Does God answer the prayers of the ungodly or the bad people.

@suspenseful (40193)
Canada
September 6, 2008 3:17pm CST
Many here believe that God only answers the prayers of the godly and the prayers of the bad people or non believers HE ignores. Bot often times when a bad person prays that even though he does not believe in God, he will give it a shot and pray for the life of his child, then God will grant that request. I mean how is God going to open up the heart of that unbeliever and give him the faith to believe if HE did not answer his prayer? And sometimes God will delay answering the prayer of a godly person because of it, like if a bad person wants his child saved, but the doctor would have had to delay saving a godly person, would that be all right? So let us suppose that happened to you? Would you be mad at God, the devil, or the unrighteous man who should have believed in God in the first place? I would be mad at the last two. After all, I feel if you have to have a bad thing happening you make you turn to God, you are coming to HIM not out of faith and trust but out of fear. So who would you blame?
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@slickcut (8141)
• United States
6 Sep 08
We are all Gods children..If a person does not believe in God to some extent they would not be praying....I think God hears all prayers and if it is his will to answer he will,some prayers like foolish prayers i do not think God answers...I have heard people say things like I am going to pray that God punishes her,he does not answer silly prayers like that....The Bible clearly says that anyone asking anything of God and believing in their heart & have faith God hears their prayers.I do not care if they are sinners or not..You cannot buy your way into God kingdom by good works...We are all sinners saved by grace....We love our children & want the best for them even though they may not be doing what we feel is the right thing..So yes i do believe that God loves us all & hears all of our prayers..If God does not hear a sinners prayer ,how could they be saved? makes no sense to me ...
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
6 Sep 08
Actually I did a very foolish prayer. Before I became a Christian other than Jesus Christ is nice, HE is the son of God, etc. I was in the hospital and I did not want to bear another illegitimate child. So I prayed to God not to let this happen to me again. Well that was a rash and foolish prayer because I should have specified that I did not want to bear another child out of wedlock, but I wanted to bear a child of my husband's when the time comes. But because I left things unsaid, God thought I meant I did not want to bear a child ever. So HE does answer prayers of worldy people and I was very worldly then. Only those prayers often turn out bad.
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
7 Sep 08
I know I am hard on myself, but I kept thinking that it was something in my nature or whether it was that fertility said that my insides were so messed up that I would give birth to monsters, only I thought that I had the genetic disposition to give birth to a potential Adolph Hitler. I just hoped it was not something bad that I carried on. I also wondered whether it was not my fault at all, but maybe someone else's fault and that God would be judging them on their unforgiveness, but if that is the case, why was I the one to show them up? Because really there are some people who can say, "I know in my heart that I was not meant to have a baby, I lack impatience, I do not like little children and I am neglectful,: but that is not my case. My case is no nice guy proposed to me until it was too late and there was a lot of unforgiveness among those of the fake church I used to belong to - they would not invite their sons over when i was around. So if you think unforgiveness of others does not hurt, I can tell you they are wrong.
@slickcut (8141)
• United States
6 Sep 08
Oh No suspensful God knows your heart and he knew just what you meant,he reads our thoughts.I do not know why God chose not to let you bear another child,but it was not because of that prayer...I have found that you are way to hard on yourself for one thing...If God chose not to bless you with a child there is a very good reason behind it ,trust me on that.God loves you and would never deny you anything that your heart desired....It could be because you had that problem that perhaps it messed up your insides and maybe you would have had a deformed child .who knows the reason,only God knows..You have been blessed because God gave you the chance to adopt 2 wonderful sons,and that is as well as having your own..Could you love them more had you gave birth to them?I doubt it....You need to STOP thinking you are being punished because of your past..We all have a past & i am sure that others past is just as bad or worse than yours...When you turned your life over to God all of your sins were thrown into the sea of forgetfullness...
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• United States
6 Sep 08
Our God works in mysterious ways we shouldn't try to out guess him but if an unrighteous PERSON prays for something to the detriment of a Christian i don't think he would ANSWER!
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
8 Sep 08
I hope not. I mean it would be terrible. I do wonder if Hitler prayed to be master of the world, to get his revenge on those who had better jobs than him, etc. I guess in a way his pray for almost world domination was answered and many Christians were killed by his evil Nazis. Or maybe he did not pray at all, and decided that he was going to rule the Earth, etc. Sort of makes you wonder.
