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The Unstoppable Gift

How to improve someone's life without their permission

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Mike Elias
Sep 07, 2023

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Prayer is a gift that can’t be refused.

If I pray for you, you can’t do anything about it.

You don’t even know it’s happening.

You can’t distinguish its effects from any good thing that ever happens to you. Maybe my prayer helped bring a certain good thing about — and maybe it didn’t.

Prayer is a way to help anyone, as much as you want, without their permission.

Prayer is an un-refuseable, unstoppable, and permissionless gift.

Imagine sitting in your basement, mischievously plotting to bless the smithereens out of someone, knowing they’re powerless to prevent it.

Whose life would you force to improve?

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