PRAYERS NOT ANSWERED 1: WRONG MOTIVES
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. Prayers Not Answered
Matthew 7:11
“If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!”
a) This verse tells us that God is ready to answer our prayers and supply our needs. So why are all our prayers not answered? Why does it seem that God sometimes does not hear us? What is going on when it seems like our prayers are not getting any higher than the ceiling?
1. Prayers Not AnsweredMatthew 7:11
“If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!”
a) This verse tells us that God is ready to answer our prayers and supply our needs. So why are all our prayers not answered? Why does it seem that God sometimes does not hear us? What is going on when it seems like our prayers are not getting any higher than the ceiling?
2. Wrong Motives
a) “You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions” (James 4:3). It is so important for the Christian to evaluate his or her life from time to time. Are our motives pure? Are we doing what we are doing for God’s glory, or our own? James tells us here that we must ask with the right motives. Sometimes we can ask for the right things, but for the wrong motives. This could be the reason our prayers are not being answered.
The End ...
a) “You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions” (James 4:3). It is so important for the Christian to evaluate his or her life from time to time. Are our motives pure? Are we doing what we are doing for God’s glory, or our own? James tells us here that we must ask with the right motives. Sometimes we can ask for the right things, but for the wrong motives. This could be the reason our prayers are not being answered.
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