PRAYER LIST FOR ROCK STARS A site to promote prayer for rock stars, actors and others associated with the entertainment industry.
PRAYER LIST FOR ROCK STARS A site to promote prayer for rock stars, actors and others associated with the entertainment industry.
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There are a number of celebrities who pray or request prayer but of whom we know no certain knowledge of Christian faith, or for whom her faith might include, in some degree, sexy posing and dancing.
In the case of Ariana Grande, while lacking Catholic faith, she has been repeatedly photographed as posing with her hands and arms in the gesture commonly regarded as of Christian prayer!
She is also reported to be praying or encouraging prayer for those injured or hurt by the Manchester bombing. She has also, on twitter, responded to an abusive troll by indicating that she was praying for him!
Praying for and blessing one's enemies is a challenge for at least some professing Christians!
Romans 12:14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.
Grande is reported to have abandoned the Catholic faith due to the ideas of God sending people to hell and/or rejecting her brother for homosexuality.
So, though we might say her faith is not Catholic and influenced to greater or lesser degree by Kaballah, we can include the fact that she prays and includes in her praying persons injured and persons who might be considered enemies!
We might have thought that praying for one's enemies is primarily or exclusively a Christian idea, (Mt 5:43,44) but it appears to be found, amazingly, in the life of Grande and perhaps more celebrities who lack explicit Christian faith. I know substantial numbers of Christians who do not think, at first, in response to abuse or persecution, of praying for their abusers or persecutors!
The Jews at the time of Jesus are reported to have debated how far and to whom the command to love one's neighbor applies. One major innovation of the teaching of Jesus, in comparison to the Jews of his day, is alleged to be that Jesus expands the command to love to include enemies.
The question is whether or not Grande gets the idea of praying for her enemies or abusive people from Jesus via Matthew or Luke or Paul the apostle or if praying for one's enemies is also found in the Kaballah teachings!
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