'I'll pray for you; please pray for me.'
I really cannot stand any of these.
Firstly, most people who promise to pray for you.
Use it casually as a greeting, you know that too!
I refrain from making such promises.
Especially if the person is anonymous.
There are so many better alternatives.
But then, choice of words is your prerogative.
I only say 'I'll pray for you',
when I'm certain I'll see it through.
But most people are just momentarily pleasing.
And if you are naïve, you'll find that appealing.
Why can't you just pray for yourself?
God's not partial; go ring His doorbell.
He can hear you as much as He hears some pastor.
All of creation is recognized by the master.
Besides if you make it a habit and become a preacher-seeker.
You're wasting your time building camaraderie with mere teachers.
Seek Him first and the kingdom of God.
Why patronize mortals so much and applaud?
It's great to listen to a preaching and learn from them.
But, pray for yourself; use some discernment.
Many are wolves in sheep clothing.
While you empty on them your life savings.
And many times, people just pray a wrong prayer.
You could be limiting God, so beware!
Besides, words have so much power.
Someone else over your life and situations to empower.
If you're the one who consented.
Their words for you will be represented.
Nobody likes to give away attorney of power.
And if they do, only to someone they trust at that hour.
There are many who secretly resent and covet, all so connivingly.
Until your last breath you may never know because it's done convincingly.
If the heart and the prayer does not match.
Those vibes they're letting out may be a dangerous batch.
Especially if you're the one who has empowered them.
By pleading and requesting, giving away your consent.
Only ask people you absolutely trust to pray for you.
And please stop making such fake promises too.
And when you ask multiple people and the whole world to pray.
They keep discussing your problems, creating negativity that way.
Remember, I said words have power. They're discussing and elevating your problem.
When you were supposed to magnify God, whom you've isolated in another column.
Besides, all they could be doing is just gossiping.
It's extremely dangerous, to the wrong persons to be vomiting.
Even if their intention is good, they could be praying with human understanding.
It could be a wrong prayer and God with boundaries, you'll be limiting.
So just make it a habit to pray for yourself.
Your sentences don't have to be perfect; just make it heartfelt.
And I pray that God in all His wisdom and kindness...
...may cure you of this bad habit and blindness!
-RUELHA
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Thank you Umi 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Thank you Ashish. 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Rue, sending you song prayer How Great Thou Art(feat Lauren Daigle) – Hillsong UNITED 💓
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OOh I love this praise and worship hymn. It’s lovely. 🙂 I used to have it saved on my phone and played it so often.
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This post is pure feeling. Take care and stay well my Indian orchid!
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Thank you so much, David. 🙂
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Oh dear Ru, you wrote my heart out!! 😘
Even I wonder why would people don’t trust on their prayers and go behind preachers as if they are our Intermediators. A beautiful reminder to me. Thank you dear Ru for always sharing beautiful poems with us 😍😍
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I’m so glad this resonates with you, my sweet Preeths. Thank you for always being so supportive and saying the nicest things, lil one. 🙂 🙂 xoxo
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A powerful point made!! Oh and don’t get me started on those who say “Pray for me” with the sincerity of someone reading a Jet Airways safety card. Why say something like that when they are clearly saying it because they believe it sounds pious and righteous 😦 Uufff
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Exactly! Most people just want to sound pious! They let out hundreds of these promises and blessings in a day with absolute disregard and forget it the very instant it is uttered.
Oh man, I sincerely read and knew the Jet Airways safety cards very very well, so close to my heart. 😉 🙂
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Yes, its the insincerity of it that strikes me and sticks in my throat a little.
Haha, me too 😦 Although not as well as you obviously 😉 I suppose I could have said Kingfisher but .. nope lol 😉
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I know, right?! Oh, I knew the Kingfisher safety cards pretty well too. 😉
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Rueee……. So true. Everything you said is absolutely what is there. If only people valued their words the way they valued themselves.
You certainly are in my prayers my dearest.
Love ALWAYS ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Sammmmmmmmmy, my love! My sister from another mother! It’s only natural and predictable for you to agree with me….we’re have that twin connection, na! People say a lot of things!
