'Obedience to God counts tremendously in the realm of prayer. This fact cannot be emphasized too much or too often. To plead for a religious faith which tolerates sinning, is to cut the ground from under the feet of effectual praying. To excuse sinning by the plea that obedience to God is not possible to unregenerate men, is to discount the character of the new birth, and to place men where effective praying is not possible. At one time Jesus broke out with a very pertinent and personal question, striking right to the core of disobedience, when He said: "Why call ye Me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things I say?" Luke 6:46
He who would pray, must obey. He who would get anything out of his prayers, must be in perfect harmony with God. Prayer puts into those who sincerely pray a spirit of obedience, for the spirit of disobedience is not of God and belongs not to God's praying hosts.'
Quoted from- 'THE NECESSITY OF PRAYER By E.M. BOUNDS' (Excerpt 54)
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Luk 6:47 Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:
Luk 6:48 He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.
Luk 6:49 But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.
Jesus ASKS us WHY we are calling Him Lord, Lord when we are NOT doing the things He says!
Then Jesus goes on to say those who hear what He says and then do what He says that, that person is protected against the storms because they are founded upon HIM- the Rock.
Jesus doesn't stop there, He goes on to say that those who do not do what He says are not protected against storms.
So why, I have to ask something I've asked a lot of times, why do we imagine that we do NOT have to do what Jesus says? WHY?!
Truly, as E.M. Bounds wrote-
'To plead for a religious faith which tolerates sinning, is to cut the ground from under the feet of effectual praying'
-we CANNOT tolerate sinning! We cannot excuse our sinning! We cannot ACCEPT our sinning! We cannot be among those who say we cannot obey! To do that is to say we do not want to be among God's saints.
Read this--
Rev_14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
HERE are those KEEPING the COMMANDMENTS of GOD and the FAITH of JESUS!
They are obeying! Here are those who are obeying!
Why would we be told such a thing if such a thing were impossible? We wouldn't be! God would never tell us that there will be saints who keep His commandments if there can't be saints who keep the commandments. The sooner we BELIEVE it is possible through CHRIST to keep the commandments, the better. The sooner we can truly be obedient to OUR God, our Savior!
By God's grace may we be HIS, may we OBEY as He would have us OBEY, may we hear and do what He says so that we may truly be HIS as this life of a storm beats as us daily.
All in HIS GRACE! All in HIS LOVE!
He who would pray, must obey. He who would get anything out of his prayers, must be in perfect harmony with God. Prayer puts into those who sincerely pray a spirit of obedience, for the spirit of disobedience is not of God and belongs not to God's praying hosts.'
Quoted from- 'THE NECESSITY OF PRAYER By E.M. BOUNDS' (Excerpt 54)
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Luk 6:47 Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:
Luk 6:48 He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.
Luk 6:49 But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.
Jesus ASKS us WHY we are calling Him Lord, Lord when we are NOT doing the things He says!
Then Jesus goes on to say those who hear what He says and then do what He says that, that person is protected against the storms because they are founded upon HIM- the Rock.
Jesus doesn't stop there, He goes on to say that those who do not do what He says are not protected against storms.
So why, I have to ask something I've asked a lot of times, why do we imagine that we do NOT have to do what Jesus says? WHY?!
Truly, as E.M. Bounds wrote-
'To plead for a religious faith which tolerates sinning, is to cut the ground from under the feet of effectual praying'
-we CANNOT tolerate sinning! We cannot excuse our sinning! We cannot ACCEPT our sinning! We cannot be among those who say we cannot obey! To do that is to say we do not want to be among God's saints.
Read this--
Rev_14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
HERE are those KEEPING the COMMANDMENTS of GOD and the FAITH of JESUS!
They are obeying! Here are those who are obeying!
Why would we be told such a thing if such a thing were impossible? We wouldn't be! God would never tell us that there will be saints who keep His commandments if there can't be saints who keep the commandments. The sooner we BELIEVE it is possible through CHRIST to keep the commandments, the better. The sooner we can truly be obedient to OUR God, our Savior!
By God's grace may we be HIS, may we OBEY as He would have us OBEY, may we hear and do what He says so that we may truly be HIS as this life of a storm beats as us daily.
All in HIS GRACE! All in HIS LOVE!
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