I believe it does since each time we do it, we get hooked up to big G who is life himself. Everything that exists, everything that is, draws life from God and it would be impossible to have life if God doesn't give it.
What is prayer and how does it give more life to people?
Prayer is simply communicating with God. Talking with God. The only way we can talk with God who is a spirit is by going to him in spirit and that is what we do in Prayer - Our hearts and mind sync up to his.
Each time we pray, we get formally hooked up to the source of life and our life only increases the more we are connected to him. We were never really meant to be disconnected from God that is why Jesus urges us to pray always.
Nowadays people don't live so long.
Have you wondered why people hardly live long nowadays? You even see young people dying of heart attack in their 30s and you wonder, how come other people in the past lived up to 800 years? It's simple, humanity is getting more and more disconnected from God. If you really want longevity, it only has one source and that is God and the more you are with him, time would be of almost little consequence. The rate and age at which men die daily is disturbing and although this life was not really meant to be permanent, it could have been much longer than the length we currently have.
People refer to the Bible on how God limited man's life to nothing more than a hundred and 20 years. In reality, God never planned for man to live for such a short term but it came later as a curse because of our increasing sinfulness which only comes as a result of prayerlessness.
People of old did more meditation and prayer than we do in our current world. Nowadays, we surround ourselves with a lot of artificial and materialistc thins which take us further away from prayer while in the days of old, people could easily connect with God just by admiring the natural things he created.
Nature has a way of making one live longer
Even our scientists bear witness that natural things give us a much healthier and longer life than processed or man-made things. We seem to want to tamper with everything that God has made in order to make it perfect in our eyes but in reality it becomes corrupted by human nature and takes more life out of our world. Everything that God created in it's natural state has a way of giving life to man such as the plants, animals, clouds and so on but we seem to have replaced these things which magnificient buildings, cars and television all of which add more pollution to our world. Our scientists agree that our world needs to be more green if we are to escape armageddon which is likely to come as a result of increasing global warming. Who knows, when that day comes, maybe people would only get to live for maybe 1 year or so. In the past, humans were much bigger and lived longer and tampered less with the natural world but in our days, we are smaller beings who feel we have no need of God but we take life out of our environment by the things we do.
The truth is that in order to live longer, we need to go back to God.
Prayer cures a lot of ills
When we pray, we get connected to God who heals us from all our physical and spiritual illnesses. It depends on your level of spirituality but there is a level of prayer that you would reach such that even if you had malaria, it would be cured just because you were praying. Different people pray differently as some do it much better than others. Prayers made in faith does a lot of good to our bodies and souls. The more we pray, the more our faith grows, the less we pray, the less it grows. If you are a prayerful person, your presence would do a lot of healing to people in your environment since you will become a vessel to God. A prayerful person in this manner helps to increase the average life span of people he lives with. If you live around people who hardly pray, chances are that they may also be reducing your life span.
Prayer does give long life.
If you were asked how old God is, what would you say? You simply don't know. One would not be wrong in saying that God is older than the earth, moon and universe combined and if scientists have even tried to put an age on the earth to be over 4 billions years, then who knows hold old God would be - That would be scary!
If you pray often, it is only normal that God's longevity would have an impact on your mortal bodies and give you a much healthier and longer life. God has the capacity to ensure that you live a fulfilled life on this earth and still be able to live forever as he does. If God wills, he could even make you avoid death since he has conquered it. God can transform your physical temporary life into an everlasting one because he is everlasting.
It is simple, the more you pray, the more you get life from God and the more likely that your life span would be altered to your own good.
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