If You Don’t Pray, You Won’t Live 

Sergy Biju amen. Thank you!

@@vivalav5199 yes great advice!

Thanks for writing.

Crazy cooky loon.

Have 2BeHere huh?

Amreetha Priscilla

Can you use an example? I’m not 100% of what it means

I think you missed the point. This is not a salvation point.

That is so true. Making a plan to meet with God.

If you think the devil makes you think things, you have abrogated your responsibility as a human being. It's almost as ridiculous as saying the devil made me do it.

Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Read the bible more hear his word more.

yes, you have to talk to your imaginary friend if you want him to seem more real.

@@bradcrampton8920 if you dont believe why are you here?

@@bradcrampton8920 let me ask you a question... You refer to Christ as an "imaginary friend"... why is that? is it because you have never met Him? I am not being disrespectful but how can you make a statement like that? I have never met you but i trust that you are very real... as a matter of fact there are people that know you and love you and spend time with you even if i have never met you, i can say that you are not real but the evidence is seen in the lives of the people that you have affected... my point (and forgive me if i am making this confusing) is that you are making a statement about a God that i have met... not face to face or in a physical sense but He has changed my life and continues to do so... the evidence is often seen in those that do know HIM.... i must admit that there have been many times that i have failed to live my life like i know HIM, but even those times do not reduce His "realness". I hope that you may take some time to investigate HIM, not with predetermined ideas but an open mind as to His genuineness.... Again... this is not meant to start a war of words on a RU-vid stream but to share with you my personal relationship with HIM...my real Lord

@@angiescott4601 I have investigated him quite thoroughly, having been a believer for over 15 years. I was in a state of mind similar to yours that you have at present. Suffice to say that over time, I recognized that it was false and abandoned the faith at some point. It didn't happen over night, in fact it was a process that took a few years. The similarities with the faith and an imaginary friend are as you stated: i have met... not face to face or in a physical sense That's a pretty good definition of an imaginary companion, it seems real and I can make it sort of real but it is not real. In fact it is so similar to the kind of friends that kids imagine - it's kind of eerie that a grown up can do this also. (Is that why jesus admonishes to become as little children?) His messages come through feelings and dreams with no direct contact. Sounds a little suspicious. Another interesting similarity is that he answers prayers about as reliably as a flip of the coin. My main conclusion is summarized as follows: I think most believers don't much understand the power of imagination. One can enhance their mood just by picturing someone they love in their mind. Happiness can be increased by being grateful. Forgiving and feeling forgiven can lighten the load when feeling down. All these techniques are valid psychological tools that do not require any belief system of gods and goblins. Religion has capitalized on believers by providing a supernatural explanation to those who lack the knowledge of imagination.

Mitchell Thurner yes, God is on the move

Nothing just happens, surely God looks out for us.

@Debbie I assume you've heard the entire sermon?

Debbie are you going to write this comment on everyone’s comment. The time you would on your own ministry..we heard you mam, now give us your verses true prophet..

just what we need, a prayer group on campus. why dont you start a voodo club as well.

Jasmine Joseph me as well. You certainly are not alone💜❤️.

Same here Miss Jasmine. Ouch!

Girl, YOU? 😥 I so needed this

You are a beautiful person and a soul who loves the Lord. I gotta feeling that you are going to do just fine and please the Lord, with mighty Praise & Worship! See You In Heaven 💗 God Blessings Always 💗

it takes time to create an imaginary friend that you can really trust.

@@bradcrampton8920 imaginary?

but you never will because it is an impossible endeavor.

@@bradcrampton8920 Matthew 19:26 “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Prayer is always for God primarily, for us and our good for sure - always. But all for God and his glory - always. I pray such sweet time with the Lord, oh how He loves to hear from His children!

How come the studies that have been done on prayer conclude that it has no effect?

@@bradcrampton8920 which studies are these?

@ I am not getting you. Please explain further.

@@kylealexandermurphy1490 what do you mean primarily for God?

Me too!!!

I fall into the same mental trap May Gods blessing and the Holy Spirit keep us in truth.

yes, he watches us have sex and shit. pervert.

@@bradcrampton8920 This God, he beholds the evil and the good.

@@myballsitchsomethingfierce6319 this god, one of many and all of them imagined.

@@bradcrampton8920 Why do you think that?

@@Knighty-hr2dw because god is omnipresent and perverted. read your bible.

