Our hearts dictate our motives in prayer - what we ask for
when we pray and why we ask. The Book of
James says that one of the hindrances to answered prayer is impure
motives. James says, “When you ask, you
do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you
get on your pleasures.” We cannot expect to receive anything from God when we
ask to receive from Him with only our own pleasure in mind.
Jesus showed us the way to pray with a pure heart. When faced with the excruciating execution on
Calvary, Jesus punctuates His prayer to the Heavenly Father with the
qualification, “not my will, but your will be done.” As we continue our 40-day
prayer journey, approaching our Heavenly Father about all manner of needs and
situations, let us be sure to purify our hearts from the contamination of
self-centeredness and temporal focus.
Let us seek to calibrate our minds to seek and obey God’s agenda, praying
with all sincerity, “not my will, but Your will be done!”
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