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savedbygrace71
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I have a question and I’m not entirely sure how to put it into words.
I have quite a few friends and acquaintances who are not believing Christians, but many more who are. On a nearly daily basis, someone posts on our mom’s group or on FB a concern, someone who is ill, something that has happened in the world etc. The responses from the Christians are generally along the lines of “you will be in my prayers” or “I’m praying for you” or “may God guide the surgeon’s hands” etc etc. The non Christians will say, “I’m thinking of you!” or “I hope things start to get better!” and so on.
Right now in our community there is a young girl dying of brain cancer. Many of us have pulled together as a prayer group, and a larger group has formed to keep up with her treatments and progress. She took a bad turn for the worse yesterday and has been intubated due to an influenza infection; it doesn’t look good. All over her page and my friends’ facebook pages, are comments to the effect of we all need to pray hard today. Those who are not Christian are saying, “good thoughts to come her way.”
So here at last is my question. If someone is not a believing Christian, but spends the day deep in thought for healing of a particular person, does that amount to the same as a fully intentioned prayer? Where if I sit down and speak directly to God, and my friend speaks to no one but in her head, God will hear her anyway even if she doesn’t accept that as truth, right?
My point is, I am praying that all the “thoughts” are also helping this little girl. Although in the end her condition is terminal, we all know the power of prayer. I don’t want the positive thoughts to be for nothing. Does that make sense?
I have quite a few friends and acquaintances who are not believing Christians, but many more who are. On a nearly daily basis, someone posts on our mom’s group or on FB a concern, someone who is ill, something that has happened in the world etc. The responses from the Christians are generally along the lines of “you will be in my prayers” or “I’m praying for you” or “may God guide the surgeon’s hands” etc etc. The non Christians will say, “I’m thinking of you!” or “I hope things start to get better!” and so on.
Right now in our community there is a young girl dying of brain cancer. Many of us have pulled together as a prayer group, and a larger group has formed to keep up with her treatments and progress. She took a bad turn for the worse yesterday and has been intubated due to an influenza infection; it doesn’t look good. All over her page and my friends’ facebook pages, are comments to the effect of we all need to pray hard today. Those who are not Christian are saying, “good thoughts to come her way.”
So here at last is my question. If someone is not a believing Christian, but spends the day deep in thought for healing of a particular person, does that amount to the same as a fully intentioned prayer? Where if I sit down and speak directly to God, and my friend speaks to no one but in her head, God will hear her anyway even if she doesn’t accept that as truth, right?
My point is, I am praying that all the “thoughts” are also helping this little girl. Although in the end her condition is terminal, we all know the power of prayer. I don’t want the positive thoughts to be for nothing. Does that make sense?