@markchironna Sometimes the trouble is the only thing that can lead us in His direction because we become so stubborn that even if a donkey were to speak to us, we will actually talk back. ๐
Trouble does not always produce prayer. Sometimes it produces silence, and that kind of silence is not holy. There is a difference between suffering, which can still turn toward God, and the kind of affliction which grinds down the capacity to attend to anything at all. Prayer, at its basic core, is made of attention. Remove attention and you have a person who wants to pray and cannot, and that person is not faithless. Any pastor worth their salt, who has sat with the truly crushed, has watched it happen. We need to be circumspect and stop promising the people in our care that pain reliably deepens them, because sometimes it flattens them, and the flock of God needs us to know that.
@markchironna Amen. Itโs a reflection of the spiritual disposition of the heart prophet. I know you know that. But we need a rude awakening in the house of God.
@markchironna Amen!! Prophet! But doesnโt it take a level of acknowledgment and submission to grace of God, knowing that we are humans in the hands the infinite potter?
@markchironna Amen prophet!! A fragmented mindset finds it difficult to stay aligned with the Eternal, the Eternal dwells in unison as you have thought as The Father, Son and Holy Spirit. As a means of refreshing the soul, I have a request, can you sing Amen!
Do not find a reason to worship God, worship Him for who He is. If there is a reason to worship Him, what happens when there is no reason. It is not about what He does for you, He is our Father, it is about who He is.