Called By Christ To Be ONE: PRAYER MATTERS

DON’T IGNORE GOD!

“How often has God stood by ready, willing and able to help us, but we never turned to Him or gave Him an opportunity to intervene and bring glory to Himself through our crisis.”– Daniel Kolenda

We have often forfeited peace and struggled under the load of unnecessary burdens – all because we did not inquire of the Lord. What’s worse, an opportunity to bring glory to God was lost.

What is so amazing is that Asa makes the very same mistake again only 3 verses later: “In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet – until his disease became very severe; yet in his disease he did not seek the Lord, but relied on the physicians.And Asa slept with his fathers, dying in the forty-first year of his reign.” (2 Chronicle 16:12-13 AMP)

Can you see the pattern? The author is trying to communicate a moral through this story that is of utmost importance. Asa called upon the help of foreign armies instead of the Lord and as a result he inherited perpetual war. He called on the aid of doctors, instead of the Lord, when he became sick and as a result he inherited death. God wanted to help Asa. God wanted to deliver him from his enemies. God wanted to heal him from his diseases. But for some strange reason, like so many of us, Asa ignored God in the issues that mattered most and as a result he sealed his own fate.

The final verse of the chapter sums Asa’s life up with an almost contemptuous caption: “And they buried him in his own tomb which he had hewn out for himself.” In essence, Asa dug his own grave and put the final nail in his own coffin because he insisted on calling upon the arm of flesh rather than on the Lord. God was insulted by Asa’s disregard and gave him over to that which he feared most. Jeremiah 17:5 says, “Thus says the LORD, ‘Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind. And makes flesh his strength, and whose heart turns away from the LORD.’”

We hope you enjoyed this Bible Study by Daniel Kolenda. Be on the lookout for the next teaching TRUST IN GOD in one week.

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This Bible Study has been taken from Evangelist Daniel Kolenda’s book, “Unlocking the Miraculous through Faith and Prayer.” This book will challenge your thinking on prayer and inspire you to believe in the amazing power of the Spirit to unlock the miraculous in your life!