Are Eye-Opening Miracles Revealing
Effective Christian Prayer?

Only a good God could have created the incredible nobility embedded in the highest human aspirations. Otherwise, how could humans long within their hearts for beauty and kindness? Those are hardly reasoned choices? Charismatic Christian faith proclaims that joy and abundance will follow a prayer to God, who is good. But, that view is not shared by science.

Mainstream science denies the evidence of miracles from God. They point to a God, who permitted the Holocaust. They cite the lack of answers to many a heartfelt prayer. For science, the evidence is erratic, contradictory and unacceptable for the hypothesis of a good God. With this conclusion, science has thrown out the baby with the bathwater. 

How Do We Recognize Patterns?
I came to realize that pure evidence based conclusions tend to ignore the human ability to recognize subtle patterns.    Way back in 1989 I had stumbled on an AI program that could instantly locate the truth in overlapping patterns.  If the nervous system had a combinatorial structure and used a similar logic, the mind could grasp complex concepts.  Such a structure could fit the publicly available facts about the nervous system.  All the 100 billion neurons could identify combinations.  Precise combinatorial signals between the neurons could deliver meaningful messages.  The axon hillocks of the neurons could store and retrieve boundless memories. 

All this could realistically enable the mind to locate the relevant truth from a massive base of inherited and acquired knowledge.  The intuitive process of the mind comprehends the concept of mercy with justice.    Science could never define such a notion.  We need to trust our intuition more. Intuition is an incredibly subtle pattern recognition process.  Over the next 30 years I have assembled a mass of supporting evidence and published three books.

• The essence of religious faith is a belief that God has good intentions for you. 
• Science rejects the concept of a good God.
• While science has its reasons, many great statesmen and leaders have accepted a good God, who answers prayers.
• Believers, whose prayers have been effective, have an enigmatic mental state.
• Effective Christian prayers are based on faith drawing inspiration from the Bible.
• The Charismatic movement has delineated the path to faith.
• Faith is a seed, which grows when one listens with expectation for divine insights.
• Daily readings from the Bible grant the Believer contextual insights.
• Listening to God, accepting His insights and gratitude for His blessings lead to miraculous answers to prayers.

Where Do Doubts Come From?
Faith is trust, belief, confidence, conviction, credence, reliance, dependence, optimism, hopefulness.  Christian faith is all these that God has good intentions for you.  The Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC) is believed to make choices, when one is faced with conflicting perceptions - such as when one is asked to identify the color of the word "Red" written in blue ink.  But, we have convictions too - we KNOW that we exist. ACC is silent for that decision.  So also, true Christian Faith remains a conviction.  When doubts enter the mind, ACC takes control and a decision becomes difficult.

Can You Deny The Existence Of Miracles?
Doubts rule mainstream science.  Doubts blind science to a crucial dimension of human life - the goodness of God. On the other hand, faith points to the incredible beauty of the world to justify the view of a good God.  He also works miracles. There is concrete evidence of miracles in the world. But, papers presenting the evidence of innumerable miracles across history are rejected by influential science journals. Where peer reviews decide the results of a lifetime of research, a public acknowledgment of miracles becomes a fatal frailty for a scientist. They diligently oppose the concept of a good and loving God. In spite of scientific opposition, many great statesmen and thinkers remain convinced of the existence of a good God and of His miracles. In the midst of such doubts, an increasing number of modern Christians have benefited from miraculous answers to prayers. The triumph of these Believers is founded on the silence of their ACCs.

Can There Be An Absence Of Doubts?
The Believer senses the goodness of God deep within. As Kierkegaard suggests, logical contradictions opposing such a belief disappear into a vast silence in the Believer's mind. The Believer feels loved. The Believer argues that anyone can live a blessed life by following certain percepts. With a firm faith that prayers will be answered, the possibility of failure vanishes into a childlike silence in the mind of the Believer. He believes in the goodness of God while taking into consideration the daily media reports, from countries around the world, of earthquakes and floods, wars and holocausts, untimely deaths and of the resounding success of evil. In return, the Believer benefits from prayer. Replacing logical contradictions with silent faith is the basis of effective Christian prayer.

