While you question why your prayers are not answered, have you asked yourself, ‘Am I asking aright or based on bad motives’?
While you question why your prayers are not answered, have you asked yourself, ‘Am I asking aright or based on bad motives’?
Why do we ever entertain the thought of our prayers not being answered? Are we so fixated on what we think the answers should be that we become blind to what He answers?
When things are at their worst and we are pushed to the wall, it’s not our wisdom, salvation, or church attendance that gets us through the storm, but doing what we hear God say is what will get us through the storm!
Are you going through difficulties of life that come as unrelenting waves of the ocean? Have past betrayals robbed you of trusting anyone to speak to about your challenges? You are not alone!
In their journey to the Promised Land Israel learnt that victory comes through faith in the living God and obedience to His word, rather than through military might or numerical superiority. Where is your strength?
Of the over 3 million people that left Egypt only Joshua and Caleb lived to enter the Promised Land. What had they seen of the Lord in their journey of life so far that others did not see? Why did the others fail to see the same?
The Psalmist declared in Psalm 141:3 a concise plea for God to station Himself as both guard and watchman over everything he says; recognising the destructive power of the tongue and our inability to control it.
When we read or listen to God’s word and do not obey it, applying it to practical living we deceive ourselves because we are settling for knowledge rather than experience and that is sin.
Brethren, we must be convinced that spiritual warfare is different and cannot be fought at an intellectual level. We’re not wrestling with flesh and blood, but against principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness and spiritual hosts of wickedness.
Rather than engage in the ongoing distraction about elections, the church needs to awake from slumber, repent of its sin of compromise typical of Laodicea and pray!
(c) The Christian Brethren Church