Have you ever prayed and prayed and thought that your prayer should be answered by now? Well, I have done that, but have you ever thought about how does my life affect my prayers? Here I am asking God for something and yet I am not living the way He calls me to live? He is our Father. If my child is being disrespectful to me and not listening or doing what I have told him to do, do I buy him the item he wants? No, that wouldn't be wise of me, because then he would continue to be that way towards me and he wouldn't listen to what I have to say, because it really doesn't matter. Do you think God is the same way?
In Proverbs 28:9 it says "If anyone turns a deaf ear to my instruction, even their prayers are detestable." So in other words, if I do not follow God's laws that He has established in the Bible, my prayer is detestable to Him. Wow, can it be anymore clear than that? The way we treat our relationship with God effects our prayer life. That isn't just in Proverbs, but also in 1 Peter 3:12 "For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, And His ears are open to their prayers; But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil." Or if you don't think 2 places is enough to express how important it is to follow what God is calling us to do? There are many more: Proverbs 15:29; Proverbs 15:8; Psalm 66:18.
Our call in our lives is to follow the instructions that He has written for us, but if we are not doing it in our lives, in our relationships, in our marriage, in our daily work and living, than we need to repent, we need to ask forgiveness for that, because it is sin. God is very clear about sin and if we do the opposite of what God says, we are walking with the words, we have turned our back on God. In James 4:17 "If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them." Can you imagine how God feels, here He has told us how to walk and how to be, but yet we do our own things, I believe He is very clear on it being sin.
We have written instructions how to live, how to be married, what roles we play and so on, but are we doing them or doing our own thing? God is clear on how it should be, what area's in your life are you not following what God calls us to? Isn't it time for a change? I don't want my prayers to be detestable to God, do you? I want to be heard, what about you?
