prayer

God's will - how to interpret God's response to our request

Do animals pray? They don't. And it's exactly the same zero effect that prayers asking for advice have when we assume in advance that we won't even do God's will when it conflicts with our own.

Many of us, when we have a problem or make an important decision in life, ask God in prayer for an answer on how to proceed. Once we get that answer, what do we mostly do? We don't follow God's

Why are there curses and wishes for evil in the prayers and psalms
interpretation

In Scripture, we repeatedly encounter verses in which the author curses the wicked and prays for their extermination. Among the psalms, Psalm 109 leads the way, in which we read, among other things:

"(6) Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand. (7) When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.

Nehemiah prays to God
beautiful example of prayer

Prayer to God is something wonderful, we can send our thanks and requests directly to the Creator. We don't need any human intermediary or angel for this. Every loving Father wants to talk to his children, and so does God want us to talk to him. The Bible contains a multitude of prayers addressed to God and not a single one addressed to God through a human intermediary, including a dead person. An

Is praying to people right and in line with the teachings of Scripture?

Definitely NO. In the entire Bible you will not find a single sentence in which a servant of God prays to another person, including one who has already died. So why do Catholic churches so persistently urge people to pray to saints, the dead, the Pope, etc.?

Let's look at such a situation.

The Lord God rescues the Israelites and leads them out of Egypt. During their