Good Morning Friends,
“Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short
to save, nor his ear too dull to hear. But your iniquities have separated you
from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not
hear.” (Isaiah 59:1-2)
Do you ever wonder why your prayers seem to
go unheard? It is as though God is deaf. He either doesn’t hear or He just doesn’t
answer.
Sometimes when that happens, the problem is
not with God, it is with us. There’s something wrong with us or with our
prayers that keep God from answering. It’s not that He does not hear, He hears
every prayer. There is nothing wrong with His hearing, “His ear is not too dull
to hear.” There is nothing wrong with His ability to answer. It’s not that He
doesn’t have the power to respond to our prayers, “His arm is not too short.”
Isaiah says that one of the issues involved
in unanswered prayer is our own sin. Our sin causes God to turn a deaf ear to
us. Unacknowledged sin creates a barrier between us and God. It’s not that He doesn’t
love us anymore or that we are no longer saved, but there is something wrong in
our relationship.
Another of the issues involved in unanswered
prayer is that our requests are sometimes off base with His will. We ask
selfishly or do not understand the ramifications for the world, for others, or
for His purposes of what we have requested.
So, if our prayers seem to go unanswered, we
should look first into our own hearts.
His, by Grace,
Steve
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