Why I'm Such a "#DebbieDowner" when People Ask Friends for their 'Prayers' - Because 'Simple Prayer' is a #TrickOfTheDevil @prayerDotOrg @OfficialSGIUSA @GTFJack #Trick

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I'm starting this 'wrong.' I'm starting with "the crime" and not with 'the well-intention-ed accomplices (who watch the crime take place and who allow it & even order the evil-doers to commit it again)'.

Because 'what's important right now' (or 'the point I'm making in this entry') is not 'how the accomplices perform their part,' but it's 'how The Criminal tricks them into letting him.'

The Complicity (I'll 'witness against' below 'the dictiontecture of "Trick"') is an imaginary power that people call "Prayer." The Criminal commits the crime by 'taking credit for answering them.'

Debbie Downer (a character made
famous by Rachel Dratch)

If people ever commented on this post, they'd probably 'interrupt' there and interject, "But The Criminal don't answer our prayers, God/Jesus/ The-Holy-Spirit does!" To which my 'weak flesh'-response would be something like, 'Oh no he doesn't!'

But a more-agreeable response would be, 'You're right,the god of this world does answer your prayers 😈 That's how he convinces you that he's "The God you're praying-to."'

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See, Satan (The Criminal, The Enemy, 'the god of this world') doesn't want to "kill God," he wants to be God! He wants 'the god of this world' to get "voted into the Highest Throne of the Almighty" when God–in a superior display of humbleness–gives up his seat since we're all praising 'the wish-fulfillment' above 'the Father of the All Power.'

Because God doesn't "answer our prayers"; it's more like 'our prayers are an answer to His Merciful Blessings, His Amazing Grace (to what Buddhists would call The Divine Voice).

That 'mention of Buddhism' is sort of a "rabbit-hole" in my

 path to 'the word I'm focusing-on' ("trick"), as I'm tempted

 to go into an explanation of 'how Buddha doesn't claim to

 be The Highest Almighty God (though there are plenty of

his sutras where he claims to be God).'

And I'll "see how deep that 'rabbit-hole' goes" later; but now,

 back to "how prayer is a trick of the devil."

Examining 'the validity of The Power of Prayer,' the main prayer I remember (in The Bible) is Lord Jesus' prayer in the garden of Gethsemane. ... There are lots of 'arguments & confirmations' as to whether/how God 'answered that prayer,' but the point I reach (through meditation on the facts) is summed-up in a "meme" I saw a while ago ...

... that is; Jesus's prayer in the garden of Gethsemane ("... let this cup pass away from me ...") didn't change the circumstances Jesus was in, except that it did 'prepare Jesus to accept the best-and-worst possible future.' That is 'the power of prayer!'

But Satan tricks us into believing that prayer 'makes God do things differently than they were going to be done before.' He makes sure we get lucky, and we praise him-as God instead of Our Father- (who gave us the power to take the blessings where he 'lets them fall')!

'Trick' (below-hyperlinked to a warning against Satan's most sinister Trick) is built on an even-deeper source ... something crucial that firms the foundation upon which our lexicon stands ...

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The word “Trick” is built on ancient words that mean "to |Cheat, |Deceive" (|Evade, |Shuffle, |Trifle, |Nonsense, Tangle of Difficulties).

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Witnessing against the devil's 'trick': People 'say' (i.e. post a note on the social-network that says) "I need y'all's prayers," and something in me wants to make a 'Debbie Downer'-face and reply "No, you don't; you just need to remember 'the one and only prayer' ("... Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us ..." etc.) and need to Have Faith that it remains true."

I shouldn't answer so harshly–the 'prayer-requests' aren't "unworthy servants' begging pleas that we instruct the goodness of the world to flow differently than it was going to flow in the first place," but they're "our friends looking for 'highly-authorized encouragement' (and 'I pray that-' is believers' 'signature on the check from the bank where we save all our encouragement')"—

but I don't want them to think things go well "because God answers prayers," rather than that 'they go well if they do, or they go badly if they do; but the pray-er is given the strength to face either outcome.'

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