Faith is a personal relationship of trust with God. Doubt and fear kill faith. Sometimes faith starts with a leap. Sometimes faith grows with some baby steps. Someone should be seeking God with all their heart and soul and strength and mind.
And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. 7 And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. (Matthew 5:6-8)
Given a man is praying, was he trying to please man or please God? Praying in public, in a Church, a man may have been seeking attention from mom and dad and friends. He wanted to look righteous and holy. Given someone is confident in his faith, it is not wrong to pray so you can be seen. Someone may be modeling behavior for others. Someone shouldn't pray to be seen, like they are seeking attention from men.
When someone prays, it may be like a letter to God. God likes his letters. When someone prays the same thing over and over again, it may be like blowing up God's cellphone with text messages. Someone didn't have faith that God would hear it. Doubt and fear kill faith. Pray once and understand God heard it.
On this blog, someone was taught to be intuitive.
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God has a character.
- God is love. (1 John 4:8) God's love is fatherly. God has good plans.
- The Lord is a Man of War. (Exodus 15:3)(Isaiah 42:13)(Matthew 10:34-37)
We are not selectively reading. God is exactly who he says he is. God doesn't change. (Malachi 3:6-7) When someone is perceiving, he was seeking The Lord Jesus Christ with all his heart and soul and strength and mind. We read the New Testament from an Old Testament understanding. Someone is becoming aligned with the Prophets of The Bible. Prior to there being a New Testament, Apostle Paul was teaching out of the Book of Isaiah, showing people how Jesus came fulfilling prophecy.
Does someone have doubts and fears about God? You need to pray and center yourself. A man goes to his secret or private place, maybe his bedroom. Someplace where he is alone with no distractions. He prays and he seeks God. Given someone found God, or was reading here, it is possible he ended up with a terror of God. That is healthy. A man needs to center himself. To do that, he may need to be alone with God for awhile.
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