Ask Bob #101: When Is It Okay to Pray for Personal Benefit?

Bob Young
8 min readMar 10, 2019

Can prayer be selfish?

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Today’s Question: “Is it selfish to pray for healing for ourselves or others? How about praying for success when we’re looking for a job? Sometimes prayer seems self-serving, but didn’t Jesus teach us to ask for these benefits?”

My Answer: Now, Friend, there’s a tricky question that never goes away! On the one…

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Bob Young

CISO, Director of Information Security, and Security Consultant. Also, I wrote some books that have nothing to do with IT. http://www.amazon.com/author/bobyoung