October 23, 2018 WWJWMTD by Steve the son of John

God, Are You Listening?

A prayer of David

All of us have said this statement to God, “God are you listening to me?” There are times when I pray a short phrase and I have my request immediately and other times I feel like I am pounding on the doors of heaven and God just is not opening His doors to me. Here are some suggestions to receive what you are asking God for.

When my prayer life is running into problems I turn to the Bible—I often pray prayers that King David wrote about in Psalms. One of my favorites is Psalms 69 verse 13. “But as for me, my prayer is to you, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of your mercy hear me, in the truth of your salvation.”

I realize that Satan is hindering my prayers for God’s will to be done. So I remind God of His promises and my position in Christ. I come to God not in confidence alone but in my dependence on His mercy and the truth of His salvation for me. It is always acceptable to approach God through the redemption of Jesus Christ—Christ is the door to God who is in heaven.

We must realize and affirm that prayer is a battle for God’s will to be done and God’s judgment must accompany our requests and supplications for God to act in history. That is why David continued in verses 14 through 36. These verses are the details of the prayer mentioned in verse 13. It is time to pray the prayers of victory and God’s love for His people. “Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. 15 Let not the flood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth on me. 16 Hear me, O LORD; for your loving kindness is good: turn to me according to the multitude of your tender mercies. 17 And hide not your face from your servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily. 18 Draw near to my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of my enemies. 19 You have known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: my adversaries are all before you. 20 Reproach has broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none. 21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. 22 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. 23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake. 24 Pour out your indignation on them, and let your wrathful anger take hold of them. 25 Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents. 26 For they persecute him whom you have smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom you have wounded. 27Add iniquity to their iniquity: and let them not come into your righteousness. 28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous. 29But I am poor and sorrowful: let your salvation, O God, set me up on high. 30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. 31 This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that has horns and hoofs. 32 The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God. 33 For the LORD hears the poor, and despises not his prisoners. 34 Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moves therein. 35 For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession. 36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.”

There are just 14 days of prayer left to complete the 50 Days of Prayer Challenge.

1. We must pray for the Presidency of the United States and ask God to give Mr. Trump the 3rd Chapter of Psalms. We must be asking for our President’s protection and God’s righteous judgment upon his enemies.

2. Twenty days left of the challenge of 50 days of prayer for 51 Capitals. We must be asking God to send the Holy Spirit to move over and in our State and National Capitals. If we would pray God would begin to heal our land.

3. Lastly, let’s pray that all those who have the calling and spirit of the ministry of Elijah and Elisha to pray for God to move over our nation. It is time for God’s Spirit to be poured out like heavy rain and the flooding of God’s Spirit upon America through repentance, righteous, and great judgment.

Just 14 days to complete the challenge; pray Psalms 69:13-36.

WWJWMTD

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Dr. Steven J. Wentland www.wwjwmtd.com

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