What a poignant, proper, and beautiful article this is! I love it when I may be expecting something else from you and then you surprise us with a wonderful "bonus", as we start our day! I especially LOVE that this is essentially about communication with God through good & bad times and relationship building (why I said "proper"), & not about "the power of prayer" as people forget: that "power".. IS God & without God there is nothing! Even as I practice exactly what you write here, it still stirs up emotions thinking about the amazing relationship and open line of communication God has given us! This article is also an answer to my prayers for you as well; as I always pray for you, that the Father continually "supplies" you with inspiration, protection, & energy to do the superb, delicate, and intricate work that you are SO amazingly proficient at! He knows how much you help, inspire, comfort & inform others and help prime their mind & spirits to seek the Lord! I could not be more grateful for you & to be able to be on this journey to eternity with you! God bless you and all who read this! ..and even those who do not lol ;) <3
"Jesus came down to experience our harsh reality in the flesh and He didn’t snap his fingers and make it all go away."
Oh yea THAT!
When ppl have asked me in the past "If God is "all powerful" why doesnt He just "fix" everything or "snap His fingers to fix everything" (as we've ALL been asked provokingly by non believers), I just say "If you caught someone doing something to betray you and had the ability to "snap you fingers/go back in time" and make the deceit "not happen".. it STILL would have happened!
God "snapping His fingers and fixing everything" would have been to simply destroy the world outright..but He loved us enough to give us a way out! Amen! :)
Thank You, for all you do. I so look forward to your emails every so often. I wish I had the articulation you have. I have a lot of trouble trying to get my point across to others. What's in my head doesn't seem to come out of my mouth. I pray for understanding His Word, and that the words would come in a way that is more convincing. Sometimes I just don't sound very intelligent. Things have been so much more peaceful and calm since I express my gratefulness for all He has done for me. My home, food, health, etc. My anxiety and worry has greatly diminished. I know He is in control, and all I need is patience. Again Thank You for your uplifting words. I look forward to your next article or video. Mark
You have reminded me of truth that maybe I haven’t forgot,but it hasn’t been first in my mind and heart,as always may the GOOD LORD continue to bless and keep you,thanks!
Alexandra, I want to thank you, and share with you what all your investigative research has done for me.
Between 2017-2021 I was deeply ensconced in the new age/occult. I was saved in June 2023 and became a dispensationalist/independent fundamental baptist. I had vetted the ‘denominations’ and institutional churches to the best of my ability and came to believe that the dispensational IFBs were the closest to what is doctrinally and eschatologically described in Scripture.
By a miracle, I was watching a Bible study by Matt Crane (a false prophet) through which I was introduced to you by an excerpt he used in his video from ‘An Inconvenient Reality’ concerning the Great Reset/Great Awakening bifurcation. The information hit home. I found your YouTube channel and began listening to your videos while at work. I was listening to ‘An Inconvenient History’, and I get to the point where dispensationalism is addressed. The spirit of denial which overcame me was impressive. After a few minutes of trying to give ear to that portion of the video, I shut it off and continued on with my previous studies. It wasn’t too long after that the Holy Spirit guided me back to your videos, and broke me free of the dispensational spell.
Your research has since showed me just how strong the occult infiltration of institutional Christianity is, and through your work the Holy Spirit has guided me to withdraw my trust in man’s teaching (Bible studies, commentary, and “Churchianity” as a whole), to instead rest on God alone, and to conduct my own active, independent research. Your research has been extremely helpful in getting me started.
This article arrived right on time for me because I’m not comfortable with maintaining my independent baptist church membership, however I knew isolation is equally detrimental. However, I have no relationships, let alone deep connections, with fellow believers and right now I need the strength found in prayer to help me through this time of transition.
Thank you, Alexandra. Your work has been of the utmost support to me over the past month during which I’ve never felt more alone. Yet you’ve helped to strengthen my relationship with Jesus and I couldn’t be any more grateful for you.
