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UNLAWFUL PRAYERS
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. Philippians 4:6
Prayer is not a hard requirement – it is the natural duty of a creature to its creator, the simplest homage that human need can pay to divine liberality. Charles Spurgeon
“The more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You'll feel more patient and less pressured.” Rick Warren.
If the heart and prayers of religious people were x-rayed, we should be very surprised. If answers were granted to many prayers, many breeds of devil will be here with us. There will be series of hell’s experiences on this planet. Many prayers are sponsors by envy, hatred, greed, suspicion and superstition. They are speedily posted to heaven from our self-centred heart and eagerly and quickly expect answers. Many of these prayers are sponsored by ignorance. They completely lack wisdom and are rebellious to God’s words. These prayers from the depth of bitterness, malice and hatred, dangerously flashing their lights to heavens seeking for approval and answers from God. Answer to such prayers would make our world pathetic!
If there are answers to selfish, covetous and envious prayers, confusion and pandemonium would have engulfed the whole world. Arrogance and boasting displayed in the place of prayers in the name of ignorant faith will surprise you. People with this attitude often seek for power and dominance over others. If these people lay hand on heaven’s treasury, I am afraid. In such arrogant and ignorant prayers, they dare launch and forcefully want to open the treasure of heaven and create another kingdom of theirs on earth. Answers to such prayers will increase the tally of rebels on earth. Such request cannot threaten Him. There are standards for all prayers. He will subject them to test, and try the sincerity of needs and timing, the degree of needs. How intelligent, wise and gracious is God?God will not drop acts of wisdom and love for an emotional response. Mercy and love makes the wisdom of God high a standard any knowledgeable person can get on earth.
God regulates everything. He does subject the prayers to the matter of necessity and needs. He reads them, discovers the states of our minds and subjects them to the motive; felt and unfelt needs. Also, he considers the timing alongside. If God will not have standards for answering prayer, why would some prayers be answered, some pending while some discarded?
“From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.” (James 4:1-3).
Many people have accused God of playing deaf and dumb to their prayers. Unfortunately, many of these prayers are unlawful. The request from the very deep mine of envy, – violent desire. Requests based on competition, in either spiritual achievement, career and property are lustful prayers. Every prayer that comes out of lust are unlawful, that is asking amiss. God will not answer until it matches with His will, necessity and timing. There are many things we ask that we are not mature enough to handle or we do not need.
I attended a programme and I saw the desire for power and anointing. Contrary was my observation, considering the frequency of this programme. While I ponder on this, the Holy spirit said, many believers cannot carry the great power for revival, despite their prayers for it. This is because we lack the love of Christ, in the measure of which He had when on earth. Until our love is beyond ordinary compassion, His great power cannot be experienced. Else, will be misused. God is love, and Christ is in His full measure of his full image, then His wisdom He cannot deny. If God should give the power of Christ in the full measure to some, such person may try to sink the whole world one day, like John and James. But He came not to destroy; that’s Christ full measure of love.
The lustful prayers have the following characteristics which are always against God’s will and purpose:
- They always emerge from sense of competition
- They have root in self, gain, fame, praises or pride
- They accommodate and fired by ignorance
- They are impatiently tabled request
- They are mostly a request from provocation of anger, envy, fear and insecurities.
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