Their issue isn't against "praying for what you want" so much as the angle it is coming from. In this context, they describe a practice that is not praying to God, but rather praying on behalf of what one wants. On a deeper level, I can pray to God for what I want, rather than "the universe", but it is not what I think of as "Christian".
God knows what will allow me to fulfill my most important purposes, and that is what He will help me do if I ask and work for it. If I pray for a job and He delivers, it isn't because I wanted it. It's because I made a covenant to care for my wife and children, and to fulfill His command to multiply and replenish the Earth.
"Manifesting" for what I want to the universe is asking the wrong entity for the wrong thing. Seeking what God wants and trying g to align myself to it is Godly. Seeking what I want, without that alignment to God, is giving in to the carnal mind.
Their issue isn't against "praying for what you want" so much as the angle it is coming from. In this context, they describe a practice that is not praying to God, but rather praying on behalf of what one wants. On a deeper level, I can pray to God for what I want, rather than "the universe", but it is not what I think of as "Christian".
God knows what will allow me to fulfill my most important purposes, and that is what He will help me do if I ask and work for it. If I pray for a job and He delivers, it isn't because I wanted it. It's because I made a covenant to care for my wife and children, and to fulfill His command to multiply and replenish the Earth.
"Manifesting" for what I want to the universe is asking the wrong entity for the wrong thing. Seeking what God wants and trying g to align myself to it is Godly. Seeking what I want, without that alignment to God, is giving in to the carnal mind.
Thank you for explaining better. So is Christianity right and every other belief system wrong?