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• United States
8 Sep 08
sure does however we must remember God works in mysterious ways his wonders to perform!Some things we are not meant to understand
@efc872 (1077)
• Jamaica
6 Sep 08
The ungodly don't pray and get, you the godly pray and don't get. Before you go any further something is wrong. Maybe you don.t know how to pray or prayer is worthless. What do you think is happening?. Any idea?.
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@efc872 (1077)
• Jamaica
8 Sep 08
suspenseful, please continue--
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
17 Sep 08
It is that "if God wills." it is confusing. Does it mean if God wills that HE should answer that prayer, or does it mean if God wills because we have to believe that God will answer that prayer positively and change one's heart? After all, if I pray for a baby and I look the other way when kids act up, I do not stop a boy from running between parked cars, etc. or I show no concern, then God will not grant me that baby (standards are higher for Christians) so I have to also pray not only for a baby but for a change of heart and for the heart of someone who loves children and will never let them be harmed. And supposing one does care for children and no baby comes, one not only keeps up with it, but has to pray also that the child is born healthy and that what genetic diseases one shares with the husband or that the husband may also be acceptable to having a baby, because will some men only want one or two children and if those are adopted, they do not think it is necessary because well they are not women. I am beginning to believe that the "If God Wills" meant that HE would answer our prayers if we have no doubts and that what is impossible with man is possible with God. So God can do things that no man can do. And that also means answering impossible prayers.
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
8 Sep 08
I do think the ungodly pray when they are desperate. They do not pray like I pray every morning, every evening, and at meals and extra prays during the day. They pray when they lost their job, they pray when the hurricane is about to strike, when the torpedo is about to sweep off the roof of their houses. It is said there are no atheists in fox holes. I wish I knew. I am not praying for lots of money, i am praying for a need. But in our church we are told to pray afterwards If God wills it. Maybe I should skip that part.
• United States
6 Sep 08
I was not a bad person but also not particularly godly and God has always answered my prayers. Now I have become more spiritual than I used to be. How can one not appreciate their blessing by showing gratitude through increased faith
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@Ldyjarhead (10233)
• United States
6 Sep 08
Last time I looked, God answered ALL prayers from ALL of His children ... it's just that those prayers aren't always answered in the way we would like them to be answered. No is still an answer Wait is still an answer Be still is still an answer
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
7 Sep 08
I can accept the yes and the maybe and the wait a minute. I do not like the no answers, because then I believe that maybe God said no, because I did something wrong or someone else did something wrong and either I had to fix what it was or the other person had to die and go to judgment day and have God say, "i know what you did!!"
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
7 Sep 08
Do you really think I am going to kill a baby or to harm her? What if what happened to me was not because I would have harmed a child, but because God wanted to show how someone else was unforgiving towards me? It is sort of like that blind man who the disciples felt had sinned, but he had not done it, but it was to show some others up. And do you really think that because God said no right now, HE might have figured that I will keep on asking and asking and would have granted me my request because of my insistence?
@Ldyjarhead (10233)
• United States
7 Sep 08
So you think you know better than God?
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• United States
6 Sep 08
I think people are a little presumptuous when they decide whose prayers God should answer. Nobody but God knows what's in the heart of petitioners. There is no way to say which prayers should be answered. That's up to God's wisdom. There are times when people we perceive as "ungodly" get breaks that believers don't. But that's part of the plan. Life isn't fair, God never promised that it would be. As for a doctor choosing between a godly person and an ungodly person, that's not the doctor's place. Doctors save people. It doesn't matter what kind of person they are. Even if the doctor did make a choice, God isn't the one responsible. The doctor is. As for a bad thing making you turn to God being the wrong way to come to God, I would argue that anything which turns someone's heart to God is good. Whether you start out selfish or pure-hearted, all that matters is where you end up. Many a faithful person started out on the wrong path, only finding enlightenment along the way. Abraham Lincoln once said, "I have often been driven to my knees, because I had no where else to go." It's the truth.
