Some Mistaken Ideas Among Christians
Not only does the average Christian miss the mark by failing to understand the laws of answered prayer, or if he knows them, to obey these laws faithfully, but the average believer holds more or less to fallacies which hinder prayer. Fallacy #1: God will not permit harm to befall a person who does the best he can There are times the so-called best one can do is not enough to please God or to ward off attacks from demonic forces. Man's performance cannot always be adequate because of his lack of knowledge to conform intelligently to the will of God. People frequently think they are doing their best when they are putting forth all the effort possible to live as they please and be religious as they can while living a life of pleasure and selfishness. The best a person can do, if he really wants to do his best, is to forsake all sin, selfishness, worldliness, and everything displeasing to God and give himself wholly over to the total will of God according to the s...