The Devil's Prayer
I would rather ask and have GOD forgive me for my sins than for me to repent from my sins. Use GOD's love and forgiveness to propel my sinful nature and desires.
Dear GOD, thank you for the new car that will add up to my current fleet of seven that you blessed me with earlier. I also thank you for the fuel and engine oil for the new car that you have not blessed me with yet, which you shall. Just like you blessed me with in abundance for the other seven cars. I shall continue using one each week to commute your people to your house for the service and back to their homes after. Not that I care about transporting them in comfort but just because I want to show them how much you bless me in abundance more than them. If you even bless them. Looking at how their lives have been stagnant in terms of progression for over a decade and I have known them for half a decade. Yet you have blessed me more than they have lived on this earth with their faith in you. I put my faith in you that it remains that way for them so that when they look up to you they do so because of me.
My LORD, THOU ART THE HOLY ONE, forgive me. Forgive me for lying, cheating and stealing. In one sentence, forgive me for the corruption. When it comes to corruption on a fraud basis I believe you will forgive me if you understood it from my point. I had to steal the money so that I can sleep well at night knowing I have excess in provision and finances. Between FRAUD TO FINANCE myself and FAITH TO FINANCE myself, I am for the former than the latter. I know fraud is wrong MY LORD and my being engaged in it at work cost some employees their salaries. Some went unpaid for a whole year, whilst those who had your grace upon them got their salaries after every two months but at a tenth of what they were owed. I had to LORD. Steal the money so that I can sleep well at night just in case the Finance and Economic sector goes berserk, I will not go berserk. Would you curse a man with a plague for securing his future LORD? Forgive me O'HOLY ONE for your claim you are HOLY. Just for clarity's sake O'LORD, in the future, if I have more financial insecurities I will opt for FRAUD TO FINANCE than FAITH TO FINANCE. Then opt for FORGIVENESS than me to REPENT. Then I will go back to my sins. See where the blessings of the seven cars came from now?
Dear FATHER WHO ART IN HEAVEN, I praise you that I am employed not once but twice. Formally and informally. Formally by Government, not as a civil servant but as an official and self-employed as an Entrepreneur. I praise you more that I am not hopeless as those who are unemployed to an extent that they can not create employment for themselves after failing to seek it. I pray I do not become like them but I do pray they hope, fast and pray that they become a quarter of what I am or at least if your grace is not upon them they become a tenth of what I am and not what I am at a hundred percent. Why not at a hundred percent? Everyone can not be like me. Just like everyone can not be like you. Some would want to be like you and do or say what may make them imitations of you but will never be. Of what value is it having many gods that are cheap imitations of the real one? Just like them, I pray that they progress to a quarter of what I am. I do so because I want to maintain my relevance just like you want to maintain yours. You will never exalt man to your level and will never hope to do so. Just like I never hope to see those below me be exalted. For it will lead to a scramble for resources that are abundant for the few not for the many. For power and glory is for a few.
YAHWEH, have mercy on my soul if I still have one. I know I still do because I am breathing. My self-pride and self-importance have consumed my soul. Forgive me for my pride. I believe pride does come before the fall, but with this status and relevance I acquire would you see pride to be a sin? With the status that you have should I see your pride to be a sin? At least with my self-pride I still consider the exaltation of others below me but not to be above me. For that, you should have mercy on my soul. If my pride is a sin to you, for some of us it is not. That is how we cover our pain and exert our influence when it still lasts. Unlikely yours that has no duration.
Grant me more of what I have in good abundance. Grant those who are below me less of what you shall grant me. Forgive me and have mercy on my soul for not doing your will but doing mine that is by no doubt more reasonable
AMEN
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