It always amazes me when someone finds out that I am a preacher. You usually get one of two responses. Either that will be the end of all conversation or the conversation will become something like a Catholic Church confessional. This does not happen with Tre the Christian Rapper, but Tre the preacher is different I guess. I have tried it both ways on several flights, trust me on this one. Well today, I am in a store, and a clerk comes up to me and asks me to pray with her. She says to me that she is praying for God’s direction about her current relationship. She is currently living with her unsaved boyfriend. OH LORD WE REALLY NEED A BURNING BUSH WORD FROM YOU!!!!! Really??? I’m a pretty straight forward type of cat, so I looked at her and asked, “Are you serious?” She responded, “I have been praying about this for a while, but God has not given me an answer”. So I asked the most profound question I have ever asked in life, “Why are you wasting your time praying about that?” Now, going to good old Christian school when I was younger, two things that were said to me: There are no stupid questions and you should pray about everything. However, this question about praying, I would deem stupid. As I began to talk to her, what I realized was she was using prayer as an excuse for not obeying. What a concept, but are many of us any different? We know what God would have us to do, we know the right thing to do, we know what we are called to do, but we hide behind the ritual of “praying” knowing that God is not going to respond to our stupidity, because you already know what to do. I am not knocking the power of prayer, nor am I saying that we need not pray. What I am saying is we need to quit lying to ourselves when we already know the answer to some of these make believe questions that we are asking. God what do I do? I’m not God, but here’s your answer. OBEY!!!!!!!!!!! BE BLESSED.
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