Comments on: Pet Peeve #27 – Jewish Prayer Shawls and Holy Land Anointing Oil

By: Ryan Miller

Ryan Miller — Tue, 20 May 2008 18:26:37 +0000

Grace and peace…
Grace and peace…

By: Martha Margaret

Martha Margaret — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:38:19 +0000

Good explanation, Ben.

By: Ben Cotten

Ben Cotten — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:50:18 +0000

I’m not against intercession at all. Thanks for noting that this was a humorous post because that was the intent. To laugh at ourselves a bit and simply admit that we do some silly things.

It sounds like you aren’t really offended about prayer but rather that we are laughing over the things we often do thinking that they will increase the effectiveness of our prayer.

Do those prayer shawls and shofars = intercession to you? Is it offending you that I am separating the two with a smile on my face?

I find it really interesting that my serious posts rarely get this kind of reaction. It’s when we laugh that people get angry.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 20 May 2008 09:40:51 +0000

Hi
May God take you beyond your peeves and into His presence. the saddest site I have seen in some time – why, as His people have you chosen to use something so trivial to attack the work of intercession. Unless you yourself have the heart to intercede for the lost, you won’t find yourself at intercession and will be able to criticise outside of the experience of prayer. The Body of Christ will rise with the witness it was intended to when the house of God stop throwing mud at each other and enjoying the effects of fragmented ministries founded on spiritual jealousy, and it will have and it will be the fruit of unity.

It seems that using such a simple concept, your humorous attack on intercession, the enemy has managed to cause suspicion over prayer – it is lack of prayer that sees the church of God in such a state of apathy in many cases.

Use your influence to call the church to prayer.

Turn the power to communicate using the web into construction of the image of God’s people and stop adding to the derision that the enemy enjoys while God’s own people destroy one another.

You are the Body of Christ. Unite and serve – don’t divide and rule. The fruit of the ministry is UNITY – JOHN 17.

My suggestion is that you pray before your write.

By: Morris

Morris — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:18:22 +0000

Please pray for Ms Mamta for her safety, protection, deliverance.Her mother & sisters are getting her forcibly married to a person whom she does not like.That boy has beaten her on the street and in the commercial area.She is afraid cause she is all alone for no one is standing with her or supporting her in this situation.Pray that trhe Lord would intervene and make a way out for her in this situation. She is a believer. She may be have compromised with the situation cause theres no other option for her.But still we believe in the God of Miracles.Pls pray for a miracle to take place and that she would be delivered.Pls pray for the miracle totake place before 26th of this month.

By: Sarah (Real Life)

Sarah (Real Life) — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 04:15:14 +0000

I got stuck at one of those prayer meetings ALL NIGHT one night in college. It was two hours away from home, and I of course was not driving. They were doing some special dance with the shawls and entrancing music in the background. I spent the whole night praying I could go home! The people I went with thought I was demon oppressed because I thought the whole thing was insane.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:06:57 +0000

Well, I think Ben’s “problem” with all things Jewish goes back to his parading around town on one Halloween night singing at the top of his voice, “We are the circumcision that worships God in the Spirit.” He might need some personal ministry because of that . . .