Daily Bible Nugget #744, John 9:31

The Nugget:

Joh 9:31  Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.

The Muslim Challenge:

Christian says: “we pray anytime we wish. We pray anywhere we wish”

When you leave it to individuals, they dont pray. Perhaps they pray once in a while when they remember about God.. but most of the time they forget God.

Islam makes it compulsory to pray 5x a day so that you will never forget God. Btw, Muslims can also pray anytime we wish and anywhere we wish, outside of the 5 compulsory prayers. Supplication (doa) is not to be confused with Worship in solah.

My Response:

The Bible teaches:

1Th 5:17  Pray without ceasing.

Bible believing Christians “pray anytime we wish. We pray anywhere we wish.” We do not need a compulsory ritual requiring us to pray five times a day or at stipulated times.

The Bible contains much teaching about prayer. This teaching may be readily accessed by means of CROSS REFERENCE Bible study. Start at any Bible verse about prayer and the cross references will lead you to many more related Bible passages about the subject.

For example, beginning with John 9:31,

Joh 9:31  Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.

The cross references given in The Ultimate Cross Reference Treasury or The New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge are:

John 9:31
heareth not sinners. i.e. wicked men, deceivers and impostors, as Joh 9:24 (De Burgh, p. 259). FS101, +Deut 32:42, Gen 13:13, Deut 1:45, 1Sa 14:37; 1Sa 28:6, +*2Sa 22:42, =2Ch 26:18, *Job 27:8; *Job 27:9; *Job 35:12; *Job 35:13; *Job 42:8, *Psa 18:41; *Psa 34:15-17; Psa 50:16; +**Psa 66:18, 19, 20; Psa 109:7; Psa 140:8, *Pro 1:28; *Pro 1:29; *Pro 15:8; *Pro 15:29; *Pro 21:13; *Pro 28:9, *Isa 1:15; *Isa 58:9; *Isa 59:2, *Jer 11:11; *Jer 14:10, 11, 12; Jer 15:1; Jer 18:17, Lam 3:8; Lam 3:44, *Eze 8:17; *Eze 8:18; +*Eze 14:3; +*Eze 14:14; Eze 20:3; Eze 20:31, Hos 5:6, *Mic 3:4, *Zec 7:13, Mal 1:9, Mat 9:10; Mat 25:12, Luk 7:37, Act 19:13, 14, 15, 16, +*Jas 4:3, 1Jn 5:14; 1Jn 5:16.

if any. FS184C, +Mat 4:9.
a worshipper of God. Psa 33:18; *Psa 34:15; *Psa 34:16; Psa 145:19, *Pro 15:29, Act 10:2, 3, 4, 1Ti 2:10, +*Jas 5:16.

and doeth. T534, T1325, *Joh 4:34; +*Joh 7:17; **Joh 15:16, Job 36:7, Psa 37:4; *Psa 40:8; Psa 86:11; Psa 119:47, 48; *Psa 143:10, Pro 28:9, *Mat 7:21, +1Co 2:9 (T289). Heb 10:7, *1Jn 3:21; *1Jn 3:22.

him he heareth. *Joh 11:22; *Joh 11:41; *Joh 11:42, Gen 18:23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33; Gen 19:29; *Gen 20:7, *1Ki 17:20, 21, 22; *1Ki 18:36, 37, 38, 2Ch 32:20, 21, *Psa 4:3; Psa 10:17; +*Psa 34:15; *Psa 99:6; Psa 106:23; Psa 145:19, Jer 15:1, Luk 18:13, 14, Joh 15:7, Act 10:4, +*Jas 5:15, 16, 17, 18, *1Pe 3:12, +1Jn 5:14; +1Jn 5:16.

TK responded:

Do you actually memorise all these verses?

My reply to TK:

I memorized about 200 verses back when I was in high school. At that time I memorized the book of James as well. Since then, I have read and studied the Bible so much more while preparing to teach my Sunday school classes and still more while preparing The New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, Nelson’s Cross Reference Guide to the Bible, and The Ultimate Cross Reference Treasury, I may know even more Bible verses and their location “by heart.”

TK replied:

those numbers make no sense to me. So you shouldn’t post numbers cos they’re meaningless to me

My reply to TK:

For anyone who knows anything about the Bible, “those numbers” refer to the abbreviated Bible book names, the chapter number, and the verse number. Since you post Bible verses and references yourself, I’m quite sure you know how to look up Bible verses in a printed Bible or by using digital resources to do the same.