Do You Think it is Healthy to Pray For Your Enemies?? ..... Is it Beneficial?

Matthew 5:43-48 (New International Version) 43"You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor[a] and hate your enemy.' 44But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. 46If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? 47And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? 48Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect. Jesus was teaching us that we should grow to another level than what humans are in the habit of doing. We should hope that those that do us harm or insult us might have a change of heart and see the error of their ways. Look what happened to the apostle Paul! This was a radical teaching then and so it is now. But as individuals we can be different. We can try to be like Jesus and his Father. Unlike Jesus and God we cannot read human hearts. So we work and pray that even our enemies might make positive changes in their lives and come to see God's ways!

I think it's not a problem about health, but it's all about problem of kindness. If we can easily pray for our enemies and we can forgive them, such things are good things and actually if we have positive mindset we can easily find if such things have many benefit for us. No need to hate other people anymore, and we can easily releasing our emotional energy. Keeping hate inside our heart or keeping emotional energy too much is bad for our health and it could causing many diseases. So, if you have enemies now and you don't know how to release your hate and emotional, just pray for them and forgive them. Good luck and have a nice day. Happy mylotting.

It's the Bible that says love thy enemies as you love yourself. Yes, it is hard to do. I think you get back whatever you put out there. Put out bad karma, you get bad back. Put out good karma, you get good back. Yes, I have prayed for my enemies & felt good about it!!! [i]Leviticus 19:18: 18Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.[/i]

I think it's difficult to pray for my enemy, though I really don't have such kind of enemy. I once heard of such statement, but just shrugged shoulder. If there was an enemy one day, I wouldn't pray for him either. It's perfectly straightforward that I'm not a saint, or I just a normal people. The best thing I can do is to have a fair competition without a curse.

it is not easy loving those that persecute you or stab you in the back. it is even worse if the one that hates you is a member of your family. as the bible says, "a man worst enemy are members of his household. all said, to remain healthy forgive thos that hate you, return love for hatred. you will live long. christ says in so doing, you will be pouring coals of fire on those that hate you.