How Much of Our Prayer Life Is Spent Praying Against the Laws Of God?

I felt lead to begin writing on prayer.  The past couple of days the Lord has been revealing to me just how much of our prayer time is spent praying for things that we have need of all because WE DON'T OBEY GOD.   Yesterday we talked about seeking first the Kingdom of God.   The Lord asked us the question:  If we do not put the things of God as a priority in life, why would God put our things as a priority in life?  The answer is simple.  He won't!   Yet, when we seek the Kingdom of God FIRST, God adds to us everything we need.   So, if we aren't seeking the Kingdom of God first and we are lacking in things we need, is it even prudent to pray for those things?  Of course we can, but, we won't see much results.   I know people that have been needy all their life, prayed for their needs all their life, and are still needy today.  They pray to God for provisions, but they DO NOT SEEK first the things of God in life.  They live for the things they desire, not God's desire.  

Today we are going to talk about how each of us will reap what we sew.   Often when we are praying and we are wanting to see circumstances change.  Sometimes we are in those circumstances because of the way we choose to live.   There are laws by which God created this universe.   For instance the law of gravity, what goes up, must come down.  We all know and understand this law.  God also made spiritual laws that govern the universe.  Even if you do not believe in God you will not get away from the Spiritual laws that God has built into this universe.  For instance the 'law of giving', it is more blessed to give than to receive, and give and it shall be given unto you.  Even if you do not believe in God or the Bible at all those laws are at work in your life.  The whole earth is subject to the laws that God built the foundation of this earth upon.   The spiritual law that I want to talk about today is the law that says you reap what you sow.

How many times are we sowing 'wild oats' so to speak and then praying for CROP FAILURE?   Is it even prudent to break God's Word and then pray that the consequences of breaking His Word would pass you by?  I know we all make mistakes at times, but I see many people who sin over and over again with NO PLANS of stopping, and yet they pray for God to bless them and do away with the consequences of those sins.  People are not ignorant of the law of sowing and reaping.  I see people post online all the time about the 'karma bus' coming to visit.  We all understand that what goes around comes around.  People think that God is the ticket off the karma bus.  Uh...he was the one that set up that law in the first place, he is not going to stop the law of sowing and reaping in your life.  Get used to the idea that whatever you do, good or bad, is going to come back to you.  It most certainly will. 

  For instance, if you do not give tithe of your finances, is it even prudent to ask God to BLESS your finances, or give you a raise?  Isn't that a lot like sneaking out at night and then asking  your dad to not ground you for doing so?  Why would  a child sneak out and night, and then go to their dad the next day and say, "And please don't let me get into trouble for sneaking out."  Does it make any since at all to BREAK GOD'S WORD and then go to him and pray, "Oh, please don't let the consequences of that come back to bite me?"  Of course the consequences are going to come back to bite  you.  Why?  Because there is a spiritual law that says we 'reap what we sow.'  Sometimes prayer is not our answer.  Sometimes our answer is that we need to change our lifestyle and begin to line up our life with the Word of God. 

What does the Bible say about this? 
Proverbs 1:

24Because I have called, and you refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

25But you have ignored all my counsel, and would have none of my reproof:

26I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes;

27When your terror comes as desolation, and your destruction comes as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish comes upon you.

28Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

29Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

30They would have none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.

31Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

32For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

33But whosoever hearkens unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be secure from the fear of evil.

 

We have been discussing prayer.  Over the years we have had a lot of people come to us for help when they are in trouble.  They have done wrong things and didn't live like the bible says to live and now they are  reaping what they have sown and with the harvest comes destruction and sorrows.  The sad part is that when we pray and their circumstances start to get better they go right back to their old life of sin, and chose to INGORE God again.  I know that as soon as they get into trouble, I will hear from them again.  

 

When we pray we need to look at how much of our prayer request was the result of our own bad choices in life.  Whatever you need to change,  ask God to change you.  God's law that we reap what we sow is not going to change.  It is we that must change.  If you don't want to get messed up all the time?  Live the way that God asks us to live in the Bible, then when you reap what you sow you will be glad to receive your harvest.