God only helps those who helps themselves?
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God. (cheating) This explanation is what everyone eventually resorts to when the other answers fail. Now, before I go any further, I should make clear that I'm not talking about any of the gods defined in various religions. Throughout all of human history, we've been trying to explain existence. But nobody has ever succeeded. And it's likely that nobody ever will. So we create the concept of God, whose only necessary property is being "that which explains existence." \n\nThis doesn't tell us much about god, though. It doesn't mean that any particular religion is correct. It merely defines god as something which answers The Question, because we have not been able to.
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Absolutely!\n\nJesus said, "apart from me you can do nothing." (John 15:5) once realizing this I know that I must depend on God all day every day or else I'll fall. In order to do this you must be willing to sacrifice YOUR will for HIS will and there inlays the passage, "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me." (Matthew 16:24)
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You can't help somebody who doesn't want help. "ask and you shall be given" It is one's own obligation to become what one wants to become. Probably helping is not the right word, I would go more for not obstructing them more. Plus there are individuals in 3rd world countries that live like in 1st world countries and people in 1st world countries that live like 3rd world countries so I guess nowadays it's not about 1st world or 3rd world, it's about individuals in one world. What I do believe is that the strong should help the weak but to a physical extent only.
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God is always beside us, the thing is that people need him more in hard times.\n\nI just don't see the relation between your question and the personal information you have given?
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I taught my son to pray for others just as he prays for himself...actually more than he prays for his own needs..but to pray for the needs of others..and to be an answer to prayer if given the opportunity to help another person ..to always be watchful to those in need you may be the answer to someone elses prayer
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ok,we can do nothing apart from God,Jesus said actually commanded us to love one another,however we cannot do this without Gods help,as for intercessory prayers that is when you feel led by the Holy Spirit to pray for someone other than yourself
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Good Question:  \n\nAsk and it shall be given to you; Seek, and ye shall find; Knock, and it shall be opened to you.” – Matthew 7:7\n\n“The gods help them that help themselves.” -- Aesop\n \nIn all cases, it is you who have to make anything happen.
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not enough to help those ungratful people who you're helping
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the only spiritual guide is.......the Lord
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Ask them where in the Bible it says, "God helps those who help themselves." Just remember that people want to argue and think that they can "bull" their way through sounding like an intellectual. It won't work with God, so they should just be honest with themselves.
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Did it ever occur  to you that people don't do everything to gain something for themselves but only out of love?\nPeople who are interested in helping you believe in God only want to share what they have found with you. \nYou are still free to reject it and they should respect your choice.
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I thought only God could help you. You can take anything to God and he will listen, your preacher doesn't really care it just makes him look better to the church if he acts like he cares.
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God doesn't. Their government does by blocking/stealing help. Another work of Satan.
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God doesn't leave people to kill each other, unless they choose to.  God did not make man a robot but a creature who can choose right or wrong.  He doesn't want people to starve but many starving nations do not believe in Him, nor call on Him for intervention.  However, missionaries are going into those places and doing a good work.  Others who are Christians and being tortured are victims of an evil power over them in the form of govt.  They are martyrs for their faith.  Many of us have prayed for our brothers and sisters in Sudan for years and we see our prayers answered.  Other Christians have gone in and rescued those being tortured as slaves by the govt.  They are receiving help.  It doesn't matter where you are born, you can always chose to believe in God.  God knows us even before we are designed in our mother's womb.  I came from a non-christian home but I chose to follow after Him, seek Him, serve Him.  I am not exempt from trials, persecution and sorrows of life but I have divine joy and peace because of the hope He brings me.  It is all a matter of faith.  Either believe or not believe.  I'm one who says there are vast rewards to having faith where there is otherwise total hopelessness.  Press on!
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dont expect god to look afteryou every second-\ngod helps only those who help themselves\nhe provided us wid lightning rod and its our responsibility to use it .
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It is not true that whatever we do, God gets it done by us.\nU don't see God Gave us free will But also Showed the right path...\n\nSo whatever we do is our own deeds.. If we do good, God is happy with us,\n& if we do bad deeds, God Obviously will punish!\n\n\nJust take this example..\nGod is our Creater...\nSimilarly A person or an electronics company creates a TV or VCR of DVD Player...\n\nSO ..\nThe company give an instruction manual with its product..\njust like God sent us to this world with Bible/ Quran etc..\n\nNow see!\nWhen the VCR does not work properly, we take it to a repair shop, if it does not still work properly, we throw it in trash...\nTHIS is a punishment for the VCR...\nSimilarly, when we dont follow the instructions from GOD, God will punish us.
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It is by Gods grace that we are granted mercy. This is the help in our time of need because we cannot earn our salvation, we recieve it as gift from God.\n\nHebrews 4:16 \nLet us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.\n\nEphesians 2:8\nFor it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—