Why Prayers Aren't Answered: Guard Your Words and Thoughts

A lot of times the enemy will get you to meditate on, oh, see, it's not working. You hadn't received it in thirty days. Oh, you didn't receive it in a year. Oh, you didn't receive it. How? It's been years since you've been praying about it and still not seeing anything. Wait a minute. Ask yourself the question based on Psalm nineteen fourteen. How much now are you focusing on that it's not come to pass? It's not coming to pass. What are you doing wrong? What did I do wrong? What do I need to do? Rather than what you prayed and what you're expecting for. [00:04:45] (36 seconds)  #FocusOnThePromise

Out of the abundance of the heart. So if you keep meditating on it, you keep thinking well, know, my wife's this, my wife's that, my husband's this, my husband's that, or you think that lady whatever is the better woman for you and you keep meditating upon it before you know it, you're gonna speak it out of your mouth. You're gonna ask that person to do something that violates your marriage covenant. Just keep packing it on, packing it in. That's how Jesus said. The evil people, that's what they do, man. They just keep abundantly sinning, abundantly just packing on more and more evil and eventually it defines them. [00:08:06] (41 seconds)  #ThoughtsLeadToActions

Verse 14, your prayer life is defined by these two principles. The words of your mouth, what are you speaking? And what are you meditating on? Sometimes what you're meditating on isn't really the truth. The enemy always tries to get you to meditate on the wrong thing. Jesus was hungry in the wilderness. And what did he do? He said, hey, man, turn these stones to bread. Let me alter your appetite. That's what he does. He alters our appetite. Right? Gets us to think that, you know, having Sundays off is better than entering into the house of the Lord, whether it be online or in person. [00:08:53] (50 seconds)  #WordsAndMeditation

Okay. Watch this. Remember not the former I've listen, I've done it. I was in high school and that song came out and I had a few moments that I was like, I'm forever yours faithfully. Thank God I'm not. I have Brenda. Remember the former things. Don't even meditate on it, speak about it, rehearse it. Relive the moment. If you do, verse 19 can happen. Verse 19. Behold, I will do a new thing. Now it shall spring forth. If you want some new things, it's called answer to prayer. Because if you don't have it, it means when it happens, it's a new thing. It's a good thing. It's a now thing. It's an answer to prayer thing. [00:15:25] (60 seconds)  #BeholdANewThing