Broken Prayers

Broken Prayers.

Clearly from the majority of the following verses we have to admit the truth- that just because someone prays (asks God) it doesn't mean they will be heard by God, answered by God, their petitions will not be granted by God. With this in mind, we have to know that just because a person prays to God it doesn't mean they are of God.

We want to believe that God will hear every prayer and grant the requests made, the supplications entreated. The truth not only is- God doesn't always answer for His reasons beyond our comprehension, God doesn't always listen. Someone might tell you God ill always listen but that's not the truth found in His word.

Jas_4:3  Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

Jas_4:4 …know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

Jas 1:6  But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. 

Jas 1:7  For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. 

Job 27:8  For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul? 

Job 27:9  Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him? 

Job 27:10  Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God? 

Job 35:12  There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men. 

Job 35:13  Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it. 

Psa 18:41  They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not. 

Psa 66:18  If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me: 

Psa 66:19  But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer. 

Pro 1:28  Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: 

Pro 1:29  For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD

Pro 15:8  The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight. 

Pro 21:13  Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard. 

Isa 1:15  And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. 

Isa 1:16  Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil

Jer 11:14  Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble. 

Jer 14:12  When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence. 

Mic 3:4  Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.

Zec 7:13  Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD of hosts

Mat 20:22  But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able.

1Jn 3:22  And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight. 

1Jn 5:14  And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us

Jas 4:1  From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 

Whatever we ask-

We receive-

Because we keep his commandments.

Because we do those things that are pleasing in his sight.

God will not give to those who are not truly His and according to His word the majority of the world will not be His- not in truth.  They may fool themselves that they are His, but their delusions will be revealed in the last day. May God keep us from the evil of self-deceit. May we be HIS in all truth- nothing wavering!