much?
Oh, only a FEW of my dreadful sayings? I don’t want to look it up, but I recall that you posted a bunch of my posts. On another thread. I don’t care, though. Forget it, if you want.
“We do not WORSHIP Mary, we Love her.”
What’s with the capital L? Is it to denote a love greater than regular love? A kind of worship perhaps?
Paul who?
The core of Christians is accepting, following, and obeying Christ as outlined in His Word.
The core of Romeians is doctrines of man and demon.
Christianity is Christianity no matter where in the history timeline you look at it. Romeianity and Maryianity are something altogether different.
Consider the prayers that Catholics offer to saints, along with the claims that "they're not dead" and "they can hear us in Heaven". Consider the reverence / veneration that Catholics offer to Mary, the mother of Jesus. Now watch the backspin as a Catholic tries to justify saying that one of Christ's apostles was insane when he wrote his epistles.
For comparison's sake, try imagining the reaction from Catholics if a Protestant were to say that Mary was just experiencing severe PMS when she composed the Magnificat.
Exodus 20:16. Or, to put it in modern terms, back it up or shut it up. Choose one or the other, I don't care which.
Haha! You stunned them speechless.
They are loathe to speak of the Romeble in public.
I did not say St. Paul was insane.
Who are Romeians?
Thanks, Judith.
You are right. That’s my position.
Non sequitur. That means, it does not follow.
Amen, metmom! That is why I KNOW that I HAVE eternal life. My salvation rests upon the finished work of Christ who died FOR me and all who place their trust in him.
Acts 4:12
Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved."
Whoa! And if I don't? What will the proddies do? Be rude? Same-o same-o. Say naughty things about me? Yawn. Tell yet another falsehood about the Catholic Church? What's new?
Paul was so "obsessed" with people's eternal life that he pleaded day and night, in tears, for years, so that they would turn to the truth. That is a burden for souls that Christ desires all his disciples to have.
Sore loser.
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