" Prayers GOD Will NOT Answer "

 

Proverbs 1:24-33  "Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out MY hand, and no man regarded; but ye have set at naught all MY counsel, and would none of MY reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes; when your fear comes as desolation, and your destruction comes as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish comes upon you.

Then shall they call upon ME, but I will not answer; they shall seek ME early, but they shall not find ME; for that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: they would none of MY counsel: they despised all MY reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. But whoso harkens unto ME shall dwell safely and shall be quiet from fear of evil."

     In today's text, GOD makes it clear that HE will not answer the prayers of those who reject HIS counsel and reproof (vv.25,28), nor will HE answer the prayers of those who hate HIS knowledge and refuse to fear HIM (v.29). Proverbs 28:9 above declares that the prayer of one who turns his ear away from GOD's WORD is actually an "abomination" to GOD. The LORD even instructed the Prophet Jeremiah not to pray for those who were trusting in the lying words of false prophets and who were polluting GOD's house (Jeremiah 7:8-16). In the New Testament, JESUS warned that neither the prayers of hypocrites would be heard nor the prayers of those who, like the heathen, used vain repetitions (Matthew 6:5-7). Many religious leaders today are praying prayers that GOD will not answer because they isolate and concentrate on certain Scriptures referring to prayer while failing to heed so many other portions of GOD's WORD. One will often hear these leaders quote Matthew 18:19: "If two of you shall agree on Earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done. . ."; yet they ignore the clear teaching of the Bible, which says, "And this is the confidence that we have in HIM, that, if we ask any thing according to HIS will (emphasis added), HE hears us: And if we know that HE hears us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of HIM (1st.John 5:14-15 below).

Answered prayer will always be in line with GOD's will, not according to what we might "agree on" or demand from GOD. Faithful believers will refuse to join in ecumenical or charismatic prayers in which the Bible is twisted, misapplied, or ignored; these are prayers that the LORD will not answer. MHR

Your servant in CHRIST,

Julie