When God Hears Our Cry Series

So it’s up to us to get right with God and to turn our lives around. And once we’ve done all that God requires of us, the Bible says that then He will hear from heaven.

When we pray, our prayers are sent up to heaven. We should want for our prayers to be listened to and answered by God. But our prayers are not sent directly to God. They don’t leave our mouth and go directly to his ear. If they did that, then there would be no need for a mediator between God and us. There would have been no need for Jesus to come down here and hang on the cross for your sins and mine.

Jesus said in the 14th chapter of John that I am the way the truth and the light. No man cometh unto the Father but by me? He let us know that He is the key that we must use to get our prayers heard by God. That’s why we end our prayers in Jesus name. Because we want there to be something attached to our prayer that gets them noticed in heaven.

Jesus said that whatever you ask the Father in my name, He will give it to you. So Jesus is the key.

That’s why there was over four hundred years of silence from God between the Book of Malachi and the arrival of the voice of one crying out in the wilderness. There was no key. God had stopped listening to man because Man had stopped living right. Man had stopped talking and communicating with God. Man, even the children of God, had shut off the prayer line and taken up the ways of the wicked.

But I thank God for Jesus Christ, for he came down through 42 generations to serve as the key. Isaiah prophesied in the 22nd Chapter, that the key of the house of David would fall upon the shoulders of the Lord. And if he should open the door, no man would be able to make the door shut. Likewise, if he should find it necessary to shut the door, no man would be able to open it back up. Have I got a witness?

I don’t know about you tonight, but I want the right to use that heavenly key. Because if you have the right to use that key, you can open up the windows and door in the kingdom of heaven. Ain’t God alright?

For I can hear God telling Malachi, that I will open up the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing that you will not have room to receive. And even though, he was talking about paying your tithes and offering, you ought to know that if you grab a hold of a key named Jesus, your blessing is always going to come on through. Can I get a witness?

For I heard one gospel writer tell the story about a woman who had an issue of blood. And she had gone from doctor to doctor looking for the key that would get her healed of her affliction. Am I right about it?

But all of a sudden after 12 long years that she had been looking for the key, she heard about a key called Jesus that was nearby teaching the word of God. And how many of you know tonight that sometimes the key will show up when you least expect him to show up.

For the bible tells me that this woman left her home looking for the key. And I must stop and tell you children, that this woman must have had great faith in the Lord. For when she got there to where the key was, there was a whole multitude of folk. And there was not a way for her to get through the crowd.