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October 23
THAT YOUR PRAYERS BE NOT HINDERED – PART 2

Scripture: James 4:3 “Ye ask and receive not because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.”

    Torrey says:  “A selfish purpose in prayer robs prayer of power.” The Bible tells us here in James that we may hinder our prayers by
being selfish in our motives when we make our petitions.  We need not to expect an answer when we pray like this.
    Dr. DeHaan comments on this saying:  “Our object and purpose in prayer should always be The Glory of God, and we should always pray in the will of God.  Too many times we want our way and not His way.  We make our plans and then ask God to endorse them, instead of fitting ourselves into His plans.”
    “Mary, in great unselfishness, poured the precious ointment on Jesus’ feet and wiped them with her luxuriant hair.  Surely, Mary had power in prayer.  The widow who cast her two mites, all she had, into the treasury, certainly, when she called unto God, God answered.  The widow who shared her cruse of oil and measure of meal with God’s prophet did not walk the prayer path as a weakling.  Surely Mary, Martha, and Lazarus, who shared their home in loving hospitality with the Master, had their prayers answered.  But a selfish person can never expect to have power in prevailing prayer with God who has power to give abundantly to all.
    …Jonathan Edwards said:  ‘If you seek in the spirit of selfishness, to grasp all as your own, you shall lose all…’  How sad that the children of God go lacking simply because of a wrong motive in prayer.  Praying that will help us and not bring glory to God is wrong. The Bible teaches us therefore that selfishness will hinder your prayers.
    Pray with the right motive and you will see much accomplished for the glory of God!  Don’t allow yourself and your desires to get in the way of you getting a prayer through to the Lord.  Prayer must be made with the desire to bring glory to God.  Are you praying that way today?