HOW TO PRAY (Part 7)

Scripture: James 4: 3

 

Topic: One hundred Percent answered prayer (Part 7)

 

In this series of our Quiet Time, we study ways in which a believer can receive one hundred percent answers to their prayers. Prayer is not part of the ministry but Prayer IS the ministry. The “Lord of the harvest” is waiting to answer our prayers as concerns the harvest fields that are already white and ripe for harvest. 

 

6.     The sixth step to one hundred per cent answered prayer is: Do not pray a miss 

 

“ Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss….”. 

                                                                                                                                 James 4: 3

 

Unfortunately, many Christians ask God for things He cannot give them. God does not answer prayers that have gone amiss. Praying amiss means that you pray unacceptable, unsuitable, inappropriate, inadmissible, impermissible, unsatisfactory and impossible prayers. God will not do things which are against His principles.

 

Faith is very different from foolishness. There are many Christians who exhibit silliness when they pray. God is not a fool. Please do not try to make him one.

 

The fact that you are allowed to exercise faith does not mean that you should be irrational. When God takes no notice of foolish prayers, do not say that prayer does not work. It is your foolish prayers that are not working. 

 

If you ask God for somebody’s husband, you are praying a foolish prayer. Some young men , starting out life, ask the Lord for huge mansions and fantastically expensive cars. It is true that God wants to bless you, but do not expect God to promote you overnight. Look at your Bible carefully. All the people who were blessed experienced it over a period of several years. If you are a married person and you do not use contraceptives, please do not bind the babies in your babies in your wife’s womb. God does not respond to foolishness. 

 

If you have a job and do and you do not do it, do not pray that your boss will fall sick.

 

As you grow older do not bother to pray for your youth to return. It is gone forever. You cannot retrace your steps. There is a natural aging process that you cannot bind or revoke!

 

 

Why do you bother to ask God to give you an airplane when you don’t even own a bicycle? You might as well ask Him to make you the Queen of England.

 

If you are praying to God to help you divorce, you are praying amiss. God does not want you to divorce. How can He help you to divorce?

 

“What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder”.

 

Mark 10:9

 

God cannot answer when you pray amiss! You may divorce by your own choice, but do not pray amiss. God does not break up marriages, He brings people together.

 

You must realize that there are divine laws operating in the universe. There is no use praying about things which cannot be done scripturally. I am not talking about the laws of your country. I am talking about the laws of God.

 

There is no man on this earth who can escape the curse declared over Adam.

 

“IN THE SWEAT OF THY FACE SHALT THOU EAT BREAD till thou return unto the ground; for out of it was thou taken: for dust thou art, and UNTO DUST SHALL THOU RETURN”.

 

Genesis 3:19

 

All men are experiencing the sweat of this life. All men are returning to dust. All men will go to the grave it is just a matter of time.

 

No matter who they are, all men have to sweat to prosper. No matter how rich they are they will return to the ground. There is no use praying against it. You cannot pray that you will prosper without working hard. You cannot pray that you will not die. That is illegal! Until Jesus returns you and I have to go the way of all man. Great men like David knew that there was no escape from death.

 

“Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son saying, IGO THE WAY OF ALL THE EARTH”.

 

1 Kings 2: 1, 2

 

What is the way of all the earth? It is the inescapable experience of death that all human beings must go through. There is no use in binding or cancelling it !

 

You will keep getting disappointed in God. Do not pray that you will not have to work hard. Working hard and sweating your way to prosperity is the legal way for us all to prosper. What you must rather do is pray for the wisdom that alleviate the effects of these curses.

 

It is the wisdom of medical science that alleviates the trauma of childbirth. Through the wisdom of medical science, many women have experienced little pain in childbirth. Many women have had less sorrow in childbirth through the use of wisdom.

 

It is wisdom that comes through education that lightens the load on the sons of Adam. All the sons of Adam. All the sons of Adam will labour, but some labour is easier than others. I would prefer to be a doctor than a cleaner. In both cases, I would go through the sweating process to eat bread. But I assure you that the labour of a doctor is different from that of a cleaner.

 

 

Credits: Excerpts from

How to pray

Bishop Dag Heward- Millls

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