Prayer in Preterit Tense
A Japanese doctor found and believed existence of spirits and the spirit world. He even cured his own diseases by using his spiritual power and lived till over the age of 100.
Nobuo Shioya (1902-2008) once in his 20s performed spiritual healing in the University of Tokyo Hospital and a patient was cured, but he was forced to leave the Hospital due to performing an unauthorized healing method. Afterwards, he freely pursued spiritual matters and held a seance many times in Tokyo while working as a physician. He became a successful medical doctor managing his own clinic.
He found that breathing was a key to life, so that he formulated a controlling method of breath with ethically cleansed mind for promoting health. But, he also formulated a way to have one's wish come true.
According to his theory, one has to ask God anything as if it were already accomplished. One has to use preterit tense when praying to God. And then it would come true. Christ Jesus indeed said that when one prayed, he had to believe that it had already come true:
24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. (Mark 11)So, if many people in this world prayed for peace to God, thinking that peace already came, peace would surely come in this world.
At one occasion In 1950s, Shioya communicated with his own guardian angel who predicted that a great tragedy should fall on the mankind 60 years later. He then thought and replied that it would be after his own death. The angel said that yes, it would be. Indeed, Shioya died in 2008, and in 2011, the Fukushima nuclear accident occurred, and in 2022, the Ukraine war started. We are really proceeding to a global natural crisis or WWIII. Although Shioya was not a Christian, he noted various Christian prophecies including warnings by Virgin Mary in her apparition. So, even a Japanese spirit who worked as guardian angel for a Japanese doctor gave a similar warning. We had better believe it.
It is said that many patients recovered after practicing his method. Shioya himself cured his disease by applying his own method to live until the age of 105. When he prayed for longevity to the God when he was 60 or 70 years old, Shioya must have thought that he had already lived over 100.
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Mark 7, King James Version
18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
20 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.