Omg.. what perfect words! I know I have stepped back in prayer with so much sadness going on in my life. Why? Foolishness. I need my Father more now than in good times. Thanks @probablyalexiandria for reminding me!!! Thanks for always being there and your honesty is beautiful! Love you doll!😘
For my family, been going thru one trial after the other for the last three years , I’m becoming very discouraged and feel very alone never have I encountered the storms I’ve been walking through
Dec 15, 2023·edited Dec 15, 2023Liked by Probablyalexandra
Thank you, Alexandra, for another timely and well thought out article. I don't think one could ever overstate the importance of prayer for those intent on following the Lord. The thing that amazes me the most is how Jesus would literally spend entire nights doing nothing but praying to the Father. I so much wish I could see and hear one of those all night prayer vigils. That may sound odd, but I would so much love to see and hear and know how he prayed, what he said, etc. We know a few of his prayers. He was always submitting his will to his Father's will. I think those moments in prayer were preserved for us as the highest examples of how we should pray.
As for me, my prayer request would be for me to have a more consistent prayer life. Other types of activities I find much easier, such as being regularly in Scripture. But it so often seems like the most difficult thing in the world is to stop everything and spend a few simple moments in focused prayer. I do talk to God throughout the day, and I know that's important, but the focused time, like those prayer vigils of Jesus, are in some ways I think even more important. I'm convinced that the enemy does not want us to pray, and that's why it seems so much like pulling teeth to actually, as Petra put it, "get on your knees and fight like a man." And yet, once I'm actually there praying, I usually have the sense that this is the only place I ever actually want to be. How could communing with my creator ever be eclipsed by anything else in all of time or eternity!
I also don't have a "church home," so that would be another prayer request, as many others have indicated. Not necessarily to find a physical church to attend, but rather to find other believers IRL to have fellowship with. I have a few, but it's not easy to find / make time to spend in fellowship with everyone's modern-day overbooked schedules.
I'm wondering what people think about something that I have begun doing. I have a written list of all the people I've known throughout my life ... well, I'm still adding to it, it's incomplete ... and I use it often (not always, but frequently) when I pray to basically pray for everyone I've ever known, and their families. But it's a long list, since I've been around the block more than a few times. Paul wrote in some of his letters that he always mentions everyone in his prayers. Like, all the people he knows in the churches he founded. That's what gave me the idea. Wondering if others do something similar? I sometimes do it without the written list, but inevitably I forget people, so having it written down is important to me.
Thanks to everyone who prays for me, and I will also pray for others here as well. Blessings to you all.
Hello Alexandra! I've communicated with you before. My name is Lucio. I have been following your articles and videos and find them refreshing and informative. I pray for you lots.
A good friend of mine recently passed away. He helped me quite a bit and cared for me. I used to help him out at the local convenience store.
Once again, I'm searching for God's direction for my life. Please continue to pray for me.
As always, I pray for the Lord's blessings on you.
That's some crazy timing. Just thinking about this last night. That I should pray more, but maybe I've never done it the proper way. Excellent write up, cheers!
Thank you for your wisdom and insightful work that fills in the definite void of institutional Christianity, that I have serious wrestling with as a Jewish Believer, your latest post today for the holiday season really helps – it’s “spot on” ☝️😃
Does anyone have any advice on what I can do in regards to Christmas day? Every year since 2019 I have spent the time alone, and honestly don't think I can do it again this year. The majority of my family I am estranged from, and are also non-believers. Only my grandmother believes in God, but I don't live close to her. She's suggested going to church, but I am unsure how to proceed. As in, do I go to a baptist church? Are there any kinds I should avoid? Like catholic? Orthodox? This is where I feel lost, naive, but feel the need to find one in my area that I can go to soon. If anyone has any advice I would be so grateful.
Thanks for reminding us the great importance of prayers. Christians who don't pray, or at least do not pray much, effectively believe that they can live life and serve God through their own effort alone. Certainly not biblical.