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
6 Sep 08
I always wondered why God answer my prayers when I was not a Christian, even though I felt I was. And why did HE answer the only rash prayer I did before I had a chance to explain it? Why did HE interpret my prayer of not wanting this to happen to me again when I meant I never wanted to bear another child out of wedlock and not I never want to bear any more children? I felt like that lady in the fairy tale who wished for long life, but forgot to mention that she did not want to grow old either. And I waited until there was no bad thing to turn me to God. I wanted to come by faith, and not by fear. I knew if I came by fear, I would want everything to turn up like roses and would have blamed God for every disappointment in my life.
• United States
7 Sep 08
God isn't a lottery ticket. We don't get to pick and choose how God answers our prayers. The choice that is made is something we cannot understand. However, coming to God out of fear is not a bad thing in and of itself. Fear can lead to faith. If you have no faith, why are you praying to God in the first place? A heart-felt prayer has to have faith behind it, whether it is said out of fear or anything else. To say that the two are mutually exclusive constrains the transformative power of God's love. You're right that most people pray to God when they need something. Humans have a tendency to think when everything goes right, they did it right, but whenever anything goes wrong, it must be God. However, believers have been known to say that whenever something goes right, God gets all the credit, but when something goes wrong, humans get all the blame. Either way, it doesn't work. God is behind all things, human actions as well. We may not be able to see the entire puzzle, but that doesn't mean we aren't a piece. Blaming God doesn't get anyone anywhere. Acknowledging that some things are out of your control, is important, but realizing that a great deal of things are in your control is empowering. God is there for us, no matter what, no matter when, and so long as we truly want to be close to God, no matter why.
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
7 Sep 08
I thought that when an unbeliever or a hedonist prays to God, it is something he or she wants and God answers that pray so that that person will feel their need and not just pray for their wants because like that quail incident in Exodus, God will give them what they want but what is bad for them. I suppose that is the simplest way like me praying it would snow and God doing it and since it seldom snowed then - it could have happened. But if you say it was chance, then why pray? I know that there are some people trying to make me cry and make me feel that God never answers prayers, but this is what I feel. God answers the prayers of the bad people or ungodly, even if the result of the prayer will hurt them. So that snow that I prayed for, may have also caused someone to not get to work, or a truck going down a step hill to slip and get into an accident. When one becomes a Christian, then the prayers do good. The prayer of the unrighteous are meant to get that person to realize his sin and confess that he needs God.
@LittleMel (8742)
• Canada
8 Sep 08
I don't think He does but if it's true then yea I would be mad However I believe that if I haven't done anything wrong I wouldn't lose a fight and yea I never do it could be long years of fight or a few hours it happens if I was wrong though things could get awfully sore for me but well everybody pays for their mistakes right? Bad people or bad intentions can not win if none of us let it to if everyone choose to do good, which is God's way, heaven on earth isn't impossible but most people don't, and that has nothing to do with God answering their prayers it's just that their own gods have more followers
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
8 Sep 08
That sounds about right. After all the devil was cast down to earth and now he is busy messing things up. And since he is a spirit and invisible to the human eye, we do not know what dastardly and horrible things he does or how much power that God lets him have (you know, enough rope that he can hang himself) So that is why bad things happen to good people, and good things happen to bad things. We have not only our own fleshly nature against us, but we also have the world and the devil working in conjunction with one another.
@bfarrier1 (2082)
• United States
8 Sep 08
Well I myself am a believer in God I wont say I am Godly but I do believe and I do pray not only for the things I need answered but for alot of other people and I dont think God would not answer anyones prayers because he thought they werent godly enough. I dont think I have the right to blame because I am not the person.You have a great night.
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
8 Sep 08
I am not that spiritual or pious myself. Other people have this serene way about them and so I sometimes think that because they are naturally pious that God will answer their prayers. They have so much patience but I do not have any. I pray for myself, my needs, and my family. It is hard when you want the salvation of someone and yet God says no, and I have no idea whether he will confess on his deathbed or not, because it does not look like in this life time.
