Communicate with the Dead? Ask Them for Things? Do they Answer?

by JC

Isaiah 58 Ministries                                                                     December 2014

Pastor: Leah Svensson
written by JC Scriptures: Luke Chapter 11, John 15:15-18


                   

When I was growing up my Mother, a saint, taught her children what she had been taught by her teachers, nuns.  She taught us that Jesus was our Savior and we celebrate Jesus birth on Christmas. She told us the story of Jesus' birth and the three wise men.  I loved hearing all about it.  

               

 She taught us through out the year about different Saints.  She taught us to pray to Saint Christopher for protection.











She taught us to pray to Saint Anthony when we had lost something.

She taught us to pray to Mary the Mother of God.











     

   Now I have a boat load of Aunts, Uncles, cousins etc... that are Catholic.  Catholic Schools, Catholic Colleges, Catholic Marriages, Catholic children etc.   But my Mother, Aunts and Uncles failed to teach their children  how to pray according to Jesus our Savior who was born to reconcile us back to our father. Jesus came to return us "Home".  So we no longer, "are not talking to God or spending time with him." 

    Through Jesus we are able to move home and live together with God in us.  We are always talking to God, we always know his presence, his love, we know him really really well. We pray according to his will. We want what he wants us to have, do whatever He wants us to do, and we know he always answers our prayers because we know God, we know what he wants and we want what he wants, we are best friends!

     

 There is another person my Mother mentioned in passing to ask, or worship or pray to: Saint Nicolas

Now this isn't just a Catholic thing but

something done by everybody. When you were a child and your parents had you make a Christmas list it. You were "worshiping, asking and praying to a man". Someone other than God which is a sin. 

Teach your children how to pray to the one true God!

If you really want to know How to pray please 

read the following. 

Become a follower of Jesus Christ and pray as Jesus tells us to.       
                                                              
                                          Supplement


 What is prayer?  What is praying?  How do you pray? And who do you Pray to?

The dictionary definition of Pray:

pray

 verb \ˈprā\

: to speak to God especially in order to give thanks or to ask for something

: to hope or wish very much for something to happen

: to seriously ask (someone) to do something

So prayer or praying 

is  to ask.

The dictionary definition of prayer is:

prayer

prer/

noun

1. a solemn request for help or expression of thanks addressed to God or an object of worship.

   "I'll say a prayer for him"

   synonyms:

   invocation, intercession, devotion;  archaicorison "the priest's murmured prayers"

   • a religious service, especially a regular one, at which people gather in order to pray together.

     "500 people were detained as they attended Friday prayers"
   • an earnest hope or wish.

     "it is our prayer that the current progress on human rights will be sustained"

   
   

When we say a prayer or when we are 

praying we are asking "a god" to do 

something for us.  We are worshiping 

this "god".  It is a religious act.

Let's ask Jesus  Who to pray to, how to 

pray and what to pray for.

Luke 11:1-4, 9-17

The Lord’s Prayer

1 Now Jesus  was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.” 2 And he said to them, “When you pray, say:

“Father, hallowed be your name.

Your kingdom come.

3 Give us each day our daily bread, 

4 and forgive us our sins,

for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us.

And lead us not into temptation.”

Jesus goes on to say Ask!

 9 And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. 11 What father among you, if his son asks for  a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; 12 or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 13 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

13 Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you ask me  anything in my name, I will do it.

Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be  in you.

John 15:15 but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. 17 These things I command you, so that you will love one another.

The Hatred of the World

18 “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.19 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; 

So to sum up what Jesus said is:

1. You pray to his Father, the one who planted his seed in his mother.
2. You become best friends with Jesus.
3. You pray to God in Jesus name.  You don't say: "Hey God "your name" here."
4. You ask God to forgive your sins.
5. You ask God to give you the gift of the Holy Spirit.
6. You pray to know and to do God's will first. (the Holy Spirit gives you the knowledge of God's will, it's the absolute "truth" after complete investigation into all matters, no quick decisions made according to what you see and feel. (Don't follow your heart, it is deceitful)
7. You pray for your physical needs to be provided for
8. You pray for protection from devil, sin and sinfil people.
9. You Glorify God, praise him, compliment him sincerely and honestly.
10.  BE Ready People are going to hate you!

You can not be friends with Jesus and other people at the 
same time.

Beings friends with people who do not know God causes God to answer "No"! 

Warning Against Worldliness

1 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions  are at war within you?  2 You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. 4 You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5 Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”?6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

God is ready to answer when we ask but we ask according to the way our friends in the "the world" do ,have and say things. We are friends with the world and they have taught us about their "many gods" through TV, Radio, Movies, Public Schools, government, Money.

God doesn't answer prayers that the world wants us to pray.  God is King all men must worship God and pray according to the "Spirit" of God leading us.  God doesn't use money to deliver, set us free or provide or protect.  God doesn't use money.  He answers our prayers by the Spirit. He provides by the Spirit, protects by the Spirit, heals and delivers by the Spirit!!!