One thing I would add to prayer that is important, as part of our humility before God, is to confess our known sins to Him. Also, as Jesus told us, before we approach God (ex:L presenting a gift or "sacrifice"), we should reconcile with those we have sinned against. God's grace is great, but being in an unrepentant state of sin before God and man could hinder our sins, along with blinding our hearts and minds from what we should be praying about. And yes, we do NOT know how to pray (the Holy Spirit says what is needed), but we still need to TRY to pray. This also might explain why we sometimes get something different than we asked for, not so much the wrong "gift" (ex: scorpion instead of egg).
On a related note, even though I agree that we should pray from both our mind and heart (emotions), I would say that praying in the "spirit" has more to do with not praying while in the flesh, that is as a Christian, in a state of unrepentant sin. I definitely can only guess what the "human spirit" is, but the Bible speaks of it. It is also interesting that it apparently differs from the "soul," and only The Word of God (both the Bible and JESUS) can divide asunder the two.
Prayer can be a hard thing to do. I think we should try to dedicate a set time each day when to do it. I know that being heart-felt in prayer is important, but I have over the years found it also helpful to have developed certain things to say in my prayers that is repeatable each time (but I do often change those certain things), with the goal of trying to cover a lot of territory. Sometimes I go into more detail, naming specific people with needs. I have learned the hard but important lesson of praying and BLESSING my enemies. I am sure all of us have a long way to go to not only love others as ourselves (not to mention loving God the way the Bible COMMANDS us to), but to love our enemies, and return good for evil regarding them. One thing I have learned to do, at least as a minimum, is that God blesses my enemies so greatly in ways that would cause them to move out of my orbit in my life that is causing them to be my enemy. And yes, that is hard to do, but God has answered that prayer quite a few times in my life.
What a poignant, proper, and beautiful article this is! I love it when I may be expecting something else from you and then you surprise us with a wonderful "bonus", as we start our day! I especially LOVE that this is essentially about communication with God through good & bad times and relationship building (why I said "proper"), & not about "the power of prayer" as people forget: that "power".. IS God & without God there is nothing! Even as I practice exactly what you write here, it still stirs up emotions thinking about the amazing relationship and open line of communication God has given us! This article is also an answer to my prayers for you as well; as I always pray for you, that the Father continually "supplies" you with inspiration, protection, & energy to do the superb, delicate, and intricate work that you are SO amazingly proficient at! He knows how much you help, inspire, comfort & inform others and help prime their mind & spirits to seek the Lord! I could not be more grateful for you & to be able to be on this journey to eternity with you! God bless you and all who read this! ..and even those who do not lol ;) <3
"Jesus came down to experience our harsh reality in the flesh and He didn’t snap his fingers and make it all go away."
Oh yea THAT!
When ppl have asked me in the past "If God is "all powerful" why doesnt He just "fix" everything or "snap His fingers to fix everything" (as we've ALL been asked provokingly by non believers), I just say "If you caught someone doing something to betray you and had the ability to "snap you fingers/go back in time" and make the deceit "not happen".. it STILL would have happened!
God "snapping His fingers and fixing everything" would have been to simply destroy the world outright..but He loved us enough to give us a way out! Amen! :)
Thank You, for all you do. I so look forward to your emails every so often. I wish I had the articulation you have. I have a lot of trouble trying to get my point across to others. What's in my head doesn't seem to come out of my mouth. I pray for understanding His Word, and that the words would come in a way that is more convincing. Sometimes I just don't sound very intelligent. Things have been so much more peaceful and calm since I express my gratefulness for all He has done for me. My home, food, health, etc. My anxiety and worry has greatly diminished. I know He is in control, and all I need is patience. Again Thank You for your uplifting words. I look forward to your next article or video. Mark
You have reminded me of truth that maybe I haven’t forgot,but it hasn’t been first in my mind and heart,as always may the GOOD LORD continue to bless and keep you,thanks!
