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Whitney Houston's funeral service really took the world to church. Love Pastor Winans' honesty, very moving.
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If you ask God to lower gas prices, will we start paying $3 instead of $4? I guess we’ll see.
Rocky Twyman, a community organizer from the D.C. area, recently held a prayer meeting at the gas pumps, asking God to lower gas prices. The idea itself, fueled by the National Day of Prayer on May 1, led Twyman’s movement to pull in loads of press, from Fox News to the Washington Post. People seem to be fascinated with the idea that groups would petition God for help with gas money. Bloggers have run wild with it. Some say Christians should certainly give all concerns to God, including money and gas prices. Others suggest God is trying to tell us something: In other words, gas prices have been raised so we’ll stop using gas. Still others are saying we should be more focused on those who don’t have food to eat than on filling up our SUVs.
While Jesus did say, “Knock and the door shall be opened unto you” (Luke 11:9), he also urged followers to store their treasures in Heaven (Matthew 6:19-21). So what do you think? Will the prayers work? Should Christians be praying for lower gas prices at all? Leave your comments.
I think praying for ‘lower gas prices’ is symptomatic of a ‘I have a problem, God can fix it mentality’ that can be either good or bad, depending on the attitude of the person praying. What’s more important to realize is that you need God to help provide for you… so the prayer may be for lower gas prices, but it might get answered with a two for one sale at the grocery store that saves you twenty bucks off your food bill.