The Prayer Option To Bring Back Our Girls
Earlier today, a religious friend of mine sent the following broadcast message on the Blackberry Messenger Platform;
"For those who can, pls spare a moment every evening in prayer for the missing girls using Isaiah 49 vs 24 to 26 until they are returned home. If our government is powerless we know for a fact that our God is not."
So I looked it up.
The King James version of verse 25 says:
"But thus says the Lord; Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children."
Encouraging material. However, the same book of Isaiah has a notable revelation in chapter 45, verse 7, which says;
"I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things."
Moving away from Isaiah to the book of Ephesians, chapter 1 verse 11 says the following:
"In him we were chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will."
One literal interpretation begets another.
Essentially; The instruction is to pray to a Supernatural being to deliver innocent children from a situation (Isaiah 49: 25) created by that same Supernatural being (Isaiah 45:7) who made it happen because that's part of its "will." (Ephesians 1:11).
I've always wondered the following:
1) Is prayer meant to alert a deity to a situation that it isn't already aware of?
2) Is prayer meant to change an outcome already predetermined by said deity?
If all the girls are rescued, Ephesians 1:11 says it was predestined.
If all the girls are not rescued, Ephesians 1:11 also says it was predestined
The scripture plays both sides of the same coin whose outcome is unknown to you and I but satisfies either one eventually. In the grand scheme of things, this leaves no room for prayer.
However, the Nigerian government has failed its people. Its ineffectiveness has left us helpless and desperate. Some have nothing else but prayer. It's the only option they have
"For those who can, pls spare a moment every evening in prayer for the missing girls using Isaiah 49 vs 24 to 26 until they are returned home. If our government is powerless we know for a fact that our God is not."
So I looked it up.
The King James version of verse 25 says:
"But thus says the Lord; Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children."
Encouraging material. However, the same book of Isaiah has a notable revelation in chapter 45, verse 7, which says;
"I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things."
Moving away from Isaiah to the book of Ephesians, chapter 1 verse 11 says the following:
"In him we were chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will."
One literal interpretation begets another.
Essentially; The instruction is to pray to a Supernatural being to deliver innocent children from a situation (Isaiah 49: 25) created by that same Supernatural being (Isaiah 45:7) who made it happen because that's part of its "will." (Ephesians 1:11).
I've always wondered the following:
1) Is prayer meant to alert a deity to a situation that it isn't already aware of?
2) Is prayer meant to change an outcome already predetermined by said deity?
If all the girls are rescued, Ephesians 1:11 says it was predestined.
If all the girls are not rescued, Ephesians 1:11 also says it was predestined
The scripture plays both sides of the same coin whose outcome is unknown to you and I but satisfies either one eventually. In the grand scheme of things, this leaves no room for prayer.
However, the Nigerian government has failed its people. Its ineffectiveness has left us helpless and desperate. Some have nothing else but prayer. It's the only option they have
#BringBackOurGirls