Thank you, I needed this!
Alexandra, I want to thank you, and share with you what all your investigative research has done for me.
Between 2017-2021 I was deeply ensconced in the new age/occult. I was saved in June 2023 and became a dispensationalist/independent fundamental baptist. I had vetted the ‘denominations’ and institutional churches to the best of my ability and came to believe that the dispensational IFBs were the closest to what is doctrinally and eschatologically described in Scripture.
By a miracle, I was watching a Bible study by Matt Crane (a false prophet) through which I was introduced to you by an excerpt he used in his video from ‘An Inconvenient Reality’ concerning the Great Reset/Great Awakening bifurcation. The information hit home. I found your YouTube channel and began listening to your videos while at work. I was listening to ‘An Inconvenient History’, and I get to the point where dispensationalism is addressed. The spirit of denial which overcame me was impressive. After a few minutes of trying to give ear to that portion of the video, I shut it off and continued on with my previous studies. It wasn’t too long after that the Holy Spirit guided me back to your videos, and broke me free of the dispensational spell.
Your research has since showed me just how strong the occult infiltration of institutional Christianity is, and through your work the Holy Spirit has guided me to withdraw my trust in man’s teaching (Bible studies, commentary, and “Churchianity” as a whole), to instead rest on God alone, and to conduct my own active, independent research. Your research has been extremely helpful in getting me started.
This article arrived right on time for me because I’m not comfortable with maintaining my independent baptist church membership, however I knew isolation is equally detrimental. However, I have no relationships, let alone deep connections, with fellow believers and right now I need the strength found in prayer to help me through this time of transition.
Thank you, Alexandra. Your work has been of the utmost support to me over the past month during which I’ve never felt more alone. Yet you’ve helped to strengthen my relationship with Jesus and I couldn’t be any more grateful for you.
Omg.. what perfect words! I know I have stepped back in prayer with so much sadness going on in my life. Why? Foolishness. I need my Father more now than in good times. Thanks @probablyalexiandria for reminding me!!! Thanks for always being there and your honesty is beautiful! Love you doll!😘
Alexandra, you are a woman after God's heart and faithfully pursuing the Mind of Christ. Blessings!
Please if you could pray
For my family, been going thru one trial after the other for the last three years , I’m becoming very discouraged and feel very alone never have I encountered the storms I’ve been walking through
Thank you, Alexandra, for another timely and well thought out article. I don't think one could ever overstate the importance of prayer for those intent on following the Lord. The thing that amazes me the most is how Jesus would literally spend entire nights doing nothing but praying to the Father. I so much wish I could see and hear one of those all night prayer vigils. That may sound odd, but I would so much love to see and hear and know how he prayed, what he said, etc. We know a few of his prayers. He was always submitting his will to his Father's will. I think those moments in prayer were preserved for us as the highest examples of how we should pray.
As for me, my prayer request would be for me to have a more consistent prayer life. Other types of activities I find much easier, such as being regularly in Scripture. But it so often seems like the most difficult thing in the world is to stop everything and spend a few simple moments in focused prayer. I do talk to God throughout the day, and I know that's important, but the focused time, like those prayer vigils of Jesus, are in some ways I think even more important. I'm convinced that the enemy does not want us to pray, and that's why it seems so much like pulling teeth to actually, as Petra put it, "get on your knees and fight like a man." And yet, once I'm actually there praying, I usually have the sense that this is the only place I ever actually want to be. How could communing with my creator ever be eclipsed by anything else in all of time or eternity!
I also don't have a "church home," so that would be another prayer request, as many others have indicated. Not necessarily to find a physical church to attend, but rather to find other believers IRL to have fellowship with. I have a few, but it's not easy to find / make time to spend in fellowship with everyone's modern-day overbooked schedules.
