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This is the audio from the sermon preached at Faith Outreach Center on Sunday, October 3, 2010. Pastor Steve Hohm preached a message entitled: Obedience in Prayer. This is part of the sermon series with a special emphasis on prayer entitled “Transformed: When God’s People Pray.”
Scriptures included in this sermon were:
Psalm 66:18-19
“If I had cherished sin in my heart,
the Lord would not have listened;
but God has surely listened
and heard my voice in prayer.”
16 He then brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord, and there at the entrance to the temple, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five men. With their backs toward the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east, they were bowing down to the sun in the east. 17 He said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a trivial matter for the house of Judah to do the detestable things they are doing here? Must they also fill the land with violence and continually provoke me to anger? Look at them putting the branch to their nose! 18 Therefore I will deal with them in anger; I will not look on them with pity or spare them. Although they shout in my ears, I will not listen to them.”
Behold, the Lord’s hand is not so short
that it cannot save;
Nor is His ear so dull that it cannot hear.
But your iniquities have made a separation
between you and your God,
And your sins have hidden His face from you
so that He does not hear.
If we confess our sins,
He is faithful and righteous
to forgive us our sins
and to cleanse us
from all unrighteousness.
Some of the difficult issues that we face as believers have to do with our own personal walk and life. If we want to be blessed by God, it is important to live before Him in obedience to His will and His word. Trying to get God to bless us, when we are living directly opposite to the way He has told us to live, creates a dilemma for us. We must repent and turn from sin, and live in obedience in order for God to bless us.
