The Ability of God---New Covenant Prayer ! ! !

THE ABILITY OF GOD---NEW COVENANT PRAYER: Prayer Does Not Change God ! "But when you pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking (Matthew 6:7). Jesus cut away some religious theology right there. I had always heard that if you just keep praying, God would finally answer you. "Just keep on praying, keep bombarding the gates of heaven !" Some think if you can get more people praying, you will finally talk God into it. But you are not going to change God by your praying. God said, "I am the Lord, I change not" (Malachi 3:6). You can change yourself by praying and getting yourself in line with the Word so God can answer. Many people are getting in line for church programs. Yes, prayer changes things, but it does not change God. Hezekiah is a good example of this. God sent a prophet to tell him to get his house in order for he was going to die. Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, prayed, repented, and changed his position before God. Today, you have many who pray and do not repent nor change their position before God but continue in their vein way of living. What I mean by this, they live Monday through Friday clubbing, smoking, drinking, carousing, partying, and and listening to ungodly music which keeps the mind thinking like the world and the devil and there is no process of renewing the mind with the Word of God but with the world and when Sunday morning comes, they go to what they call church so they can feel justified in their lifestyles. Now, notice after Hezekiah prayed, and repented: Then God said, "you will live 15 more years." Many think that he prayed and change God's mind. For years I thought that was true, but he didn't change God's mind. It was God's will all along that he live a full life, but Hezekiah got out of His will and God said that this would cause him to die a premature death. When he repented, God said, "Now you will live." You do not change God by your praying, for He does not change. For years I doubt God didn't want me to have whatever I was praying about, because of what I have heard preacher said down through the years. It simply messed up my thinking, but when I decided to study to show myself approved unto God a workman that need not to be a shame rightly dividing the Word of truth. I found that a lot of things you hear from your pulpit are not scriptural. Yes, I was trying to talk him into letting me have. I found my job was to keep pestering Him like I did my mother, until she changed her mind just to get rid of me. No, God does not operate that way. Faith moves God, not prayer alone.