Prayer is a very powerful tool in the hands
of a Believer. It effectively brings the Omnipotence of Heaven to the realities
of Earth. Our Lord describes the limitlessness of the scope of prayer when He
declared, “ALL things, WHATSOEVER you shall ask in prayer, believing, you
shall receive.” and earlier He said, “Everyone that asks receives”;
(Mt 21:22; 7:8).
Unfortunately, we can’t really boast that
that has always been our experience in prayer. While there are several reasons
why prayers are unanswered or delayed one that bears note is the issue of
forgiveness – the absence of it, that is.
In Mk 11:24 when our Lord said, “Whatever
things you desire, when you pray, believe that you will receive them, and you
shall have them,” He added a caveat:
And when you stand praying, forgive, if
you have anything against any.
Prayer is like a pipe that channels the
power of Heaven down to us and supplies us with all that we desire in our
lives. But when we hold grudges and withhold forgiveness to others while still
praying, that pipe gets dirty and clogged up.
We see a similar situation in 1Peter 3:7
where the Apostle enjoins husbands to be respectful and understanding of their
wives, “that your prayers be not hindered.”
Faith “works by love” (Gal 5:6), if we want
to wield faith enough to move mountains, we must flush the pipes of all the
impurities.
Apostle Paul’s charge to the Ephesian
Brethren is just as valid to us today:
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and
anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
And be you kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as
God for Christ's sake has forgiven you. (Eph 4:31-32)
AMEN.
More Blessings await you today; you’ll not
miss them in Jesus’ Name.
GREG ELKAN
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