@Maggiepie (7816)
• United States
8 Sep 08
We are ALL "bad people." God loves us even though we're all sinners, so, the answer MUST be: yes -- IF the prayer is sincere, not vain & self-serving, He hears it. I'm convinced He also ANSWERS all prayers. It's possible, however, that a TRULY "bad person" could flat out refuse to hear (or like) His answer. If you doubt that, remember what Christ Himself said, that there is only ONE "unforgivable" sin: the "denial" (in the modern tongue, we would say the "REFUSAL") of the Holy Spirit. This is sad, but it's because God will not _force_ ANYONE to accept Him. People send themselves to Hell. And the true pain of Hell is the absence of all God's love & light. Maggiepie
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
8 Sep 08
Well if a truly evil person says that there is no Holy Spirit then he does deserve to go to Hell. I do wonder why a Christian gets a refusal not to open the hearts of his or her loved ones to Christ. It makes it very sad to see that you are the only one in your family who goes to the true Church and your husband thinks the false church that has now put the trappings of man and man's traditions in place of what God, Jesus and the Apostle Paul put on as the true church and yet he refuses to come to your own church and you wonder whether it is because you did not act pious enough.
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@Maggiepie (7816)
• United States
17 Sep 08
Suspenseful, I'm not sure, but I THINK you've got my post mixed up with someone else's, because I'm not married, & have no arguments with a man's family about religion, whether it be a true church or not. In any case, what I said about denying the Holy Spirit, you definitely misunderstood. You see, to modern ears, the wording of that scripture does NOT mean just denying it is TRUE that there is a Holy Spirit, it means to REFUSE to ALLOW the Holy Spirit to live within you. The term "denying" back when the bible was translated to English was NOT USED the same way we use it! The word "unforgivable" is also a tad misleading for similar reasons. It isn't so much that Christ won't FORGIVE us if we refuse to allow Him entrance to guide us, it is more that He made us free, promised us free choice, & cannot & WILL not reverse His promise. You must remember: God ALWAYS KEEPS His promises! So if we CHOOSE to reject Him, then He will be sad, of course, but He grants us our desire. BUT. If anyone TRULY understands what Love is & what Hell is, one WILL NOT choose the latter. That's why the CHURCH was founded by God, to teach us HOW to learn these important things. So refusing to hear His Church will lead us to Hell if we're not careful. But a truly searching heart, through God's mercy, will never see Hell. Maggiepie
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@Anne18 (11029)
6 Sep 08
Well I don't pray at all as I just do not believe any more, so I must be one of the ungodly or bad people. Why if you are ungodly would you want to pray, you would surely want your prayer to be answered there and then and then go back and be bad??!! I do respect people who believe and I have no problem if they want to pray and it makes them feel good, its just not my thing anymore.
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
8 Sep 08
I still believe that God will answer my prayer. You misunderstood. But I did belong to a church before the one I do now that made a show of piety and would not forgive me. My church now believes that God answers prayers in faith, but that church previous to the one I am in now, well when I got baptized, I thought according to them my sins were forgiven but even though God did they did not. An example, there was a woman who had been a mistress of a rich man before she joined, and none of the widowers there figured she was a good match, and me, I was not allowed to wear a white dress when I married. Yet in the church I belong to now, there was a girl who had left and had an illegitimate child and they let her get married in white. I left that church for that reason. Any church that would still keep my sin into remembrance is not that good. We are suppose to remember where we were but it is between us and God.
@Arkie69 (2156)
• United States
6 Sep 08
Don't try to put the blame on anyone. A lot of people come to God because their lives have reached a point they can no longer handle it. That is exactly how I came to God. My personal life, my marriage and everything around my family was falling apart. Everything I did to try and fix it just made it worse. I finally reached a point that I had no choice but call on God for His help. Very often God hears and answers the prayers of people not considered to be Christians. How else could a person ask God to forgive his sins?
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• United States
7 Sep 08
Thats where I am arkie, everything around me is falling apart....but I'm hesitant to ask God to fix it, because I surely havent been faithful to him. I feel as if I have no right to ask anything of him
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
7 Sep 08
Once you ask God for forgiveness and accept Jesus Christ then what you should do is to pray that HE will lead you to the right church. What happened with me is I thought that any church that looked pious where they wore the long dresses, where they had the bible open all the time, where they did not watch television or read the newspaper or fiction was the right church. But that church had a lack of forgiveness and that was the wrong church. Sometimes what man considers right is not. Sometimes a church has form without heart.