This hit me in the gut

Yes! It even hurts when unrelated people in church do it. Its like a disease and I cannot figure it out. I long for the days (and one former church, Nazarene) of the first church starting on Pentecost. They all lived and cared for each other. I think they wd never dream of doing that

Gerri Stratton I think people have lost their way. They don’t take God’s word literally when he says we will be with him in heaven for eternity. More people need to be taught to treasure up the joy we will have in the next life, like Jesus did when he was in despair before the crucifixion, how he picked himself up with the promise God made. Just wanted to share lol.

imagine your imaginary friend feeling sad. that's god.

@1oddtexan Obviously I don't accept the "gift" and I make lite of the lord because he is invisible and inactive which pretty much means he is not here. He is so similar to childhood imaginary friends that it is a bit eerie.

it's hopeless because it is a mental fabrication.

@Jon Singleton how come?

But why worry if once saved always saved? It's seems as do Calvinists preachers preach against its own doctrine Calvinism.

Yes, I thank God for Pastor Piper

No, your salvation has nothing to do with your works

Your salvation depends on Jesús christ sacrifice

HELP FROM A BOOK

kenneth Isakson What’s the name of the book?

he has really developed a strong character in his mind that he thinks is god. you can do it too.

@Tina A He is pastor John Piper.

yer welcome

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. 2 Timothy 4:3‭-‬4. I think that time is upon us.

what you are doing wrong is not thinking with a modicum of skeptical inquiry.

the opposite of sin is virtue. So, virtue keeps you from praying. makes sense in an upside down world that we do not inhabit.

prayer is an ineffective method of mind control

@Debbie but he is right, isnt he? for we all need to eat and drink of god's word daily for we wont make it without him, and has not jesus that man does not live by bread alone but by every word which proceeds from the father? as experience has taught and that is something that unbelievers will never understand unless god draws them near!!

@Debbie so no he is not wrong as experiance in the word of god has taught him this and i can also vouch for this. For man without god is a miserable hopeless creature whom the host of heaven even feel pity upon, wake up!!!

@@anonviewer4201 Why did god make gays then hate on them ?

@@anonviewer4201 you claim your god created everything.. oh ok except gays tsunamis and earthquakes. get a grip and grow up. goddizm.. the religion of pick and choose to suit.

Who decided what a sin was ? the single reference book you lot use written by illiterate cave dwellers ? Ope my mind... to what ? one theory written in one book. thats closing my mind.

You are still a sinner. We are all still sinners...yet we are saved because we have accepted that Jesus paid the penalty for all our sins; the ones committed in the past AND the ones we'll commit in the future. We are not perfect yet but the Holy Spirit is the first gift to us promised so that we can believe that he can be trusted that we will and are being made perfect. So we are still sinners yet in Christ we are not condemned.

do you have diarrhea?

When you set aside time to pray, you are able to pray in earnest as your mind is not busy with other things. Take your example from Christ. Jesus went to pray at the mount of olives habitually (Luk 22:39), he also asked his disciples if they could not watch with him for 1 hour. But do not listen to anyone, do some study on prayer and you will find that a daily dedicated time with God in prayer is to be desired

@@eugeneferreira6951 jesus is a made up person

Once you've been in His presence, you will never say that again .....

@@eugeneferreira6951 I've been in his presence. It is self psychological manipulation.

I figure why pray, yer just messing up the plan.

You said it's the only correct prayer, yet the Lord had a lot more to add than Thy Will be done. So His prayer isn't correct then?

@@BloodBoughtMinistries same as fred, my imaginary friend

Get a grip you weak excuse for a human being. Listen to yourself, there's no little voice there listening to you.If god was real, he'd reveal himself to EVERYONE at the same time put it to rest... Simple. Yes i know he moves in mysterious ways, but he could nip in on a Sunday after church eh...

Prayer is not a "performance". There is no right or wrong way to pray. It's about being honest with your feelings and laying everything before him. Then we give up our will to his will and trust that he loves us more than we love ourselves and knows best.

Many many times have I seen prayer answered, both little requests and big. God has never let me down but these have to be requests that align with his will. People let me down all the time but even when I doubt, God has never let me down. The trick is sometimes recognizing when God has answered a prayer and thanking him afterwards. Some little things I forget that I had prayed for, and then I thank him and smile at how amazing he is. How do you know it's him? It's too precise, the timing was too perfect, everything just "fell into place" so that it had to be him. You just know.

who are you?

@@guzlemuzle I AM A PREACHER IN MY CHURCH FROM INDIA

It does all this but can't seem to have any effect when studied by science. God does seem to be known for encouraging knowledge.

What other reference books have you used to corroborate your claims ?

Chistoso Mike the flesh is in constant battle to want to sin. Having to constantly meditate in order to not fall into sin