Some bloggers obsess about diet pills, but I put more of my energy into matters of the spirit. The thing that’s been on my mind lately is the power of prayer.

Prayer can work in many different ways. It can bring healing when medicine comes to the limits of its abilities. It can comfort us in a time of loss. It can help us connect to God and each other. But faith, as James advises, must be accompanied by action.

The old saying is that someone can be so heaven-minded that they are no earthly good. The other saying is that God helps those who help themselves. Neither of these sayings is a Bible verse, and they are not Biblical perspectives, however.

The truth is that the L-RD helps the helpless, not those who help themselves; also, if one is truly kingdom-minded, they would feel compelled to act in ways that make them a help to others in the world, not mindlessly contemplating the world to come.

Some folks abandon prayer because, at a critical time, they did not get something they prayer for in the way they prayed for it to be granted; that’s regarding God as a genie in a bottle, however.

The truth is, on those times when healing doesn’t come in this world or this life, and we lose someone we love, if they were in Messiah, they have simply moved on to a greater form of healing: an incorruptible body and an eternity with haShem.

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