HOW TO PRAY A USELESS PRAYER

LUKE 16:19, 22-31

Pastor Rick Jackson

 

I. PRAY IT AT THE WRONG TIME [v. 22-24, Is. 59:2]

v. 25 “thy lifetime” –But your iniquities between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that He will not hear.

 

II. PRAY IT TO THE WRONG PERSON [v. 24, 27, 1 Tm. 2:5]

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. [not Abraham, Mary, saints, angels, Buddha, et cetera]

 

III. PRAY AGAINST GOD’S WORD [v. 24-26, Heb. 9:27]

It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.

 

IV. PRAY FOR THE WRONG MEANS [v. 27-29, Isa. 8:19-20]

-And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? For the living to the dead? To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. (Religious experience over Revelation)

 

V. PRAY FROM THE WRONG MINDSET [v. 30-31, Ps. 66:18, Rm. 3:4]

The mindset of I know better than God, I’m right

-If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me.

-Let God be true, but every man a liar.