PUSH!

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Pray
Until
Something
Happens!

Now, that's the kind of PUSH we need around here! (Thank you to Jim Lo for the thought.)

Comments

  1. Anonymous12:54 PM

    You can pray all you want, but nothing will happen until you get off of your duff and try.

    He will help you if you try, but expects at least some effort on your part.

    Your prayers and your will may not be his plan and his will for your life.

    Pray for forgivness, read the bible with a open heart.

    If you do this, it will show you what the best path is for you.

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  2. Mark O Wilson8:00 PM

    yeah -- but most folk I know do a whole lot more pushin' than they do prayin'

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  3. Anonymous12:03 PM

    Walt and Mark,

    You are both correct. We need the praying to find God's Will. Then we need to get 'off our duffs' and push to get God's (not our) agenda accomplished.

    It is often easy to mistake our desires for God's Will.

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  4. Anonymous4:25 PM

    You are correct Walt.

    We had a test to take that I was not prepared for. Things were going on in my life that did not give me the time to study like I should.

    I did pray and got a few of my friends to also pray that somehow, God would let me pass this test.

    Guess what! I failed by a mile.
    So Walt what you said is true.

    I did not pray "If it is your will" then let me pass the test.

    My prayer was more or less a challenge to God to see if he could do it. My will-not his will was my main concern.


    Pray-Until-Something-Happens
    Before you PUSH, you need to take the brake off.

    Pray-Until-Something-Happens
    Should be
    Prepare- then - PUSH

    I now know better and will prepare before the next test in life.

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