I know! When we say these words to each other, there’s genuine love, respect and commitment in those words. I’ll never promise to pray for you if I know I’m uncertain or juggling too much. All my promises to you were fulfilled with good thoughts and sooooo much love ….and I am absolutely certain of the times you uttered these word to me too.
Love and Hugs
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Thanks for praying for me strawberry 🍓 🙏 but I don’t pray gor you 🙃🙌
And I pray that God in all His wisdom and kindness… …may cure your of this bad habit and blindness!
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Sumaaaaaaaa, my sweet sweet friend and the only one in the world who calls me Strawberry. Stay happy and blessed.
Hugs and love….xoxo
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These are good points, and you addressed them very well. Among some people–Christians, as you and I know, but also people of other religions–the offer to say a prayer is viewed as genuine care and concern. When both parties are thinking that way, it’s fine. But, as you indicate, sometimes that offer grates on the ears of the recipient–not that they don’t believe in God, but that they don’t consider the promise of a prayer to be very helpful, for the reasons you give. It helps to know how people feel before promising to pray for them. When I promise to pray for someone, I do pray for him or her. I also pray for people without telling them that I am praying for them, if I don’t think they care to know about my prayers. Either way, it’s up to God to sort out his blessings in our lives. He does hear our prayers and answer them–even the prayers we offer for acquaintances and strangers. He does so according to his grace and within his plan, not because of any goodness in the person who speaks the prayer. When we know that a person is hurting, when we have nothing else to offer to ease their pain, it is never wrong to mention that person to God. J.
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Absolutely agreed, Salvageable. You clarified that so gracefully. The expectation of the recipient must be ascertained or at least considered. There are people who put all their hopes hanging on the promise of your prayer. It’s unfair to those people if the feeling/belief is not mutual. We must keep our word and promises, and pray for the people we agreed to pray for …and then leave the rest up to God. Have a blessed day. 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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One of the lessons I remember from my training for hospital visits was to ask the question, “Would you like me to pray with you?” instead of just starting to pray or promising to pray. And the follow-up question was, “What should I include in the prayer?” Even though at the time I was representing the chaplain’s office, the chaplain made it plain that we should not make assumptions about the patient’s desire for prayer, and we should always give the patient the opportunity to guide the content of the prayer. J.
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The words of Jesus: For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them. (Matthew 18:20) Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfilled the law of Christ (Galatians 6:2) We are called as Christians to pray, truly pray for one another, and not just say the words I will pray, we must go to the Throne of God’s Grace to pray for one another. Lord: I come to you to pray for my friend Rue: embrace her with your love and give her your peace, not as the world give but Lord as you will give to her to continue to do what you have called her to do in this world. I also come to your Throne of Grace to pray for all of India during this hard and difficult time with this horrible virus.
In Jesus Name We Pray
Amen
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Eileeeeeeeen, you are such a beautiful soul. Thank you for that lovely prayer that was so genuine. Your prayer definitely soothes my nerves and makes me feel encompassed by grace. I agree with you in prayer, together…for India and the rest of the world as we deal with this horrible pandemic. Amen! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Love and hugs
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Hehe Rarely Does Anyone Say i Pray
For You (me) ‘Funny’ How That Works
Last Time Someone Did They
Prayed i’d Become A
Republican and
Vote For Trump
In the Name Of Jesus
True Some Prayers Are
Inherently Ignorant And Unwittingly
Evil it Seems Yet i Forgive Prayers too Rue
Other than That Just A Positive Comment of I’ll
Pray for You When Someone is Down Does Work
Science Proves it As Long As the Other Person Understands
They Are Being Prayed For With Positive Emotions of Love
Where Understand Equals They Feel Sincere Love That Was
No Where Present When the Person Offered Prayers
For Me Just A Berating Effort That ‘His
God Trump’
Was
Bigger Than
The Light i See Feel
And Sense For Real
True Prayers Will Be Loving
Or Just The Tribal Nature of
Human That Remains Us ‘Verses’ Them..:)
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I kinda disagree on that one Fred. I understand the emotions involved and it does give people peace and comfort. But, there are more genuine and sincere words to choose from…like, “I’m sending you good thoughts/vibes/emotions/positivity/thinking of you etc.” Why promise if the intention is to not fulfil? 😉 That’s just my opinion and preference, Fred.
