"....Pray for us to the LORD your God..., that the LORD your God may show us the way in which we should walk and the thing we should do....Whether it is pleasing or displeasing, we will obey the voice of the LORD our God to whom we send you, that it may be well with us when we obey the voice of the LORD our God." (From Jeremiah 42:2-6)
Sound like any prayer requests you've heard lately? Jeremiah 42 reveals a people who were as all of us today. They wanted life to "be well with us." Who doesn't? They, as so many today, were in desperate straits and needed a word from "the LORD our God...." Yet they already had a "word." It was their word. They asked the prophet to pray for the "word of the Lord," but all they really wanted was a word which agreed with theirs.
I have a cure. Commit to choose the Word of God, Jesus Christ, Who is revealed in the Words of God, the Bible------------ "whether it is pleasing or displeasing." This is the defining mark of Biblical prophets and the Covenant people. After all, His Word is His Will, and praying His Will brings His Will. I often receive prayer requests which tell me what to pray. I do. Then I submit those requests and my prayer to the prayers of His Word. This is, "Thy Kingdom come. Thy Will be done," praying.
Father, in Jesus' Name, help me to be a "whether it be pleasing or displeasing" disciple. Amen.
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"Looking Unto Jesus"
Hebrews 12:2
Hebrews 12:2
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