One of the dangers in theology is that good truths can be overstretched until they produce unbiblical conclusions.
Yes, God has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in Christ (Ephesians 1:3), and yes, He has given us everything we need for life and godliness (2 Peter 1:3). But to conclude from that that "God is no longer in the business of answering prayers" goes beyond what Scripture teaches.
If "everything has been given already" means God no longer answers prayer, then what do we do with the many prayers God answered after Christ's death, resurrection, and ascension?
The early church prayed, and God answered (Acts 4:31). The church prayed for Peter, and God delivered him from prison (Acts 12:5–11). Paul prayed concerning his thorn in the flesh, and God answered him (2 Corinthians 12:8–9). James still tells believers, "You do not have because you do not ask" (James 4:2).
Has God changed? Certainly not.
Scripture also records God responding to the cries of unbelievers. Cornelius' prayers came up as a memorial before God before he became a Christian (Acts 10:1–4). The people of Nineveh cried to God, and He relented from the judgment He had announced (Jonah 3:5–10).
God's provision in Christ and God's answering of prayer are not competing truths they are both biblical. We must be careful not to stretch one truth so far that we end up denying another. The whole counsel of Scripture, not a single verse isolated from the rest, should shape our theology.
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JULIOUS MALEMA:
"You closed a shop that employed five people. Tell me, how many jobs have you created?"
THIS IS A MUST-WATCH 5-MINUTE VIDEO. IT REVEALS THE TRUTH ABOUT SOUTH AFRICA.
South Africa is Africa's biggest economy. Yet crowds are dragging foreigners from their homes. 13,000 deported in two weeks.
Visas were sold to the highest bidder. Undocumented workers exploited for cheap labour. Unemployment at 32.7%.
If the state sold the border and employers pocketed the cheap labour, who is really responsible for South Africa's broken economy?
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Jaylen Brown says he used the NBA Players Association instead of hiring an agent for the NBA Draft because they're paid to help players
“When I entered the draft, I didn't have an agent. I'm probably the highest picked selected ever that didn't enter with an agent. When I was evaluating, I went through the whole process and sat with a bunch of people, and what they was offering I ain't really need. It was kind of already slotted, so I leaned on the union a lot more”
“A lot of the agents came and was like, ‘Yeah, we'll move you to L.A. We'll get you a trainer, put some money in your pocket,’ and I was like, ‘For what? Do I gotta give the money back?’ They was like, ‘Nah, but standard agent fee is 4%.’ I'm starting to do the math, and a house, car, and all that, whatever he was offering, is a lot less than what 4% would have been”
“Long story short, the math wasn't mathing for me. I ended up being the third pick. I think because I came in like that, a lot of people, I think it was the agents, they tried to slander my name a little bit, put it in the media that he's too this, he's too that. Ended up backfiring. It all worked out in the end”
“With the union, we pay dues. All the players in the NBA pay dues. We all pay like $10,000 out of our salary that goes to hiring lawyers, hiring staff, CEO, everything that you need to lead a company that works for us. So all of that is our resources that we all pay for, that we agree to. Once I learned that, I just started using it”
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SOUTH AFRICA…
The Church in Africa, especially the Church in Nigeria, must arise and travail for the Church in South Africa.
South Africa is no longer merely a nation. It has become a gate. A prophetic demonstration gate.
A territory where the spirit of the age is testing the architecture of a New Africa before exporting it across the continent.
Do not mistake what you are seeing. Nations are not only conquered by armies. They are first captured by ideas.
The future has chosen South Africa as an experimental field. A laboratory where new definitions of family, morality, governance, economics, worship, identity and human purpose are being normalized until they become unquestionable.
The intention is to produce an Africa that no longer needs GOD, only systems. An Africa that no longer bows to CHRIST, but bows to progress.
An Africa where efficiency replaces holiness, intelligence replaces wisdom, technology replaces dependence, and abundance replaces righteousness.
This is not modernization. This is a replacement project. The old foundations are being dismantled while the masses celebrate development.
What many call advancement is, in many cases, the careful removal of every structure that once made GOD necessary.
The chaos you presently see in South Africa will settle. But it will settle into an entirely different civilization.
When the dust finally disappears, many will discover that they did not merely survive a season of instability.
They entered another age. An age where CHRIST is tolerated but no longer enthroned.
An age where the Church is permitted to exist, provided she no longer possesses prophetic authority. An age where religion is welcomed, but LORDSHIP is resisted.
This is why the Church must pray. Not because South Africa is weak. But because gates determine what enters continents.
If the gate falls, the territory behind it will eventually drink from the same river. Nigeria must not watch carelessly.
Nigeria is another template nation. Another prophetic gate. Another territory whose future is being negotiated before the eyes of a sleeping Church.
The methodology may differ. The political Style may differ. The economic strategy may differ.
But the destination is the same. To produce a civilization that can flourish without acknowledging GOD.
To create a generation that possesses everything except the fear of the LORD. To redefine freedom until rebellion becomes a virtue.
To redefine tolerance until truth becomes violence. To redefine prosperity until worship becomes unnecessary. To redefine humanity until man forgets he was made in the image of GOD.
Church, wake up. What is happening across Africa is not merely political. It is priestly. Altars are contending. Spirits are legislating.
Principalities are negotiating the destiny of nations while the Church debates irrelevancies.
There is a reason darkness fights so hard for gates. Whoever controls the gate eventually influences the continent.
If South Africa becomes the successful prototype, the model will be replicated. If Nigeria falls, the ripple will shake generations.
This is why intercession is no longer optional. We are not merely preserving countries. We are contending for the inheritance of CHRIST.
Africa does not belong to economists. Africa does not belong to politicians. Africa does not belong to global systems. Africa belongs to JESUS CHRIST.
The Church must return to her knees before she is forced to live under a civilization she failed to confront in prayer.
History is being rewritten. The spirits behind Babylon are speaking again. The towers are rising again.
The image is being erected again. Will there still be men who refuse to bow? Or will the Church become so intoxicated with the language of the future that she forgets the Ancient of Days?
The battle has never been for a land. It has always been for worship. And every nation eventually becomes the reflection of the altar that prevails within it.