Article of Faith
World’s Top Christianity Nations, Prayers, Daddy Freeze, Science & Faith -By Nneka Okumazie
Progress or success of some is sometimes sabotaged by what they don’t understand – regardless of location, economy, status, education, or privilege.
The necessity of Christianity is not to pray for electricity, or water, or good roads, or money, or food. It is for life itself, existence and change for an individual, for the mind, for actions and in how others are treated.
The world has a wickedness problem. The world has a deceit problem. The world has a bitterness problem. The world has an emptiness problem. The world has a resentment problem. The world has problem of unknown intentions. The world has a failure problem.
Failures, disappointment, loss and rejection rarely have any playbook on how to effectively handle them. Some people just cave into certain habits, and they sometimes get hooked, going back – with the default situation inactive.
There are things about personal life that technology has no answer for. People fall into deceit every day. There are moods beyond control. There are thoughts that can’t be regulated. There are feelings – dangerous – that won’t let up, until the act is done. There are also spontaneous actions that come from moods or feelings or thoughts in the moment.
There are several existential brackets where psychology and therapy tries to fill, but rarely the answer.
Human motive – and unknown intention – outweighs the power of technology. Malice, bitterness, wickedness, retaliation, greed, fear, pride, etc. can drive how technology or science is deployed – at any instant.
There are things everyone is conditioned to see as more problematic than actual mind or behavioral problems. These problems override much else.
Christ didn’t come to the world for a rich country or for a poor country. Anyone can be wicked – rich or poor. Anyone can be vindictive – rich or poor. Hate can build – rich or poor. Envy can prompt evil – rich or poor. Greed can propel – rich or poor.
Anyone can feel hopeless no matter the level of privilege. Hopelessness can be mild, intense, or chronic. Hopelessness can lead to anything else.
But there is a lot of hope in genuine Christianity. It can be hope that the physical manifestation of answered prayers – or joy – cometh in the morning. It can be hope that no matter what this world does to devout Christians, there is hope to shine as the sun, in the Kingdom of their Father.
Hope, strong hope in Christ can help the mind dismiss emptiness, helplessness, loneliness, devastation, toxicity, etc. But outside Christ, it could be some habit, a lot it – that takes its own toll.
No one can fight for a better world and think that what Christ offered the world isn’t the greatest.
Genuine Salvation is so important, so priceless – it is everything anyone can need. Christ cannot be measured by the standards of this world.
GOD is a Spirit. Genuine Salvation is acceptance of Christ, repentance, connection to GOD, to hear from Him and to have the fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.
GOD is Superior and Supreme Sovereign. He chooses what to do, when, how, where and by whom, no questions.
GOD is not on the witness stand like the physical. Heaven is not a planet for view of a telescope. [Isaiah 40:18, To whom then will ye liken GOD? or what likeness will ye compare unto Him?]
Storms can hit, troubles can rage, things can get worse, prayers can be said in agony, but Christ said He’s always with genuine Christians. [John 14:18, I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.] [John 16:33, These things I have spoken unto you, that in ME ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.]
A devout Christian who has a disappointment problem can keep praying that, ‘I will not be disappointed’. If failure, can pray ‘I will not fail’. It can also be ‘I will not fall into deceit’, or ‘wicked intentions – or weapons – against me shall fail.
Christ said He answers prayers of genuine Christians: nothing else to do than to pray, and pray more – in His name, in His will and according to His Word. [John 16:24, Hitherto have ye asked nothing in My name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.]
A nation with large Christianity is not because of underdevelopment. The human nature is a bigger problem – anywhere: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like.
There are solutions to these in genuine Christianity. There is also the Love the LORD thy GOD, with all thy heart, soul, strength and mind, then neighbor as self. These standards of love can save a marriage – a union that seems tougher by the year around the world, because of what people see and hear through digital that influences them knowingly or otherwise.
Also, deceit is made easier by digital. It is easy to do things and say truths that are provable, but the rest can be lies. Deception can come in any form, or shape, and some would do anything to protect theirs.
JESUS is too important for this world. But many have tried to discredit Christ, by asking for solutions to natural disasters, or poverty, for Christ to prove His love. Some have also used random prayers to say Christ cannot prove His love.
But Christ is not a scientist or geologist. He wasn’t one. He didn’t promise that, or come to the world for that. Also, prayer is not a gamble, or to test GOD.
Yes, natural disasters are painful, sicknesses are tough, poverty and hunger are painful, but Christ was purposed beyond those. [Acts 27:20, And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away.] [2 Corinthians 11:26, [In] journeyings often, [in] perils of waters, [in] perils of robbers, perils by [mine own] countrymen, [in] perils by the heathen,
perils in the city, [in] perils in the wilderness, [in] perils in the sea, [in] perils among false brethren;]
GOD can save and protect because of His mercy, but the most important thing to GOD is Salvation, change of heart, renewing of the mind, clean heart, pure heart, holiness and submission to Him, in exchange for gifts, fruit, hope, faith, communication, revelation, wisdom and understanding that money can never buy.
Those who continue to attack Christianity should please provide solutions to unknown intentions, bitterness, strife, hate, selfishness, wickedness, etc.
[Genesis 39:9, [There is] none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou [art] his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against GOD?] [Ecclesiastes 11:9, Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these [things] GOD will bring thee into judgment.] [Isaiah 40:8, The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the Word of our
