How Do You Know A No?

 

I’m Duane Matz and welcome to Today’s Living Word.

 

De 3:25 'I pray, let me cross over and see the good land beyond the Jordan, those pleasant mountains, and Lebanon.' 26 "But the LORD was angry with me on your account, and would not listen to me. So the LORD said to me: 'Enough of that! Speak no more to Me of this matter.

 

Today, we are hopping into the prayer closet with Moses. Evidently it had been a persistent prayer of his to be able to cross into the promised land, but God, who advocates for persistency in our prayer life, (See the parable of the persistent neighbor in Luke Lu 11:5-10) tells Moses to stop it! He flat out told Moses “Enough of that!”

 

Wow! Makes you wonder about your own unanswered prayers doesn’t it. Sometimes the answer is a definite no!

 

But how do you know a no? How do you know when to stop asking?

 

I would recommend getting more in tune with God’s spokesperson given to you as a believer……the Holy Spirit, that’s a request God will not turn down.

 

  Lu 11:13 "If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!"

 

You can’t go wrong with more of the Holy Spirit. He will bring clarity to your situation; He will lead you in your prayers.

 

Ro 8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

 27 Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

 

Sometimes that “will” is a definite no, other times a yes, and other times it’s not yet.

 

I’m Duane Matz and that’s Today’s Living Word