Replacing Prayer with Chance

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Omegatime

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Luck definition: the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life,

Examples:

Charms
Horseshoes
4 leaf clovers
lucky coins
Dream catchers
Rabbit foot
Mistletoe

IMO Luck replaces prayer--your thouights
 
Not sure what your premise is here. I think most of us know what luck is and by the same token, we know what prayer is. Are you saying that believing in luck is replacing prayer in the believer's life? I'm not sure what point you are trying to make.
 
pinebeach said:
Not sure what your premise is here. I think most of us know what luck is and by the same token, we know what prayer is. Are you saying that believing in luck is replacing prayer in the believer's life? I'm not sure what point you are trying to make.
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I believe usage of Luck is harmful to a christian's life
 
Omegatime said:
Luck definition: the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life,

Examples:

Charms
Horseshoes
4 leaf clovers
lucky coins
Dream catchers
Rabbit foot
Mistletoe

IMO Luck replaces prayer--your thouights
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I'm sure for some people it does. But you can't totally discount happenstance; although, this too is more likely than not from the hand of God. If dependence on "fortune" replaces dependence on God that's not good.
 
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Omegatime said:
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I believe usage of Luck is harmful to a christian's life
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OK. As Christians, we should not depend or even believe in luck if I understand scripture at all. I knew someone who professed a ministry and yet had a large dream catcher in their kitchen window. There is definatley spiritual fallout of the negative kind from that sort of thing.
 
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The OP prompted a memory:

When I was a wee lad I made dream catchers to sell at a local festival. I called them "God's Eyes" because I heard someone call them that. To my little mind everyone would love a reminder that God watches over them even when they sleep. I had no understanding that they were connected to druid magic or witchcraft or any other indigenous religion.

Later, someone brought up the subject of dream catchers as an example of pagan symbology that has "sneaked" into our homes. They were a very religious person: the kind that forbade people to dance and sing.

Any way, I recalled my little wee-lad business venture and wondered if I had, inadvertently, brought evil into people's homes. So, I asked the Lord.

This was one of the times I sensed the Lord laughing at my question... kinda like a grandfather laughing at a grandson he delights in when lad is just being a boy.

I made the God's Eyes in the measure of the faith I had as a little boy but I was not just innocent of any sin... the Lord actually delighted in my work because I honored Him.
 
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Omegatime said:
Luck definition: the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life,

Examples:

Charms
Horseshoes
4 leaf clovers
lucky coins
Dream catchers
Rabbit foot
Mistletoe

IMO Luck replaces prayer--your thouights
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Dream what not does not go before Scripture. Short is I had a dream.. died shot up to heaven... big tree deer and such green grass and this.. lol short woman said "there is no luck here". No clue why that was said yet.. yeah no such thing as luck.
 
In a Creation where the Creator knows the end from the beginning, there can be be no such thing as "luck". The only "religious" people and "theologians", I know who thought there was did not know the Lord.
best wishes
 
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Aaron56 said:
The OP prompted a memory:

When I was a wee lad I made dream catchers to sell at a local festival. I called them "God's Eyes" because I heard someone call them that. To my little mind everyone would love a reminder that God watches over them even when they sleep. I had no understanding that they were connected to druid magic or witchcraft or any other indigenous religion.

Later, someone brought up the subject of dream catchers as an example of pagan symbology that has "sneaked" into our homes. They were a very religious person: the kind that forbade people to dance and sing.

Any way, I recalled my little wee-lad business venture and wondered if I had, inadvertently, brought evil into people's homes. So, I asked the Lord.

This was one of the times I sensed the Lord laughing at my question... kinda like a grandfather laughing at a grandson he delights in when lad is just being a boy.

I made the God's Eyes in the measure of the faith I had as a little boy but I was not just innocent of any sin... the Lord actually delighted in my work because I honored Him.
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1 Timothy 4:4-5.
 
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