Christian prayer is NOT: 1. To give God information – Matt. 6:8. 2. Telling God what to do – Rom. 11:34. 3. Asking God to engineer a situation to the end we desire. 4. Something we do to please or appease God – Jn. 19:30. 5. A meritorious performance God expects of us; a duty or obligation of obedience. 6. An exercise to make us better, stronger, or more “spiritual.” 7. For therapeutic psychological adjustment, “good feelings.” 8. Self-instruction to gain a knowledge of God’s will. 9. Soliciting more “blessings” or “benefits” from God. 10. An evasion of the problems and anxieties of contemporary existence. 11. Superstitious, mystical or magical trance. 12. A spiritual “power-tool” to employ the “power of prayer.” 13. A discipline or devotional exercise that will lead us to godliness. 14. Demanding our rights before God. 15. Persistence and shameless haranguing until we get what we want. 16. A mechanical ritual or rote formulas. 17. An external religious action, pretentious and ostentatious – Matt. 6:5, 6. 18. Verbosity of meaningless repetition – Matt. 6:7. 19. A religious activity executed “on command” – litanies, rosaries, etc. 20. Prescribed by place, time or procedure.
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#1 · June 17, 2004, 3:58 pm

Posted by: angelanash4 <angelanash4@...>

My understanding of this may be wrong.....so please clarify if it is..but this man by the name of Ray comfort, gave this Satan worshipper money and candy? If this is how it is..then he is wrong. dead wrong. He just supported satans ministry by doing that!
I am sorry if this seems ugly. but that is how is see this.
blessings,
Angela

 

 

 

The Church of Satan
-- By Ray Comfort
This week I had the interesting experience of interviewing a representative from the "Church of Satan." One of their tenants is to be friendly to anyone they meet...but if that person offends them, they are to "destroy" them. It gave me great consolation to know that I had a wonderful camera crew with me--guys that were not only buff, but also faithful men of God. I was confident that if a knife was pulled and I was attacked during the interview...they would make sure that it was filmed from every angle.

Please pray for Jack's salvation.After we filmed I gave the man a box of chocolates and a financial gift, for his time. The money was slipped into a butterfly tract. He was a professing atheist, and emailed later saying, "... please tell [Ray] his butterfly gave us quite a surprise as [we merged] onto the freeway. I almost got to commune with God, but probably not in the way that was intended. But afterwards we had a good laugh and we always appreciate a little mirth." 

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