ESOCS Devotional 19 March 2021
TEXT: JEREMIAH 5:20-31
MEMORY VERSE: “Your iniquities have turned these things away and your sins have withheld good from you” Jeremiah 5:25 NKJV
“Prayer is worship addressed to the Father, in the name of Christ, and the power of the Holy Spirit” (Dr. H. W. First). “Prayer is an offering up our desires to God for all things lawful and needful, with humble confidence that we shall obtain them through the mediation of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.”
The Bible says, “Ask and it shall be given unto you; seek and you shall find; knock and the door will be opened unto you” (Mathew 7:7 NIV). Have you taken the thought of why your prayers are not answered despite your persistent prayers? The memory verse has given one of the answers to the reasons for prayers not answered – sin.
Other reasons for prayers not answered are below:
We must forgive others for God to answer our prayers – Matt. 6:14-15; Mark 11:25.
We must pray in faith, believing that God is able to do all things – Mark 11:24.
When it is not yet the time for God to answer the prayer – Habakkuk 2:3
When we ask amiss i.e., with the wrong motive or out of the will of God. James 4:3
Read yesterday’s ESOCS Devotional here
CHALLENGES
Check why your prayers are yet to be answered and make amends.
PRAYER POINT
Ask God to give you the grace to wait for the appropriate time for your prayers to be answered.
FURTHER READING: 1 Samuel 9:15-27; Luke 15:11-32; 2 Corinthians 6:12-18
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ESOCS Devotional 19 March 2021
