“God Throws Our Sins Away, Not Our Prayers.”
Genesis 32:24-30; Psalm 66:18-20; Ephesians 6:18
Did you ever wonder why God puts up with us in our feeble ways of communication, determining within ourselves, what is an acceptable prayer and what is not? We pray certain prayers and say, surely God will hear that one, and then we pray and say, God will not answer this other one because it is so trivial. We should pour our hearts out in prayer whether they are pleasing to us or not. We should weep over the earnestness of our prayers; look how cold and indifferent we have made our so-called supplications. We should enter our prayer closet daily, not just when enormous trials come, and we are overtaken by a panic attack. We should hunger to go there for communication, to lay out our petitions, repent of our faint condition and our lack of concern. Where is that humility that is needed to care for others? Where is that faith that perseveres with believing? Can you say like Jacob of old, “I will not let you go, except you bless me.”
God does hear our feeble, weak, and cold requests as well as the fiery hot prayers that seemingly ring the rafters of Heaven. Look how God has blessed when we thought He wouldn’t, and the many times we knew we didn’t deserve it. We come to Him helplessly weeping, and He hears and comforts, and then we neglect to talk to Him and He shows mercy, what a loving, caring God we have. It is easy to pray and say thank you, when mercies are obviously plentiful, and we’re not overshadowed by many sorrows; But it is another matter when circumstances drives us to fall on our faces in agony. How is your prayer-life friend?
“Pray Without Ceasing”
Praying always is the key to success,
Not big or little, just praying is best.
~ Tom Milam
Daily Jewel:
“We should weep over the earnestness of our prayers.”
Bible Reading Schedule: II Chronicles 10-13
Weekly Memory Verses: 1 Peter 2:1-5
1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
3 If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
4 ¶To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,
5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
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