@Arkie69 (2156)
• United States
8 Sep 08
After a person has been close to God for a while it is fine to attend a church. God can teach you a lot real quick about the churches. You may not like what He shows you and it may not agree with the way you were raised but you will know it is truth. God's wisdom is seeing this world and mankind through God's eyes.I do not recommend a new Christian attend church. At this point in a person's life they need to be alone with God so He can get them started off on the right foot. You cannot listen to God and man both. That is why Jesus went into the wilderness for 40 day. Jesus needed to be alone with God one on one without any distractions. We need the same thing. You have only one chance to get started off right and if you miss it then you may never get back to God.
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• Philippines
7 Sep 08
For me, I would be mad at the devil but not at the unrighteous man. I think it's not really out of fear that unrighteous and ungodly people turn to God. It would be more lke they find that small piece of belief of faith in their hearts just like shipwreck survivor finding a piece of floating wood in the sea. Finding the way back to God, I admit, is not easy. The devil infused our hearts with PRIDE -- the one thing that caused the devil's downfall in the first place -- that is why whe think we have become unworthy to reform ourselves and go back to God. Actually, God is ever patient and waits for us to do so. We just have to learn to let go of pride, open up our hearts to His messages and we might just be able bring back the broken pieces of our faith. Blessed are the people who have already found their ways to God. I guess it would be a bigger blessing if they help those who are stray rather than despise or blame them.
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
18 Sep 08
For that god hater why did you choose Christian for your interest? It would have been just as silly for me to choose atheist? Well do you really believe that God is the devil? God cannot be evil. Man is evil because he disobeys God. Before man was perfect, Adam and Eve were created perfect, but when Satan came in in the form of a serpent and got Eve to eat the forbidden fruit and give it to her husband who did not protest, then sin entered in and with sin, evil desires, wanting to murder, etc. Oh if someone does not believe that God is good and the Bible is correct, they also do not believe or follow the Ten Commandments, so I would not trust them. I mean they would do what is right in their eyes. And when people became evil, then nations had to be wiped out. So do not blame God and God's people for your trouble. I have seen more intolerance in ungodly people than in godly. Jaymezroolz, there are those who were formerly God's people who left and we should pray for them to return and those who do not want to know God, and we have to pray for them to change their hearts, but sometimes God just leaves them in their misery. And we cannot say they are good people, because they rejected God. As for the ones who were evil, and then suddenly God touched their hearts, then we should be glad because for some people that is a miracle. I mean who would think that the thief on the cross ever came to be in Paradise?
• Philippines
7 Sep 08
YES. GOD answers prayers to everyone whether if you are non believer, religious person, good or bad. Its between God and the one who pray. God answers prayers in different ways to make you realize on something for yourself or for you to understand the situation. YES, LATER, NO, NOT NOW, NEVER. Its you yourself can tell. If God grant it to you or maybe later on because you doubt your own prayers and Never...since you did not specify exactly on your prayer what you what or need. i dont know if anybody understands what im trying to say..but it is what is in your heart of you deserved an answered prayers.
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
17 Sep 08
I pray that God will grant me a birth child even though now it is impossible, and also for the conversion of my husband, my sons, daughter-in-law, her family, my other son;s fiance, my unsaved relatives,etc. I can work to make extra money. So I am not asking for wealth, power, etc. or material things. I used to have doubts, but now I know that God is working on my husband. That stroke he got may have been God opening up his heart, or now that my husband cannot walk as well, it is God saying, "you had the chance when you could walk quickly to the church that is just down the block, but you blew it."
• United States
7 Sep 08
YES, LATER, NO, NOT NOW, NEVER. Well this helps... I want a million dollars in my mailbox right now! uh, never? I want a million dollars in my IRA sixteen years from now! uh, later? I want to wake up from my sleep tomorrow morning! uh, yes? I want a better job! uh, not now?, I want an extra week of paid vacation this year! uh, no? yeah, I can tell how my prayers will be answered... The harder I work, the more I save, the better insurance I have and the better person I am to those in and around my life, the better off I will be no matter what happens in the future. Why? because I work hard to make it that way, I don't need an imaginary friend to do these things for me, he won't do it, he won't help me do it, I have to do it myself and so does everybody else. A billion people will pray to win the lottery this week, only a few will actually win, act of god? if they prayed it will be, you can bet that! football teams accross the country will pray for safety and a victory this week, but, accidents will happen at the same percentage rate that they have for years and years and years, and only half of the teams will come away with a win...ONLY HALF! I guess God will only hear half of the football prayers this week. And next week too probably.
