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'Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.' Jeremiah 33:3 NKJV
God has ordained prayers as our means of communicating to Him, for His ears are open to their cry. (Psalm 34:15) We are to call on Him and ask of Him that He may answer. David is confident that God hears, for he says, “The LORD will hear when I call to Him.” (Psalm. 4:3).
The Bible has many promises that the Lord will hear our prayers and answer them. Indeed the Lord promises, “It shall come to pass That before they call, I will answer;And while they are still speaking, I will hear.” (Isaiah 65:24). The Lord has promised to not only hears our prayers, but that he will graciously and lovingly answer them for our good (Romans 8:28).
“Now we know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does His will, He hears him.” (John 9:31)
In prayer we must not look to the merit of man, but to the grace of God. Only in this we should copy after Elijah, that he prayed earnestly, or, as it is in the original, in prayer he prayed. M Henry
Almighty God listens to our prayers because He has promised to.
Elijah is one of our Bible heroes: He called down fire from heaven, and challenged the priests of Baal. By prayer he stopped rain for 3-1/2 years, then also by prayer started it again. And with prayer he revived a widows son who had died. You can read more about Elijah in 1 Kings 17-18.
But, says James, “Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly…” James 5:17
This man of God was much like us. In other translations of this verse, he was: subject to like passions as we are, as human as we are, a human being, even as we are, a man of like nature with ourselves. He got discouraged, hungry, tired, upset, scared.
In other words, the great prophet was merely human, and could be frail, fragile, and fail — yet he was also a righteous man whose fervent prayer was answered by the Lord. Elijah’s heart was in tune with God’s, and he was much used of the Lord.
We learn through James that the Lord will use ordinary people to do (or pray) extraordinary things. He used Moses, who said he was not eloquent, and Jeremiah who said he was too young. His anointed king was just a shepherd boy. Likewise he chose hot-tempered Peter, and willful Saul. God indeed uses the foolish things of the world to shame the wise.
So then let us not be discouraged that we don’t have a big name or following, or that we are not some super-spiritual giant. Nor doubt our simple, persistent, feeble praying has not been heard. Instead may we be encouraged that we have a nature like Elijah’s, because we too can pray effectual fervent prayers that avail much!
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By Voice of Epaphras'Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.' Jeremiah 33:3 NKJV
God has ordained prayers as our means of communicating to Him, for His ears are open to their cry. (Psalm 34:15) We are to call on Him and ask of Him that He may answer. David is confident that God hears, for he says, “The LORD will hear when I call to Him.” (Psalm. 4:3).
The Bible has many promises that the Lord will hear our prayers and answer them. Indeed the Lord promises, “It shall come to pass That before they call, I will answer;And while they are still speaking, I will hear.” (Isaiah 65:24). The Lord has promised to not only hears our prayers, but that he will graciously and lovingly answer them for our good (Romans 8:28).
“Now we know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does His will, He hears him.” (John 9:31)
In prayer we must not look to the merit of man, but to the grace of God. Only in this we should copy after Elijah, that he prayed earnestly, or, as it is in the original, in prayer he prayed. M Henry
Almighty God listens to our prayers because He has promised to.
Elijah is one of our Bible heroes: He called down fire from heaven, and challenged the priests of Baal. By prayer he stopped rain for 3-1/2 years, then also by prayer started it again. And with prayer he revived a widows son who had died. You can read more about Elijah in 1 Kings 17-18.
But, says James, “Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly…” James 5:17
This man of God was much like us. In other translations of this verse, he was: subject to like passions as we are, as human as we are, a human being, even as we are, a man of like nature with ourselves. He got discouraged, hungry, tired, upset, scared.
In other words, the great prophet was merely human, and could be frail, fragile, and fail — yet he was also a righteous man whose fervent prayer was answered by the Lord. Elijah’s heart was in tune with God’s, and he was much used of the Lord.
We learn through James that the Lord will use ordinary people to do (or pray) extraordinary things. He used Moses, who said he was not eloquent, and Jeremiah who said he was too young. His anointed king was just a shepherd boy. Likewise he chose hot-tempered Peter, and willful Saul. God indeed uses the foolish things of the world to shame the wise.
So then let us not be discouraged that we don’t have a big name or following, or that we are not some super-spiritual giant. Nor doubt our simple, persistent, feeble praying has not been heard. Instead may we be encouraged that we have a nature like Elijah’s, because we too can pray effectual fervent prayers that avail much!
Get full access to Epaphras Prays at epaphrasprays.substack.com/subscribe