Upright prayer

​“Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.” (James 4:3)

Even when we think we are right there is still so much to get right with God and so much to learn, because we have yet to attain. As long as we have this flesh to contend with, we will need to submit to the only true and wise God, daily, who is able to forgive our transgressions and remember them no more, “I bless You that they will not stand against me, for all have been laid on Christ.”

It’s when we have grown a good bit in Christ that we are willing and able to thank him for orchestrating life in such a way to cleanse and purge us. We think we know what is best for ourselves but we do not, only God knows. Thus, we are even grateful for the unanswered prayers that would have led to our destruction. It never feels good in the moment but after the storm has passed there is a blessed rainbow.

“I thank You that many of my prayers have been refused. I have asked amiss and do not have, I have prayed from lusts and been rejected, I have longed for Egypt and been given a wilderness. Go on with Your patient work, answering 'no' to my wrongful prayers, and fitting me to accept it. Purge me from every false desire, every base aspiration, everything contrary to Your rule. I thank You for Your wisdom and Your love, for all the acts of discipline to which I am subject, for sometimes putting me into the furnace to refine my gold and remove my dross…Deliver me from every evil habit, every accretion of former sins, everything that dims the brightness of Your grace in me, everything that prevents me taking delight in You. Then I shall bless You, God of jeshurun, for helping me to be upright.” Charles Spurgeon 

Bless us Lord to be able to see past ourselves today and see your glory.

GiGi❤️

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