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Why pray ? ? ?



Philippians 4:6-7 (KJV):  “Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.  And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”

Never paid it much mind before but of late, have;  I don’t hear “thanks” being given with prayer or supplications; there is a difference.  The reason we are to be thankful in giving prayer and supplication is that we have faith that we are being heard and much more than that our prayer will be answered.  I think most petitioners lack faith in their prayers and are remiss in giving of thanks when ones prayers/supplications are made.  

Sidebar:  I have a lot of wants but no needs:  “But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Jesus Christ”  Philippians 4:19.  Believing that then; “If I don’t have it I don’t need it.”  

“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: 8 for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.”  Matthew 7:7-11 

“Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven”  Matthew 18:19

“And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.”  Matthew 21:22 

Does this happen when you pray?  Why not?  I believe one has failed to  “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”  2 Timothy 2:15.  Those passages in the synoptic gospels and John, also the first 7 chapters of Acts were all written to Israel, not to say we should reject certain scriptures but not all scriptures are written to us.  I have to rightly divide Times past, but now and ages to come.

To see and understand this then are these conflicting scriptures?

  “But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither    will your Father forgive your trespasses.”  Matthew 6:15 and “But if ye  
           do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your          
           trespasses.” Mark 11:26

as opposed to:
          
  “And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another,  
           even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.” Ephesians 4:32

Paul gives us an example of prayer asking for personal healing in 2 Corinthians 12:7-10, where asks God concerning his, Paul’s “throne in the flesh”.  There are  times in ones life where it appears where God hasn’t heard let alone answered.  We forget as being the body we are set apart from this world in that:  “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessing in heavenly places in Christ.”  Ephesians 1:3.  Is that true in your life or not?    

We as the church, the body of Christ need to learn where were at concerning scriptures written to or for us, we need to learn to rightly divide.

Salvation is simple: Admit one is a sinner, agreeing with God knowing that “ for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” Romans 3:23.  “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;  by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.  For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;  and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:” 1 Corinthians 15:1-4.


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