I'm wondering what people think about something that I have begun doing. I have a written list of all the people I've known throughout my life ... well, I'm still adding to it, it's incomplete ... and I use it often (not always, but frequently) when I pray to basically pray for everyone I've ever known, and their families. But it's a long list, since I've been around the block more than a few times. Paul wrote in some of his letters that he always mentions everyone in his prayers. Like, all the people he knows in the churches he founded. That's what gave me the idea. Wondering if others do something similar? I sometimes do it without the written list, but inevitably I forget people, so having it written down is important to me.
Thanks to everyone who prays for me, and I will also pray for others here as well. Blessings to you all.
Amen ! Being thankful proves our faith.
Hello Alexandra! I've communicated with you before. My name is Lucio. I have been following your articles and videos and find them refreshing and informative. I pray for you lots.
A good friend of mine recently passed away. He helped me quite a bit and cared for me. I used to help him out at the local convenience store.
Once again, I'm searching for God's direction for my life. Please continue to pray for me.
As always, I pray for the Lord's blessings on you.
Peace :)
That's some crazy timing. Just thinking about this last night. That I should pray more, but maybe I've never done it the proper way. Excellent write up, cheers!
Thank you for your wisdom and insightful work that fills in the definite void of institutional Christianity, that I have serious wrestling with as a Jewish Believer, your latest post today for the holiday season really helps – it’s “spot on” ☝️😃
Does anyone have any advice on what I can do in regards to Christmas day? Every year since 2019 I have spent the time alone, and honestly don't think I can do it again this year. The majority of my family I am estranged from, and are also non-believers. Only my grandmother believes in God, but I don't live close to her. She's suggested going to church, but I am unsure how to proceed. As in, do I go to a baptist church? Are there any kinds I should avoid? Like catholic? Orthodox? This is where I feel lost, naive, but feel the need to find one in my area that I can go to soon. If anyone has any advice I would be so grateful.
Thanks for reminding us the great importance of prayers. Christians who don't pray, or at least do not pray much, effectively believe that they can live life and serve God through their own effort alone. Certainly not biblical.
One thing I would add to prayer that is important, as part of our humility before God, is to confess our known sins to Him. Also, as Jesus told us, before we approach God (ex:L presenting a gift or "sacrifice"), we should reconcile with those we have sinned against. God's grace is great, but being in an unrepentant state of sin before God and man could hinder our sins, along with blinding our hearts and minds from what we should be praying about. And yes, we do NOT know how to pray (the Holy Spirit says what is needed), but we still need to TRY to pray. This also might explain why we sometimes get something different than we asked for, not so much the wrong "gift" (ex: scorpion instead of egg).
On a related note, even though I agree that we should pray from both our mind and heart (emotions), I would say that praying in the "spirit" has more to do with not praying while in the flesh, that is as a Christian, in a state of unrepentant sin. I definitely can only guess what the "human spirit" is, but the Bible speaks of it. It is also interesting that it apparently differs from the "soul," and only The Word of God (both the Bible and JESUS) can divide asunder the two.
Prayer can be a hard thing to do. I think we should try to dedicate a set time each day when to do it. I know that being heart-felt in prayer is important, but I have over the years found it also helpful to have developed certain things to say in my prayers that is repeatable each time (but I do often change those certain things), with the goal of trying to cover a lot of territory. Sometimes I go into more detail, naming specific people with needs. I have learned the hard but important lesson of praying and BLESSING my enemies. I am sure all of us have a long way to go to not only love others as ourselves (not to mention loving God the way the Bible COMMANDS us to), but to love our enemies, and return good for evil regarding them. One thing I have learned to do, at least as a minimum, is that God blesses my enemies so greatly in ways that would cause them to move out of my orbit in my life that is causing them to be my enemy. And yes, that is hard to do, but God has answered that prayer quite a few times in my life.
Thank you Alexandra for your wise words and encouragements. You are such a beautiful soul and just the thought of you makes me feel happy and blessed.