Can You Deny Worlds Beyond Imaginations?
Effective Christian prayers receive miraculous answers. They draw inspiration from the Bible, which documents an untold number of prophesies and promises. Devout scholars have uncovered much evidence of its supernatural construct. As an example, some books in the Bible were translated hundreds of years before the Christian era. Yet, those books prophesied the life and mission of Jesus Christ.

The Christian belief is that crucifixion widened the reach of God's answers to prayers. Jesus Christ sacrificed himself for all of humanity. From a focus on the Israelites, the Bible promises answers to all prayers through Jesus Christ. Faith in these promises yield miraculous answers. Prayers in His name by Believers have mitigated their disasters, achieved their successes and brought them peace and joy. Each person is free to accept, or reject the Christian belief. Acceptance has transformed lives.

What Is The Charismatic Movement?
The Charismatic Movement interprets the Bible, delineating steps to Christian faith. Their views have powerfully benefited their vast assembly of followers. Pointing to Biblical verses that abundance is acceptable to God, the Charismatic faith overturns prevalent admonitions against wealth. According to the Bible, the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. The path to faith usually begins when one feels fear and despair and feels a need for divine help.

The need is intense, when life has brought them to a place, where there is no way out. You need a miracle to save you. A hope that prayer through Jesus Christ can help is sown as a seed in your mind. You make a commitment to grow that seed. The Bible promises that your commitment will grow that seed. With faith, miracles deliver the promises of God documented in the Bible. It is written that they are wrought by the faith of the individual and not by Jesus.

The Charismatic view is that God speaks to you all the time. You need to listen. When an amateur learned to fly, he listened to the confusing radio message from his instructor. In the constant chatter within radio waves, the beginner learned to identify his code number and respond to his instructions. He gradually learned to grasp those messages. He began to anticipate the words of his instructor.

Prayer is the process of presenting problems that trouble you to God and faith is the process of leaving it to Him. When you ask your friend for help and he replies "consider it done."  You can then leave it to him.  With faith, the answer to your prayer is "consider it done." That problem is not yours to worry over.  Repeat your prayers however many times with the same faith.  Till you know the answer to your prayer.

Learn to recognize His promises and admonitions. Faith demands continuous prayer, till it is answered one way, or the other. Faith considers your prayer answered - your job is over.  Consider it done. Value the surprising answers to some prayers. They could appear supernatural. Accept setbacks as the will of God, without questioning their logic. Kill the thistles and thorns of reason, which seek to destroy your seed of faith.   Faith grows as you consign each destructive doubt into the vast well of silence in your mind. 

How Do You You Know God Love You?
Effective Christian prayers lead to a privileged life. The divine point of contact is the name of Jesus Christ. Christian inspiration for prayers comes from daily readings of the Bible. As you absorb the circumstances encountered by generations of kings, princes, prophets and sages, your mind will grasp a verse, which is God's answer to the crisis you face. Expect His words to rise in your subconscious. Valuing small answers to prayers is the true foundation of faith. Nothing is too small for an infinite wisdom. The answer may be simple. Example - "I will give you rest."

We tend to focus our thoughts on misfortunes, which we did not justly deserve. Such a focus leads to despair.  Gratitude comes only when you have received something, which you cannot justly claim to deserve. Look back on your life.  Serious contemplation will reveal countless benefits you received, which you did not deserve.  Love lavishes undeserved blessings.  As you keep counting your blessings, you will become convinced of being loved by  God.  Listening to God, accepting His insights and gratitude for His blessings will lead you to miraculous answers to prayers. As your faith in the goodness of God takes hold, you will be filled with joyous exhilaration, even if you are hurting inside.

This page was last updated on 06-Nov-2018.