Desperate for more of God? Don't know how to get it? Longing to talk to Him more but don't know how? Or maybe you're wondering what is prayer anyway? Does it work? How do you do it? What do you pray about?

These short guides about prayer, we hope will take you closer to God and nearer Him in His throne room.

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Dangerous Prayers: 1. What Is A Dangerous Prayer?

I don’t know whether I’ve coined this phrase myself but it is certainly one I use to talk about certain prayers I have prayed and when talking to friends about prayers they pray. So what are dangerous prayers?

Dangerous prayers are the ones you pray with all sincerity of heart but perhaps don’t fully understand the consequences of what you are asking for. This is not necessarily a bad thing. When we ask God to change us I think that often if we knew the journey to get to that place of transformation we may never ask.

Dangerous prayers are the ones you pray and then half way through perhaps the most difficult time of your life you suddenly have the revelation that you actually asked God to help you grow in a certain area and this was His answer.

Don’t let this make you afraid to pray, but be aware that the consequences to our prayer’s are not always what we think they should be. There is a verse in Isaiah that tells us why,

“‘For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are my ways your ways,’ says the Lord, ‘for as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.”’
Isaiah 55: 8-9

Sara Jukes

2005-02-28

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Posted by Klas in Sweden @ 11:37 on Jul 27 2005

I belive that what ever we ask for its never be reality, if its not to His honor, and His blessing..rigth?
An example: "Let me become one with You Lord, 100%" then I got an answer, "I AM, and your Holy Spirit will guide you until we see eachother again in heaven." By the time I asked this I were 4yr , and now I never been closer, and he tells me that if get any closer it has to be in heaven.. every one has until now told me off in this, and sed it was a Dangerus prayer.. I love Him more by the minute.. ;)

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Posted by Sue Mitchell @ 19:21 on Jun 25 2005

we were at cell group the other night and looking at how God has an amazing plan for us. Someone shared about a place where they'd had a big mission and hundreds were saved and miracles performed. A few years later the town decided to have another mission. THe guy came, preached and taught for 3 weeks but left disappointed! This time only one 12 year old boy became a Christian! But God's plan was for greatness! The boy was called Billy Graham...

The results we see are not the whole picture. God's ways, God's thoughts, are not ours.

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