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Reasons For Unanswered Prayer-2
Contributed by Jimmy Haile on Mar 17, 2013 (message contributor)
Summary: Our prayers can be about wrong motives
A team (Who has Christians on the team)is praying to win, the other team (Who has Christians on that team) is also praying to win.
A Christian Camp is praying they will have a dry week, next door a Christian farmer is praying for rain for his crops.
Someone is praying for a love one to be released from jail, while the family of the victim is praying that person won’t be released.
How would you like to be God?
James 4:3-You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures
Amiss-wrong: incorrect, inappropriate, or not as it should be.
There have been some request I have asked, that I had no business asking for!
We Can Pray With Wrong Motives-I can pray to get a better paying job, (Which is not a bad thing) but I am asking not because I need one but because I want to buy more stuff, then am I not asking with wrong motive?
I can pray for better health, (Which is not a bad thing) but if I am going to use this good health for only my pleasure, my desires, then am I not asking with the wrong motives?
I can ask God to grow this church,(Which is not a bad thing) but if my desire is just to promote myself, then am I not asking with wrong motives?
Wanting Our Prayers To Be Seen Or Heard By People.
The one we should be concerned with, that hears us, is God!!!