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If you are earnest, I think your prayers will be answered.  Please have faith; it will be rewarded.  Perhaps you are being taught patience and courage by confronting your fear and urgency.

Jesus literally died for everyone, what more does he have to prove? 

Turncoat said: 

Jesus literally died for everyone, what more does he have to prove? 

 Rude, but it's a good point.

I'm just gonna vent really quickly 

God and all his lil bum ass versions like Jesus or what over here doing absolutely nothing and taking all the fucking credit. The fucking audacity.

I see a homeless person rifling through trash looking through take out containers and food bags for what i assume is food right? So I'm like 'help your fellow man cos its your responsibility to help those in need and also something something golden rule's so I go and give this man my food i had just bought, chicken marsala with broccoli and garlic bread and he's like super happy so I give him my food and he goes 

"Thank you, I prayed and God provides"

Like no, bro that was me. That ain't an act of god. If god provides why haven't you been praying for a way out of homeless? Can god not provide you a house? You not praying enough? Why the fuck is he gonna bum the food credit off of me?? God can't throw you a nice meal? You gonna give him credit for something someone else did??

So anyway the probably had schizophrenia- started telling about the spiders underneath his skin.

Buttered Toast said: 

Turncoat said: 

Jesus literally died for everyone, what more does he have to prove? 

 Rude, but it's a good point.

Just saying she's addressing Jesus as if He owes her anything, when He is the spokesperson for God, the Creator who made her and the rest of us in the first place. 

For as much struggle as she's going through, and for as much as The Bible says to put your all into leaning on God in lieu of carrying yourself, this technically is a depressed form of entitlement. Jesus has done so much already, demanding He do more isn't really right either. 

Both bring up the misplacement of gratitude or "credit"...

Even in praying for personal strength or asking for guidance and wisdom, the fulfillment of this wishful prayer neglects how the person enabled themselves into successful action.  Jesus admonished this sort of prayer.  I believe he directed prayer to be more about contrition, forgiveness and gratitude.  Also, this is why faith is rewarded, but often it's the price that gets forgotten.  Forgiveness might be free, but wisdom and growth surely aren't.

Buttered Toast said: 

I believe he directed prayer to be more about contrition, forgiveness and gratitude.

Also concern over another's wellbeing, it's often mentioned how it's normal to pray over another's outcomes. 

Forgiveness might be free, but wisdom and growth surely aren't.

Forgiveness in this case is effectively a tool to help people move on rather than be stuck dwelling over the same loops and patterns. If anything taking forgiveness towards a gluttonous excess can have the opposite effect. 

Prayer is probably best considered as a practice of mantra; a meditative tool.  It shows you your own mind, while offering a platform to consider changing it.