1/29/23 "No Pity Party "

1/29/23

5 Minutes of Focus 

"No Pity Party"

Answer me, Lord, answer me, so these people will know that you, Lord, are God, and that you are turning their hearts back again.” Then the fire of the Lord fell and burned up the sacrifice, the wood, the stones and the soil, and also licked up the water in the trench.

1 Kings 18:37‭-‬38 NIV

1 Kings 19: Elijah came to a broom bush, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, Lord,” he said. “Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.”

1 Kings 19:4 NIV

In 1 Kings 18 God answered Elijah's prayer, but in 1 Kings 19 (the very next chapter) Elijah prayed, but he didn't get the answer he wanted.

If you feel like sometimes God answers you and sometimes He doesn't....YOU'RE RIGHT.

Beloved, God will not answer every prayer the way you want Him to, because if you're honest... Sometimes your prayers are full of faith, and other times your prayers are just you in your feelings talking to God.

So, God answered Elijah's 1st prayer...Because mentally his head was in a good place and he was full of faith.

But that 2nd prayer was totally different, Elijah was in his feelings, feeling sorry for himself and wanting to die.

Beloved, The one thing God will not do is have a pity party with you. If you want somebody to feel sorry for you that person won't be God.

He's waiting on you to realize that and renew your mind like He told you to do in 

Rom12:2 NIV

So much can be going on in  this world and in your personal world, but God never meant for you to be transformed (changed) by any of it.

No, If you want God to respond to your prayers, you must stay steadfast in faith no matter what and no pity parties EVER!!

Heb 11:5-6 MSG

Until Next Sunday. 

LPS~Love, Prophetess Stacy