When you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you; Even though you make many
prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood. (NKJV isaiah 1:15)
NOT all prayers move the heart of God!prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood. (NKJV isaiah 1:15)
You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures. (NKJV james 4:3)
3ways in which God hears your prayers!
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart— These, O God, You will not despise. (NKJV palsm 51:17)
1. a heart of faith;
2. a heart of obedience;
3. a heart of brokenness;
brokenness not equals to broken heart;
brokenness equals to a heart of brokenness equals to a humble heart;
whenever you pray, ask god in exchange for his humble heart;
& he will exchange his humble heart in return of your heart full of sins;
NKJV john 12:1-8
3benefits of brokenness!
Now it happened on a certain day, as He was teaching, that there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every town of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was present to heal them. (NKJV luke 5:17)
1. spiritual sensitivity (NKJV luke 5:21)
2. spiritual effectiveness (NKJV jonah 1:17)
3. spiritual hunger (NKJV matthew 5:6)
Now all the people witnessed the thunderings, the lightning flashes, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood afar off. (NKJV ex 20:18)
pray & seek God;