I just lost this whole post, so bear with me. This story is too good -- and I swear this happened just this week!

I'm waiting for my number to be called and a lady seats a disabled man near me. He's real shaky and appears to be partly blind as she guides him to a seat. Way younger than me, poor guy.

Immediately he starts coughing, barking, raspy, hack, hack, hack. Nobody with him, no attendant, so I ask him if a drink of water would help and he nods. I get him a drink and help hold the bottle, everything's fine. He thanks me, I go sit back down.

The man next to me suddenly speaks to me, "This is the most powerful prayer book ever," he says, and shows me his book, "Prayers for Men." His eyes are kind of glowing and twinkling and he says, "You have been used of God."

"How so?" I reply. He answers,

"When that young man was coughing so hard, I prayed for help to come to him and you got right up and gave him a drink. That's the power of prayer, my friend. Thank you, Jesus."

I had no idea Jesus used atheists his wonders to perform.

OR...the dude could have just given the guy a drink himself instead of praying for help to "arrive" (by angel?)


Kathleen Waters

No! You were an agent of The Lord! Whenever someone does something good, it's OBVIOUSLY because a god made them do it. No one ever does good things out of the goodness of their hearts, silly anagrammy!

It wasn't the prayer....you last name is "Waters"....god knew you would bring water to a coughing man.

All silliness aside.....if that's possible given the OP, I think the guy was trying to take credit for your kind actions. HE was so thoughful to pray, and god answered HIS prayer through you. But that's what they do, pray, and when it works out naturally, they take credit because they prayed.

You should have replied..."Yes, I know you were busy praying. Just before I stood up to help, I heard a the voice of god asking me to get up and get the coughing man a drink because you were to busy praying when god was asking you to help."

^^I like this response^^

In my opinion, praying is just barely a verb.

Another good response: You won't be able to hear God speaking to you if you're doing all the talking.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/11/2014 06:02PM by Devoted Exmo.

Actions speak louder than prayer. Prayer is the best way to do nothing and still think you're helping.

Amazing how you can strengthen his belief in God by helping when it was clear help was needed.

"Actions speak louder than prayer. Prayer is the best way to do nothing and still think you're helping."

I love that!

I wish you would have asked him to pray for the line to move faster.

God, some people are just dumb. Prayer.

LOL!!

Ahhh - the wit of the staircase!


KW

gotta love the French.

Levi Wrote:
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> I wish you would have asked him to pray for the
> line to move faster.

Yes, God must have been at the DMV here today. I took my daughter in for her driving test and we only had to wait half of the estimated time they gave us upon arrival...God must have had something to do with that...even though neither of us said a prayer, we heard the person in front of us go "Oh God" when he saw the wait time, lol

anagrammy Wrote:
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> OR...the dude could have just given the guy a
> drink himself instead of praying for help to
> "arrive" (by angel?)


As the old saying goes, one person working can accomplish more than a thousand people praying.

Some pray for miracles...
Others do what has to be done, naturally.
Thanks you anagrammy, for being you.
What else can you do?

M@t

Oh ya..Jesus is really busy. He found a pencil for a gal at a cashier when I was shopping one day a couple of years ago.
She must have said: "thank you Jesus" about five times when she found her pencil!
I thought Jesus was only in charge of finding lost keys and cell phones! And the DMV now I see! (OK that was snarky!!)

What an arrogant prick. He is responsible for your do gooding.

+1

I have a friend who was addicted to meth. He turned his life around and has been sober for almost a year.

His neighbor started claiming on Facebook that she saved him through prayer.

If this guy had so much influence with God/Jesus/fill in the blanks, why the hell is he not praying for peace and important things like that?

Jesus effing christo on a pogo stick, what an idiot.

That's the same feeling I get when my mom tells me she's always praying for me. I really believe it's to make her feel like she's got an inside track to god and since I'm an unbeliever, it makes her just a little higher up on the totem pole.

As a matter of fact, the Bible has incidents where God used non-believers, unbelievers and even anti-believers to do his will. As a parable, remember the Good Samaritan who was compared as better than the priest who walked by.

Yeah, so much for free will, cupcakes.

God does not force it on anyone. Note that the pope has indicated that non-believers may be in heaven. It is radical change. TSCC does not permit us to the CK.

Then why do you need to be forgiven for anything?

Because of guilt. Have you done nothing wrong?

Reminds me of a South Park Episode, "Let Go, Let Gov."

It's a must see in its entirety, but here's a quick clip:

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/4llcr4/dmv-confessions

" I heard a the voice of god asking me to get up and get the coughing man a drink because you were to busy praying when god was asking you to help."

Great answer by Jonny the Smoke..

A better reply is to make a reference to the parable.

Isaiah 29: 13

"These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me."

Your actions were more charitable than any amount of useless prayer, Annagrammy. Your character is admirable. The prayer guy would probably watch someone drown with folded arms.

If God was really involved, they guy would have gotten up and got his own water without any disabilities.

Anagrammy, my daughter called while I was reading your post, so I read it to her. We had a good mother daughter giggle. You're a truly good person with a keen sense of humor. Thank you for sharing.

Heh heh!! This is ADORABLE Anagrammy!!

Bring on the old "God helps those who helps themselves - and others" line!!!

'The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.'-- Robert Green Ingersoll

although new move-ins call ours the DMV, the title of our licensing department covers people in professions & trades... so, it's called the Department of Licensing.

dog told me you'all wanted to know that.

I love ya, Anagrammy! You're a very cool person!
Tiny Tears, thanks for the clip! LOLOL

anagrammy Wrote:
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> I had no idea Jesus used atheists his wonders to
> perform.

Didn't He have a parable for that? I'm too tired to look it up right now...

The man who invites all his best friends to a banquet but they all have lame excuses and don't show up, so the man just goes out and grabs random people off the street to take their place.

Damn you, Anagrammy.

I had just prayed to god that this guy would choke and die.

The Lord was answering my prayer, when you stepped in and thwarted his will.

You are obviously an agent of satan!

;)

sonoma Wrote:
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> You are obviously an agent of satan!
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> ;)


Well...he does control the watets ;-)

Maybe this gentelman forgot what what the bible says in James 2:14-17

Thankfully, I didn't have to endure that episode.