July 29, 2008
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Praying for Lower Gas Prices
A group of people in St. Louis held two prayer services to pray to God for lower gas prices. Here is the link: Link
Do you think God cares about lower gas prices?
A group of people in St. Louis held two prayer services to pray to God for lower gas prices. Here is the link: Link
Do you think God cares about lower gas prices?
Comments (99)
Probably not…
No, God cares about rich Arabs.
I doubt it. doesn’t he want people to be healthy my nieghbor drives down to get her mail.
yes, i’m sure it’s on the top of his list.
If He cares about fuel prices it’s probably because they’re linked to higher food prices in countries that aren’t as well off as the U.S.
I don’t believe in any deity…so…no?
@NikBv - God hates Arabs.
That’s why they pray to Allah
I can think of more noble things to pray for, on top of that, Missouri has some of the cheapest gas in the nation still.
@beautiful___nightmare - Yes, but to whom does Allah pray? Gotta be J. C.
I hope he cares about more important things.
hahahahahahaha
don’t think so
but maybe cause maybe people are giving less to the church because of gas prices
no
being agnostic, i would have to say no. but if people in their hearts truly feel it will help i don’t see anything wrong with them trying.
Hilarious.
Go ahead and keep on prayin’, but as long as you’re driving a pickup or buying food from Argentina, you’re not doing your part to help out.
LOL, alrighty
I heard about that. I think it’s retarded. God has bigger concerns on His mind, I would think. Try things like crime, hunger, and world peace.
If God didn’t care about Hitler murdering six million of His own chosen people, then God proably doesn’t care about gas prices.
no
Do you think the Flying Spaghetti Monster cares about my chemistry paper?
Of course not. Stop personifying fictional characters, Dan.
@NikBv - Yes, but to whom does Allah pray? Gotta be J. C.
Fuck this shit.
Siddhārtha Gautama FTW!
@NikBv - I know a secret that not a lot of people want to say out loud, so you’ll have to listen VERY VERY carefully…Allah isn’t real…So obviously, he can’t pray.
God cares about a sparrow. He cares about a economic situation which is contributing to many of those whom He loves’ struggles.
…not as much as we dooo…
Not to say He doesn’t care about anything that affects humanity, but I have a feeling it’s low down on His priorities. Gas costs twice as much in Europe and has for a long time; maybe St. Louis residents should be praying for relief for Europeans before themselves. And I agree with wxcruiser. When I drive from Michigan to Arkansas, gas is always cheapest in Missouri.
God cares about how people are affected by corporate greed.
@beautiful___nightmare - God hates Arabs.
That’s why they pray to Allah
I didn’t know Jesus was racist. It’s hard to tell, you know? He seemed like such a nice guy!
The Lord cares about everything that is dear to the heart of man, so I would have to say BECAUSE He loves us – He cares.
@huginn -
@la_faerie_joyeuse -
You both win.
Ummmm, I’ll go with no.
Why not pray for peace worldwide or starving children or the genocide happening in Darfur? I mean, cmon, what weird request. If you’re going to ask for something like that ask for something a little more helpful to those really hurting.
No.
God cares about everything. There may be some definite reasons why gasoline is so high right now. Like giving us a shove towards renewable energy research.
Seriously, there has to be another way besides fossil fuels.
Nope..course not
this is just another way for God to reach out to us.
He ‘blessed’ this world with pain, sufferings, cancer, disease, poverty, a slowing economy, and high gas prcies so that we could hate this world a little more.
So we’d rather want heaven than live in this world when we die.
to put it a little bluntly
hahaha he prolly likes high gas prices!
Good God.
I’m pretty sure God has other things to worry about
God plans what is best for us.
Im thinking no.
Xo
All I know is the gas prices have dropped….
Maybe God wants us to look toward something that is not cheap, non-renewable energy. I wonder if God is annoyed or just laughs when people do things like that. I dont like gas prices but it seems odd to pray for them to lower… and as supply goes down and demand increases, it will just keep going up… its basic economics.
Nope.
well if he did, he needs to intervene right about now cause gas prices suckkkk.
No
I love how everyone just feels to free to speculate on what God does and does not care about.
No and it’s a stupid prayer.
He cares about everything. How could we believe in God and yet feel that He only cares about every other thing? He is everything, He is everywhere. But God also gave us the power of choice.
I’m sure God’s just been waiting for us to pray to Him before adding more oil reserves into the earth.
sorry but god doesn’t fix anything
@captain_jaq - I’m glad I read everyone’s comments, because I was about to say the same thing.
he cares about everyone, rich and poor.
In the big picture, Do you really think anything supernatural can move a free market economy much less influence the price of oil and gas? No. really. Do you?
I think God cares about everything.
God cares about prayers.
No, He doesn’t need gas…..or food…….even though, in some cultures we, humans sacrafice our food for him……..Ridiculous, if you go hungry because of it…………..but at least you’re dogmatically doing something traditionally correct.
I dont think God is worried about the high gas prices…….And neither do people with lots of money….thats why our gas prices dont really go down….
I’m thinking not so much, no.
