| Bible Study: Prayer and Sins |
By: Evangelist W.C. “Dub” Dellinger
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Did you ever think how lonely it would be trying to serve a True and Living God without the privilege of Prayer? Not being able to say thank you to the Saviour for saving you from a devil’s hell. To live in a world like that would be most disheartening, not even the privilege of saying thank you for a meal. Now that we do have the privilege of Prayer I believe some over do it. Let me explain: God likes to be thanked for small favors he sends down our way, when it comes straight from the heart. But when we write out a big long prayer to make an impression on someone or on a TV or Radio broadcast for a show, God may turn that prayer in to sin against the person doing the praying. That’s his privilege. Especially if you thank God for some misfortune that you caused to happen and loss of lives was the end result, along with great loss of property. Then your prayer becomes sin against you. God looks at you as a wicked person headed for hell and this person or persons needs to wise up and find out if they were ever right in their way with God. You can not get God to change his Right Judgement to suit your wants. We live in never, never land to that. God can only make right judgements. He is both Judge and Jury when it comes to making a decision. I can assure you on his word, that he has patience, and when the right time comes, he puts things into motion. Just look at the patience he had with the Israelites, some serving wood gods, some rock gods. Lying, putting down the poor, making slaves out of some to be servants to them. At one time they had no King and every one was free to do what was right in his own eyes. Judges 21:25 says: “In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes”. They were trying God’s patience and it finally came to an end. I think that our end of period will creep up on us the same way, when he will split the Eastern sky and then it will be too late to start all over again. Just think how it was when the flood came and destroyed all except eight people and some beast and fowl. Think of Sodom and Gomorrah. We can already see things creeping up on us now like it was with them. God will have the last say. Abraham said: shall not the Judge of all the earth do right.
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