Reference the popular -demand by our numerous readers; cutting across the different classes of people, tribes, nationalities resident both home and abroad who were craving to be acquainted with some facts and not fallacy, on some mysterious subject-matters regarding power of prayers, impacts of faith and what value does God gives to prayer, through the various religions that exist all over the world; we deem it necessary on our part to go extra -length in making sure we dig-down into the subject-matter, on what 'prayer is all about, by starting from the right root; our locality, by proximity hence, our on-line editorial engaged the attention and understanding of a notable but young prophet of our time, in respect of Prophet Odekunle Epaphras of Comfort Life Mission International Church, located around Temidire Market, Opposite Wema Bank on the New-Ife Road along Gbagi Titun, Ibadan, who revealed some great facts and ideas about the importance of 'prayer', impact of faith to it and what importance God gives to both prayer through faith as scripturally emphasized that " Without faith no one can please God"
On this he corroborated his facts and ideas, with citing some quotations thus-wise Jeremiah 33:3 , Hebrew 11:1 with making references to some instances about some great people of 'faith' like Abraham, Moses, Paul, Sarah and Hannah; stressing his facts to explain better, that there are three categories of responses God 'who answers prayers', always takes to react to human-beings' prayers, regardless of the religion any 'prayers' may be, hence he called one; automatic-prayer for automatic-answer, the second; a delayed-answer, while the third type of God's response is 'outright -no!
-Here he tag the first type to the instance of Bartholomew's case of eye-restoration through Jesus Christ,which immediately he called on the Lord thus"Jesus Christ ; the son of David; please have mercy on me", his sight was restored.
-The second type of instance is that of Abraham and Sarah his wife who while they had asked God for at-least a child God later gave them a child; Isaac , at their old age.
-The third type of instance is that of Moses and Paul which God out-rightly refused Moses from reaching the promised-land and that of Paul after he had prayed God did not grant answer to his request but emphasized to Paul that "My grace is enough for you".
By and Large, this aforementioned- introduction or rather 'promo' to our exclusive interview with this man of God is of popular demand by many to be run in the language(Yoruba) by which we did the interview, in order to make intact and well outlined the richness and contextual quality of it, hence we are obliged to make sure since "There's no way to anywhere than to start from where one is", then we arrived at the conclusion that it behooves us to change our style in language at-least, if only for this exclusive-interview, yet we are not promising that we may not do so again, in near future or at intermittently, to be changing languages of our writing, as the time, nature, quality, taste, and circumstance warrant us to do, all is just to bring 'variety' into the worth of our responsibility to the readership, as "Variety is the spice of Life", so by adopting our native-language, this time around does not indicate any short-comings on the part of neither our guest nor our editorial.
Thanks and be expecting a loaded and contextually but factual, rich and wholeness of the interview soon !
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