"Thoughts and Prayers?"
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Question: Do thoughts and prayers really work?
Most are familiar with the saying, "God helps those who help themselves". Though this is not an exact quote in any scripture it does suggest that divine assistance is given to those who are proactive and work towards solutions. We need to take initiative and make effort to solve problems rather than sit back passively inorder to wait for God to fix things. If that was how things worked, why would God have created us in the first place? God created us, he sent us Messengers to educate us, to guide us and to instruct us on how best to live and he also gave us free will so we can learn, progress, make things better for ourselves and each other.
I understand this as meaning that the best way to get God's help is for us to take action on our own. Then God CAN help us as he will do it through our actions.
Prayer by itself is good for helping with problems of the soul and spirit, but when it comes to society, love. justice, we have to take action and that action MUST be in alignment with God's instructions and teachings. Otherwise how else can we receive the help we pray for.
So next time you "blame" God for school shooting, world famine, War, Crime, Hatred, Injustice, remember that none of these things are God's Will. It is our actions that enacts God's Will.
After-all, "God DOES helps those who help themselves" only if you do "Thoughts and Prayers WITH Action"