loolalooh
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I was listening to a sermon (from a series of sermons sent to me ... Thank you, you know who you are. ) when it was mentioned the pastor never prays for money. Why not? Because it is in God's promises that He will provide for those who seek His Kingdom first. Why pray, and even more so, worry about something that is already promised to us. The pastor referenced Matthew 6, which is actually one the promises I keep in my heart, especially in times of need:
MATTHEW 6:
I have numerous testimonies about how my back was against the wall financially, but the Lord somehow, someway always made a way WHENEVER I refused to worry. The most recent situation was me being down to just chump change in my banking account, maxed out on a couple of credit cards, and needing to somehow pay for my rent, car note, and some fees. I shot worrying to the ground. I barely prayed because a way was going to SOMEHOW be made. I thought to myself, "He is sovereign" and left it at that. All of sudden, a couple of financial doors were opened on God's accord and not on mine.
Now granted, the Scripture above references that we not "worry" and not necessarily that we not "pray" during these times. But I do think the pastor has a point in questioning the point of praying for these things when they have already been promised to us ... when all we have to do is keep on seeking His Kingdom and His righteousness. Just some food for thought.
Feel free to chime in.
MATTHEW 6:
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
I have numerous testimonies about how my back was against the wall financially, but the Lord somehow, someway always made a way WHENEVER I refused to worry. The most recent situation was me being down to just chump change in my banking account, maxed out on a couple of credit cards, and needing to somehow pay for my rent, car note, and some fees. I shot worrying to the ground. I barely prayed because a way was going to SOMEHOW be made. I thought to myself, "He is sovereign" and left it at that. All of sudden, a couple of financial doors were opened on God's accord and not on mine.
Now granted, the Scripture above references that we not "worry" and not necessarily that we not "pray" during these times. But I do think the pastor has a point in questioning the point of praying for these things when they have already been promised to us ... when all we have to do is keep on seeking His Kingdom and His righteousness. Just some food for thought.
Feel free to chime in.