Prayer 2021 - August 19 - What James Had to Say About Prayer pt 14

Scripture For Today:

Nehemiah 1:6

“…let your ear be attentive and your eyes open to hear the prayer your servant is praying before you day and night for your servants, the people of Israel. I confess the sins we Israelites, including myself and my father’s family, have committed against you.”

What James Had to Say About Prayer pt 14

We have been studying what the Apostle James had to say about prayer. We have been studying the verses from James 5:13-18:

“Is any among you afflicted? Let him pray. Is any Merry? Let him sing psalms. Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the Name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he has committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. 

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

 Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the earth by the space of three years and six months! And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain and the earth brought forth her fruit.”

Yesterday, I shared the reason I am able to receive prayers as answered is because I never give up on receiving my prayers as answered!  Glory to God!

Sometimes they are answered immediately and sometimes it may take a few day. In some instances, it may take years. But I never give up.

Let clarify that one minute… I never give up unless I’m moved by the Lord to “let it go.”  And usually, in those instances, it something that “I wanted to do” – but later found out, in the process of time, it would have turned out worse for me to have that prayer answered.

You may find out the same things. It could be a career change or someone you think could be your partner in life – only to find out later it would have been disastrous. Amen!

One example I can use, for me personally, was a career choice I had made. I was working and was doing really, really good. I’m talking one of the top rated agents in our company on a nationwide basis good. Amen!

But then, it started shifting. Things were not working like they were supposed to and soon, I felt it was better to move on. But I kept praying it would turn around… 

But those prayers were not being answered.

Then, one day, I sensed the Lord saying, “Let it go…”

Soon after, the entire organization I was a part of collapsed.

Things like that is what I’m talking about today. There will be times when your prayers are not being answered. There is always – ALWAYS – a reason.

It could be some sin in your life; some sin in the person you’re praying for, their life. Or it could just simply be it is NOT the Lord’s plan.  

You need to be spiritually sensitive to these things. Amen!

I want to pray for you now that you will begin to pray without ceasing, for yourself and others; that you will pray without saying anything similar to “Well, that didn’t work” and things like that. But that you will also seek the Lord’s Wisdom in matters where it seems your prayers are NOT being answered.

Amen!

Let’s Pray!

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