Yes, God does give answers to prayers such as “…for gas prices to tumble, soon.” Jesus said it best when He said, “Ask and ye shall receive.” …Love, Sande
Yes, God cares about everything.
x0x MK
Eh, probably not. We got ourselves into this mess. =/
About as much as he cares about getting me laid again.
If not for selfish reasons..God cares whatever we care about!
I don’t know about God, but Cheesus cares. How can he not, with all his cheesy goodness?
Lolno.
@beautiful___nightmare - Arabs believe that Allah is the same God as the Christian God.
I don’t believe that God answers prayers asking for favors. He answers prayers that are made selflessly. About His will being done, not about what we think would be better for us.
If there is a god, no, he doesn’t care. Considering the carbon dioxide we’re dumping into the atmosphere is destroying his nice planet, maybe he’s actually behind all this.
I’m a firm believer that you can pray to God about anything you please. I do think it’s a little strange for the pastor to pray for lower gas prices in front of a congregation though.
Also, I remember somewhere in the Bible (I think Eccelesiastes) where it says that when you pray, remember that God is God and you’re not. So personally I would probably not pray about gas prices.
I really doubt it.
@huginn - That was by far the best response! BUDDHA!!!!
@beautiful___nightmare - Allah is god to the Arabs just like Buddha is god to the Buddhists and so on and so forth.
God cares. As is plain from the comments you received it’s people who don’t care. The Bible suprised me when I read it and found a God who cares and cared about me so much that it tells us Jesus stood above a city and wept saying that he would have taken the people under his wings like a mother hen but they would not come to him.
That is not to say that He will lower the gas prices if you ask Him to do that. God is not like a Geni in a bottle. You just rub and get three wishes. He is a loving,kind,father who longs for a relationship with His children. Anybody who has had a friend who was suicidal,lonely and has watched that friend get more and more depressed in spite of your love for them can relate to the love God has for us. We turn away from Him not Him from us.
God does not meddle with our everyday businesses.
Pff, no. If I was God, I’d be a little too busy taking care of the other 5438720945895etc daily prayers for things that are of greater concern.
I think God is concerned about any thing that concerns us. If we pray for lower gas prices, he may or may not answer like we want him to, but he’ll help us find a way to pay for our needs, not necessarily our wants, but our needs.
I find it funny that they chose to do so at the end of July, when gas prices usually do go down.
If they really wanted to impress people, they should have started praying the last week of June and made gas prices go down for 4th of July weekend. I think that alone would have made me a believer.
Eh, not really. I saw this on the news awhile ago and thought they were crazy. Try praying for something more important, like our soldiers.
@huginn - Don’t be so stereotypical! Not all racists are bad people. Nice people can be racist too.
I think He cares more about whether or not we are being good stewards of what He’s given us.
@CanadianConspiracy - ”Arabs believe that Allah is the same God as the Christian God”
If you really look closely at both religions, you will see this is not the case. There are too many discrepencies between the two religions. If it were true that “Allah” and “God” were the same, then either Jesus would be presented as the Son of God in BOTH religions and/or Mohammad would be revered in both religions. Yet Christians and Jews don’t count Mohammad at all, and Muslims just think Jesus was a good prophet.
We’ll all know that he cares when the gas prices go under $2.00 a gallon.
No.
@beautiful___nightmare - Don’t be so stereotypical! Not all racists are bad people. Nice people can be racist too.
Do you have a favorite genocidal dictator too? The kindly Pope Urban II? Or maybe the friendly Milosevic!
@huginn - Hitler.
@beautiful___nightmare - I thought so.
No.
He cares about everything in our lives…He’s not a spectator to our problems…He cares about us and cares about our problems
@huginn - touche
I think God cares. He knows that everything is going up, and it makes it to where most of us are stuggling to get things such as gas, and our daily food. I don’t know about you but I’m living pay check to pay check just because of the economy’s ridiculous!
God will help us.
lol, that’s pretty funny. But I don’t think God cares as much for the gas prices as much as He cares for how negatively it might impact people.
Don’t think he cares about humanity at all.
@beautiful___nightmare - hmm, coulda sworn that Allah is the arabic word for God..or maybe not hey i could be wrong
he thinks everyone is too fat, so he wants us all to get off our fat asses and get some exercise.
Sure. God cares about gas prices. His concern is probably more along the lines of how gas prices affect people. But that doesn’t mean God wants low gas prices. It could mean He wants high prices to teach us how to live when money gets tight. Other generations had the great depression, world wars, and other such things to teach them about hard financial times.
@Endowedbythecreator - Meh, probably. But don’t worry, it happens to a lot of people.
@beautiful___nightmare - lol either youre a clever, witty, sarcastic bastard like i am, or youre a complete imbecile. I’d venture to say the latter, but people surprise me sometimes…
What a shallow theory.
@GunStarHero1988 - Great minds think alike.
No, because majority of the world pray for lower gas price and nothing had happen.
most of yall got it right,,, that one up there didnt,,, hahahahahahahaha,,, i dont care about no stinkin sparrow,,,,,
@NikBv - HAH! LOLzzz
God has nothing to do with gas prices. They should try writing to their congressmen and women. They would get a bit farther that way.
don’t like this question dan.. you’ve turned people racist and religious fascists! look at the mayhem you’ve caused *tsk tsk tsk*… =D
it’s out of the scope of His priorities….