IS GOD PLEASED WITH OUR PRAYER LIFE?

BARBARA E. PERKINS

IS GOD PLEASED WITH OUR PRAYER LIFE?

Are we really concerned for the well-being of others? In 2 Chronicles 7:13-14 (NKJV) the word of God says emphatically, 13 “When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people, 14 if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” We are experiencing calamities every other week, if not every week in our various nations and especially in 2017. Something is wrong and it is not Almighty God. We can’t blame God and we cannot get angry with Him. If we turn our backs on God where is our help going to come from? There is so much to pray about all the time and we must not grow weary in our prayer life. We must we vigilant and we must pray without ceasing as the word of God tells us (1 Thessalonians 5:17). God told us what He would do if we (His people) would humble ourselves and pray. God also, told us what He would do if we would seek His face (His way of doing right) and turn from our wicked ways. In Numbers 23:19, God’s word says, “God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?” God does not lie and He wants to heal our land. Is He waiting on us to do our part? So, when disasters happen in our world and our personal lives, what are we going to do? Are we going to do God’s word or something else? LORD have mercy on us, Your people, for the times when we didn’t do what You told us to do. Oh, how we need You, LORD! Help us to have genuine concern for one another and pray. LORD, forgive us when we have pity parties and we should be praying. Thank You for Your overwhelming love and compassion for us, Your people. Also, LORD, stir us up to be doers of your word and not hears only, deceiving ourselves (James 1:22). LORD GOD have Your way and turn us into the prayer warriors You desire us to be, so that You will heal our land. Thank You, LORD, for being our GOD that hears and answers our prayers.