PRAYER and SALVATION
Almost every day I hear some news broadcaster on TV telling us to pray, or assuring us that he or she prays about some situation. Many posts on X come from pew-warmers & preachers, some of whom claim to be pastors to pastors or prophetic teachers etc, but they all yap an awful lot about prayer. The more I reply to their posts with God’s truth, the more they retaliate with another post, often posting some verse from a New Testament letter where Paul encourages the godly saints who live in Christ to pray more. Here is the truth about those who live in Christ…
Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.
But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin.
No one who lives in him sins. No one who sins has either seen him or known him.
Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.
The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work.
No one who is born of God will sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot sin because they have been born of God.
This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister. 1 Jn. 3:4-10
Don’t try to ‘prove me wrong’ by quoting that scripture from a modern version. When men compiled them, they added words that were never there in the original Greek. Words that allowed them to change the literal meaning of this passage’s truth. Clearly, they were all sinners, and didn’t want this truth in their ‘modern bibles.’ The KJV still has it correct.
These folks on X, simply have chosen NOT to believe that God NEVER hears prayers from sinners. They all unashamedly admit to being sinners, but refuse to believe that God NEVER hears their prayers! How can this be?
if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chron. 7:14
If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened; Ps. 66:18
If anyone turns a deaf ear to my instruction, even their prayers are detestable. Prov. 28:9
We know that God does not listen to sinners. He listens to the godly person who does his will. Jn. 9:31
When you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you; even when you offer many prayers, I am not listening. Your hands are full of blood!
Wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out of my sight; stop doing wrong. Is. 1:15-16
He said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a trivial matter for the people of Judah to do the detestable things they are doing here? Must they also fill the land with violence and continually arouse my anger? Look at them putting the branch to their nose!
Therefore, I will deal with them in anger; I will not look on them with pity or spare them. Although they shout in my ears, I will not listen to them.” Ezek. 8:17-18
I cannot believe that anyone reading those scriptures can expect God to hear their prayers if they sin. Can you? But the position this puts today’s ‘Christians’ in is between a rock and a hard place. The very fact that God/Jesus NEVER hears prayers from sinners means that these people are NOT Christians. Whatever they did to ‘become Christians’ included words spoken audibly, or in their mind, to God or Jesus. Then ever since then, they have asked God/Jesus to forgive them for their sins they committed. So for them to believe God’s word on prayer, they actually admit they are NOT Christians. Their huge problem is that they have NEVER been informed of God’s means of salvation, which does NOT include prayers at all.
How to work out one’s salvation with fear & trembling:
Know God, Jer. 29:11-14, Jn. 17:3, 2 Thes. 1:8-9 Does not require prayers, but countless hours of studying God’s autobiography [bible] with a passionate desire to know Him, and His truth. See KNOWING SOMEONE on Substack
Fear God. Acts 10:34-35, Prov, 28:14, Matt. 10:28 Does not require prayers. See SCARED OF GOD? on Substack
Repent. Ex. 20:20, Ezek. 33:11-20 Does not require prayers. See REPENTANCE on Substack
Receive the Holy Spirit for forgiveness of sins. Acts 2:38 Does not require prayers. God does this when you repent.
Live in Christ where there’s NO SIN. 1 Jn. 3:4-10 Does not require prayers.
The Holy Spirit will control every aspect of your life, Ezek. 36:26-27 Does not require prayers.
They all believe in a ‘gospel’ that is totally contrary to what God proclaims through His life instruction manual. The main focus of their ‘gospel’ is to fawn all over Jesus by calling Him Lord, etc. Jesus told them NOT to do that, but to do God’s will if they wanted to be saved……from hell.
Not everyone who says to Me Lord, Lord will ever enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of My Father who is in heaven. Matt. 7:21
Do they believe that it’s God will for them to sin? They will also tell you to trust Jesus, but what sane person would ever trust someone they did not know really well? The same goes for ‘putting one’s faith in’ Jesus. They also tell you to ‘come to Jesus’ or that you must say of think these words: “I accept Jesus as my Lord & Savior.” All of this is a very great example of pure semantics. But then one has to go through life believing that something happened to you when you said or thought those words. Not surprisingly, 86M of them, as well as myself, gave up that fantasy during the past two decades according to the census data, and keep doing so today in droves, according to the church leaders themselves.
I have been called by God to speak out against sin.
Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will take a stand for me against evildoers? Ps. 94:16
I heard that call when I was still a sinner, and it literally brought tears to my eyes because I had to tell God that I couldn’t do that, because I was a sinner myself. That was back in those days when I believed today’s ‘gospel’ and thought I was a Christian. But when I got to know God, and learned to fear Him, as all who truly know Him will do, I repented, and have not sinned since. I was then able to tell Him, and know that He heard me, that I was now able to meet that call. The obvious question is, why would God call someone to make a stand against sin, if it was impossible for human beings to live free from sin? Go figure!!
The radiant bride, without stain, wrinkle, or any other blemish, holy and blameless, [Eph. 5:27] does NOT exist today…obviously. But that is who Jesus is coming to take to the Marriage Feast of the Lamb. There is an urgent need of a massive spiritual awakening, so that the ‘resurrected Body of Christ’ will be seen on this earth. It is as clear as crystal that Satan has taken control of America, and much of the Western World, precisely because there is no fear of God in those communities.
An oracle is within my heart concerning the sinfulness of the wicked. There is no fear of God before their eyes. For in his eyes, he flatters himself too much to detect or hate his sin. Ps. 36:1-2 NIV
That is exactly what David said of his fellow countrymen, and it is exactly what I am proclaiming to the people of America, this day.
I spent from 1992 to 2011 researching ‘American Christianity’ across the USA, and it was an incredibly painful experience, spiritually, for me. I wrote a book soon after, with God’s word on this matter, including His plan to bring total healing to the nation, so she is a shining city on a hill again. I truly believe she was, when the Holiness Movement was active across the country. She was the envy of the rest of the world, until the civil war broke out. Please get a copy of ‘A Nation Broken’ from Amazon or B & N today and become a part of God’s plan to rescue America from Satan’s claws.