What Do You Do When Prayer Is Not Enough?

Have you prayed and prayed and prayed and yet seem to get no where.   Prayer changes things, but often the greatest changes come when we get up and do something after we have prayed.  What is that something we need to do?  Obey what God says.    If  you have money issues and you are not tithing and giving offerings those money issues are going to  be there until you change.   If you have relationship issues and you are living with people and having relationships that go against the Word of God those issues are going to remain until you change.   If the cops are following you all over town and you keep getting arrested this is going to continue until you change.   If you can't get a good job and can't hold on to the ones you get this is going to continue until you change   I hear from people daily who have prayed and prayed and prayed and yet their circumstances do not change  Prayer changes things but often the thing that needs changed is me.  

Moses went through this at one of the worst crisis moments of his life.   The Red Sea was in front of him, Pharaoh and his armies were behind him and he was pinned in with no where to go.   So what did they do?  They did what anyone of us would do, they fell on their faces before God and began to pray.  Doesn't that seem the logical thing to do?  Isn't that what  most people would do in the same circumstance?   After all a miracle was their only prayer.   What was God's response to their prayers?  We find this in Exodus 14:15-16  15 And the Lord said to Moses, “Why do you cry to Me? Tell the children of Israel to go forward.16 But lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. And the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.

The Lord asked Moses why do you cry to Me?  Go forward into the sea.  Wow. That's a plan.  Why didn't Moses already think of that?  Because it is impossible.  When faced with impossibilities most often all we can think of to do is to cry out to God.  But the miracle doesn't come until we move forward.  Someone is thinking, "But that is impossible, how can I do that?"  By your faith.  They could have stayed on their faces crying out to God day and night and that sea was not going to move out of their way until they started  moving forward into it.   

Some of  you have been crying out to God because of your circumstances.  In spite of all the may REASONS you can't move forward in obedience to God just get up and do it anyway.   You are waiting on God to move, but actually God is waiting on YOU to move.   Just do it.  Obey God and move forward, it is the only way to get through it.