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SMiles Dear Rue You’d Have
To See it From The
Perspective Of An
Autistic Child Who
Speaks No Words
Yet Genuinely
Prays For
The World
Sincerely
Without One
Iota of So-Called
Biblical Instruction
Do Prayers
Have
To Speak
Words to Work
Of Course Not It
Is In The Eyes Of
The Beholder of
God As Always
Playing Devil’s Advocate
For those who May Be
Reading
Who
Only Believe
In The Scientific
Method Tool For
Measuring Nothing
Close
To
Soul
i For One
Will Pray More
Ways Genuine than
Others
May
Imagine Yet
We All See
Through
Different
Eyes
On The
Other Hand
Don’t Invade
A Bunch of People
On An Island Trying
To Forcefully Convert
Them To
Your Religion
With Prayers
‘Thinking’
You won’t Be
Harmed
For if You
Do And i Don’t
Mean You
Personally
One May
Find That
Perhaps
God Favors
Their ‘Prayers’ More
Life Is LiGHT And
DarK Those Who
Fail
To See in
The DarK Tend To Fall🙏
i Surely Agree
With You Prayers
Should Be Genuine
Yet No One Has
The
Authority
Other Than
God Within to
Teach me How to
Pray All That i Do
Is A Prayer Every
Holy Sacred
Step
And
Word Most
Real Devils Who
Escape Hell Pray
Like
i Do
And i Have
No Idea How
Many Do Yet
One With SMiles😊
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How God Answers Prayers True Story Rue Rewind to the Spring
of 1963 My Mother Is Pacing the Floor of the Living Room of
Our Trailer “God Help me Find my Keys or i am Gonna Be Late”
i am 2 Years Old On the Autism Spectrum And Will Not Be Speaking
Sentences for Another 2 Years at 4 The Answer to my Mother’s Prayer
to God Comes While She Still Frustratingly Searches Every Where For
the Keys in the Living Room i toddle my Way Back to Her Bedroom And Find
The Keys Fallen to the Floor
Beside the
Bed
So What
Drives me to Do this Then
Is it Church No Is it the Bible
No Yes it is Love as Love Naturally
Hurts when it sees the Distress of another
Part of Nature And Does its Best To Resolve
That Distress As All True Heroes Do who Actually
Experience Yes the Emotions and Feelings Associated
With Human Love/Empathy True Not All Children Are Empaths
Without Words to Speak Yet Some Do Answer Prayers Without Words…
Smile Dear Rue Ignorance is More than Deaf And Blind When Love Does Not
Feel
Love
Is Nothing
At All For Real
For the Essence
of the Shell of the
Word Living or Dead NoW As God..:)
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Oops
Forgot
A Moral
(AcTuAlly i
ReMeMBeR)
oF A STory i ReTurn
With The Keys Smiling
Bright As Sunshine Love
Without
A God Damned Word
JusT A LiVinG Tree LoVinG..:)
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I agree with you on those points….Humanity comes before religion. Jesus did command us to love first! Love one another! Love causes no harm, is not evil, self seeking, jealous or conniving. It forgives…easily. Love is powerful. Love is greater. That is what Jesus came to teach us – to love!
