We cannot substitute obedience with prayer.
"As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not raise up a cry or a prayer on their behalf, for I will not be listening when they call out to Me at the time of their disaster."
Jeremiah 11:14 (HCSB)
"It is futile to pray for those who have deliberately cast off the covenant of Jehovah and made a covenant with His adversary. Prayer cannot save, nothing can save, the impenitent; and there is a state of mind, in which one's own prayer is turned into sin; the state of mind in which a man prays, merely to appease God, and escape the fire, but without a thought of forsaking sin, without the faintest aspiration after holiness. There is a degree of guilt upon which sentence is already passed, which is "unto death," and for which prayer is interdicted alike by the prophet of the new and of the old covenant." (C. J. Ball, M. A.)
We cannot substitute obedience with prayer. We need to be intimate with God and obedient to Him, and then our communication with Him will produce in us the works that God intends for us
Jeremiah 11:14 (HCSB)
"It is futile to pray for those who have deliberately cast off the covenant of Jehovah and made a covenant with His adversary. Prayer cannot save, nothing can save, the impenitent; and there is a state of mind, in which one's own prayer is turned into sin; the state of mind in which a man prays, merely to appease God, and escape the fire, but without a thought of forsaking sin, without the faintest aspiration after holiness. There is a degree of guilt upon which sentence is already passed, which is "unto death," and for which prayer is interdicted alike by the prophet of the new and of the old covenant." (C. J. Ball, M. A.)
We cannot substitute obedience with prayer. We need to be intimate with God and obedient to Him, and then our communication with Him will produce in us the works that God intends for us
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