Are “YOU” The Reason Your Prayers Aren’t Answered?
We must do those things that are pleasing in His sight. There are many things which would be pleasing to God for us to do which He has not specifically commanded us to do. When you love someone you don’t just do the things they ask you to do, you want to do special things, extra things, to please them. That is how we should be with God. A true child of God should not need a specific command, he will want to do the things that are pleasing to his Father. Maybe this is the reason for many unanswered prayers; we are not going to the trouble to find out what pleases God. Many times we feel a slight twinge of guilt about something we are doing, but comfort ourselves with the fact that nowhere in the Bible does it say that we cannot do that thing. The question should be is our heavenly father pleased with what we are doing? There may not be any harm in what we are doing, but is it robbing our prayer of power?
R.A.Torrey says,
“If we would have power in prayer, we must be earnest students of His word to find out what His will regarding us is, and then having found it, do it. One unconfessed act of disobedience on our part will shut the ear of God against many petitions.”
There may be many reasons why God hasn’t answered some of your prayers… don’t let one of them be you.
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