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In such a case they say that God can either say, WAIT, YES, or NO to prayers. So when He says yes, it means that your prayers are answered and when He says wait, you then need patience (which is one of the fruits of the Holy Spirit), and when He says No, it means that one will consequently suffocate in hope and patience. This is a church man’s technique to believing God which has today destroyed many homes.
There are people that are not destined to have a child no matter how they pray and fast. If they claim all the biblical promises, it cannot change the will of nature. There are also some that are destined not to marry; if they do, they will continue to live in disunity, which is still part of their inner destiny in conscious life. Therefore, any answered prayer is the one ordained and destined to come through. After all, there are things one doesn’t pray for that come ones way, why do they come? Nature has ordained them! No amount of noisemaking in the church can change nature. What the church man considers to be an answer to prayer is what God had ordained to come true, so the coincidence of your prayer and the purported answer is the miracle that gives the earthly shepherd daily promotion; this is on one hand.
For instance, if God has decided to give you a cup of water today by destiny and you want to start praying for this cup of water by tomorrow, and eventually the cup of water is on your table, will you call it an answered prayer? Yes, it is because desire itself is prayer, this is the naïve voice of the earthly shepherd who would not want to lose his members to knowledge and wisdom. You fail to realise that there are so many things you don’t desire that come your way and a lot too you desire that fail to come true. I’m discussing the philosophy of prayer.
The case of Sarah is very clear. She lied, thereby committing a serious religious sin. But her sin, which was not confessed anywhere, was consequently forgiven because her destiny was indeed speaking for her own good. Her sin was in line with her destiny, as such her destiny overcame the power of her sin. Destiny, which is the principal driver of human choice and will, can be traced to all that is holy; that is why it is not possible for any religious person to pray himself/herself into heaven when he/she is not destined or ordained to be in heaven. Heaven, therefore, becomes a destined home for destined people as Christ himself puts it: “Come ye blessed of my father inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundations of the world” Matt 25:34.
The best prayer, therefore, is to do good to all that come across your way. If you turn away from the poor, we shall not be ready to receive the reward of Him who blesses the poor. “Thy will be done O God…” simply means, let the voice of my oracle of destiny speak at the appointed time of my will of life. It is with this understanding we can identify the subtle voice of destiny that whispers to all men when they are asleep to lead them to the right path. May the will of God be done! May the destiny of all speak! And may the path leading you to your divine home be understood by you on time so that you will not be deceived by those who have no part in the light of divine destiny.
Hope you are aware that prayer does not forgive sin and that God alone does, in accordance with ones ontological and primordial destiny. Being sorry for wrongdoing is but one step towards reform and the very easiest step. The next and great step required by wisdom is the taste of our sincerity. Prayer is not to be used as a confessional to cancel sin. Such an error would impede true religion. Sin is forgiven only as it is destroyed allegorically by Christ. If prayer nourishes the belief that sin is canceled and that man is made better mainly by praying, prayer then becomes evil, for he grows worse who continues in sin because he fancies himself forgiven.
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Sins are forgiven to those who do not confess and can also be forgiven to those who confess, all of these depend on ones initial-cum-subjective agreement with the infinite. He said, “Blessed are those whose sins are forgiven and those whose iniquities are covered”. This foregoing statement is in tandem with one’s destiny and “will” of life, for God does not foresee or foreknow in the strict sense. Writing on Eschatology: A Time For Eternity (Catholic Faith Magazine, May to June 1999), Mark Brumley gives the following insight into the point alluded above in what will be called Free Will Theodicy. God, being outside time, does not foresee or foreknow in the strict sense. For foreseeing or foreknowing, implying seeing or knowing in advance. And in advance implies ahead of time. Since God is beyond time, He simply “sees” or “knows” from his vintage point of eternity, so to speak, what you are doing, at all points in your existence, not what you would do. All moments of your life are equally present to God.
Brumley concludes the argument by saying that just as your freedom is not impeded by my seeing or knowing what you are doing now, neither is it by God seeing or knowing it. The difference, of course, is that, for God, all moments of your life are equally available, whereas for me travelling in time with you, I experience only one moment of knowing. He knows perfectly yet freely that is consequent freedom on both the side of man and God himself. We know imperfectly yet freely and authentically. In both cases, knowledge is not constitutive but epistemological.
William Lane Craig, while making reference to Stuart Heckett’s book: The Resurrection of Theism (Chicago: Moody press, 1957), summarizes this argument in the statement that God could know the content of all knowledge: past, present and future- in a simultaneous and eternal intuition. Indeed he apprehends the whole content of the temporary series in a single eternal intuition, just as the reader can analogously apprehend all the parts of a circle in a single sensory intuition. This being that God does not interfere with our liberty. But he does have a “visio” of all reality, including the being and actions of human beings, without destroying human liberty, hence certain events are determined by Him because He is Actus Purus (Pure Being).
The entire issue here is that God does not interfere with our human volition, which is programmed and organized within the self. But on the other hand, the infinite past, present and future and subsequent activities can only be known by He who orders it in its esoteric nature. So, having programmed events in subjective chronology and covering man with the vein of ignorance, which enables man to make effort within the provision of religious credo that in turn gives rise to religious rituals and sacrifices in order to unveil the mask of ignorance, man is thus bewildered. As a result of this, man thinks he can command God and receive something through Him via much supplication and worship. God is above all things. Man seeks to receive what was naturally given to him without knowing that the higher versions of him (man) are what he seeks for. Man is withholding what he seeks through ignorance.
The danger from prayer is that it may lead us into temptation. By it we may become involuntary hypocrites, altering desires which are not real and consoling ourselves in the midst of sins with the recollection that we have prayed over it or mean to ask forgiveness at some later day. Hypocrisy is fatal to religion. The test of all prayers lie in the answer to these questions: do we love our neighbors better because of this asking? Do we pursue the old selfishness, satisfied with having prayed for something better, though we give no evidence of the sincerity of our request by living consistently with our prayer? If selfishness has given place to kindness, we shall regard our neighbors unselfishly, and bless them that course us, but we shall never meet this great duty simply by asking that it may be done. There is a cross to be taken up before we can enjoy the fruition of our hope and faith.
