My good friend Mike\u00a0at Church For Men Florida posted a great article recently\u00a0about the phrases “Let me pray on that” and “That’s not my spiritual gift.” Here is what\u00a0he wrote:<\/p>\n
The phrase “Let Me Pray On That”<\/strong> can also mean the following:<\/p>\n
1. I have no intention of doing it.<\/p>\n
2. I am stalling and or I don’t want to make a decision.<\/p>\n
3. I am using the phrase “Let Me Pray On That” as a crutch<\/p>\n
The phrase “That’s Not My Spiritual Gift”<\/strong> can also mean the following:<\/p>\n
1. I am lazy<\/p>\n
2. I don’t want to do it.<\/p>\n
3. Isn’t there some other poor schmuck we can get to do it?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
How true.<\/p>\n
I remember once asking a member of my church youth group if he could help me out with something one weekend, and he said he had to ask his dad. I happened to overhear the exchange, and when the\u00a0young man\u00a0asked, his father said, “I’ll pray about it.” As the father walked away, the young man turned back to me and said, “That means ‘no.'”<\/p>\n
People aren’t stupid. They see what we are doing.<\/p>\n
God Told Me…<\/strong>
\nAnother phrase that gets abused a lot is “God told me…” I personally think that many Christians use this to justify their own decisions and keep people from questioning the decision\u00a0or voicing dissent. After all, you can’t argue with God.<\/p>\nOf course, if God did not really <\/em>tell the person what they are claiming He did, then they are putting words into God’s mouth, and laying 0n Him the blame for our poorly made human decisions. This, I think, qualifies as using the Lord’s name in vain. Whenever we use God’s name to justify our own actions, we are on very dangerous territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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