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• Philippines
7 Sep 08
God never made a selection which people to answer. There are those that spread the words of God but don't live them. There are also people that live God words but keep it for themselves, but what matters most is when we pray, we pray, God don't seek what you've done but rather God see's what is in your heart. If God leads you the edge of a cliff, trust Him and let go, cause either one of the two things will happen, its either He'll catch you if you fall or He'll teach you how to fly.
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@efc872 (1077)
• Jamaica
7 Sep 08
iceblizzard, I would love to see you fly.
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• Philippines
8 Sep 08
I would love too. Thanks for the compliment.
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@tammytwo (4298)
• United States
7 Sep 08
I would think non believers wouldn't be praying to God. But if they do then they really aren't non believers and no one can say whether he would answer them or not.
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@Lakota12 (42600)
• United States
7 Sep 08
Dont blame anyone! For if there is a god he should be able to save all ! For he is god and he can do all .
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@bugbaby (1787)
• Indonesia
7 Sep 08
i think that's the secret of God no one knows God answer or not to bad people, God not seeing people from good or bad, HE look from the heart of someone.
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@dragon54u (31636)
• United States
7 Sep 08
If God only answered prayers of believers or good people, He would nix any chance of reforming bad people. If your child turned out to be a bad person, would you ignore his pleas if you could save his child? No, you'd do your best and hope that he would see that there is a chance for him to change his ways. He would see that if he emulated you, he might be happier. I think God thinks the same way. So yes, I do believe God answers the prayers of everyone if it's in their best interests.
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
18 Sep 08
I believe that too. Bad people have good kids so it would be right for God to make that person suffer, HE can just open his heart and even if the bad person may not choose God, he might not hinder the word of God. I do believe that God will answer our prayers, but HE wants us never to give up and to believe, not just in what is best but also that the prayer will be answered, and if the prayer is a bad one- like the ruination of a nation, then HE will give a change of heart.
@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
6 Sep 08
suspenseful nobody knows how God decides who to answer prayes for, we are just guessing and guessing doesnt cut it. lets just go ahead and pray and let God figure it all out. not blaming anyoneas we cannot see into God's mind. maybe we all come out of faith and fear, as we come upon big problems that leave us gasping and grasping for help. I do not blame anyone.
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
7 Sep 08
I always believe in trying and trying and keeping praying. If I were born infertile, then God would have given me a great gift in another manner. I have a friend about the same age, and she and her husband did not have children, not even adopted ones, but she is an extremely good business manager. But I was not born this way, so God did not give me an extremely good talent to compensate. In fact, I was a clutz. And it is not that I was praying for lots of money, fame and fortune, just a baby and the ability to love children and to not harm children even indirectly, to be a good mother. Was that a bad thing to pray for? What would have happened if I did not, would I have become the child killer of the century?
• India
7 Sep 08
hi 1st of all we need to understand that we have two aspects - physical self and mental self. How can we judge whether a person is good or bad? May be his heart is full of love and devotion for the god, but pretends to be a non-believer. Life cycle is a drama for the god. HE directs all of us and knowingly or unknowingly we act as HE wants us to act. We feel the pain or joy because HE wants it. Whether HE'll listen to my prayer that is absolutely HIS business and i have no right to question. Prayer, pain and joy are related to physical self which is perishable. Mental self, better known as Soul is eternal. Soul is a part of the supreme power, god. But, inside our body, soul plays the role of a mere witness. For some of us, as wisdom preveils, soul takes control of our senses and let us realize that the universe is nothing but a big stage and we are nothing but actors and god is the omnipotent director. As cloud of darkness is removed by wisdom, we find there is no bad or good man, no point of turning to god or to pray to HIM. Whatever my physical self is doing is just responding according to god's direction. We act as HE wants. We are good and believe in god, because HE wants us to be so. SOme of us are bad and don't believe in god or pray for selfish needs, because HE wants them to be so. May be who is bad today, tomorrow he'll become good and vice versa. That's why its truely called God's universe. HE and only HE is the the supreme LORD.
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• United States
7 Sep 08
Glad to hear that, guess I'm just doing what God wants me too, maybe I'll make it to heaven after all!!
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