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SMiles Sadly As What Often
Happens to Empaths Filled
With Love And Compassion
Driven To Love, Help,
And Take Care Of
Others…. ‘Mother
Teresa’ Said She
Lost “The Gift”
This Faith This Essence
Of Love The Feeling That
Drives Some Humans to
Be Heroes Yes Angels Who
Feel The Needs of Everyone
First Man And Or Woman
The Rest of Nature too
Yes
The
Archetype of
The All Loving Thanks
Giving Forgiving Version
Of Jesus One May Find
In Parts at Least of the
New Testament Remaining
Not Erased Away
For Political Greed
Of Kingdom’s Still to Come
Blessed Are Those Who
Still Love With Actions
Of Compassion When
They Are Drained Of The
Inherent Faith of Love
The Feeling Within
The Empathy
That Separates
Them in Love
From No One FRiEnD
Or Foe Lifting All Up Same
SMiles Dear Rue Blessed Are
Those Most Who Otherwise
Are Born Psychopaths With
No Feelings Of Love And Find
Themselves
In An Environment
That Teaches Lessons
Of Love They Rigidly
Adhere to Like
A Psychopathic
Reformed Serial
Killer Might Use
To Repair Cars
In An Automotive
Shop In This Way
Yes Religion Saves Lives
Too Gardening Love
To Rise in Empty Feeling
Souls Experiencing The
Drained Part of Loving
Soul i Understand
The Value
Of Their
Accomplishment
Without The Breathing
Flame of Love The Faith Within
Blessed Are ‘Reptiles’ Who Love
As Verb At Least With No “Filling”
Of Love Occasionally One Will Find
Them
“in Robes”
Abstaining From
Harming “The Little Ones”
Like “The Automotive Mechanic”
Others Are Proficient Killers
In War Or Surgeons As Such
With Steady Hands that
Have No Ability To Fear
Yes No
Matter
How Cold
Bedside Manner
Is When Delivering
The News Loved ones
Don’t Survive “The Operation”
True Rue We Can’t Afford
To Throw “Babies” Out Based
On What Breathes
Within As one
Doesn’t
Have to
Be Mother
Teresa or the
Archetype of
Jesus Or Buddha
To Save Others too😊
Just Wanted To Be Clear
Love is Not Only A Feeling
Yet Without The Feeling
The Flame Within
We Would Be
More
Reptile Than
Social Mammal
As A Species That’s
An Irrefutable Fact
Putting my “Lab Coat”
Back on
Hehe We
Do Need
Love And
Rationality too
Or Ask A Little
Child Like ‘Our
Priest’ Did When
He Asked A Child
In Mass Last Sunday
Is Love A Feeling And
The Child Didn’t Hesitate
To Say Yes Chances Are
If The
Child
Felt
No Love
He Would Have
No Idea What Love
Is indeed i Visit A Place
Online Where some
Experience
None of The
Feeling Within
And Often Believe
Love is only The
Pleasure of Sex
True Humans
Are increasingly
Gardened This Way
By Culture and This
Leads To All Kinds
Of “Mass Muders”
Of Others
As A Spectrum
Of Course Anyway
The Priest Tried to
Convince the Child
That Love isn’t A Feeling
Like A Two-Year
Old
Child
Won’t Tantrum
When Feeling Grumpy…
SMiles Rue Some Humans
Sadly Aren’t
Born
With All ‘The
Same Ingredients’
i Surely Forgive Them
For What
They Are Missing And
Glad He Still Finds
“A Robe That Fits”
i Went To School With
Him “Feel” Who ‘He’ is
From “The Beginning”…
Some Folks
Adhere
To Instruction
Well Thank God
Rue For that too🙏
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So true Ruelha.
I take my prayers for others seriously as taught by our Gurudeva. After every meditation (morning and evening) we have ten minutes healing service 🙏
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That is beautiful, Ashok. It is nice to know there are a handful of sincere gems out there who still value their words and people’s feelings. Respect to you!
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Lots of love and a big healing hug 🤗
You know these days we have started a special healing service at 12.45 pm too 🙏
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That’s really nice, Ashok. The world and humanity is in need of healing. 🙂
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Very sound. As you know, I wish you well
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Thank you Derrick. I know, you are very kind. 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Your poems are beautiful as like you
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That’s so sweet of you, Saree. Thank you. 🙂
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Praying for India
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Thank you SlimJim. 🙂
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YW
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I agree little sister. We should only say we will pray for someone if we really will.
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Thank you for your concurrence, brother Matt. I don’t like the pretense and false momentary hope many people give in an attempt to just appear nicer.
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