By Pastor Oloruntimilehin Joshua Daramola

The means of communicating with God is through prayer. People expect God to respond to prayers positively by making them come to reality. Many people do not know when and how to pray in spite of the fact that Jesus Christ taught us how to pray.

Matthew 6:5-13. There are hours of prayer which are to be observed faithfully. Jesus Christ was always praying, he even took three of his disciples to a place called Gethse-mane to pray. While he was praying the disciples were sleeping.

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Brethren prayer does a lot in people’s lives and devil always want to pre-vent people from praying and observing hourly prayer. He always want to put people into situation where they commit sin so that their prayers will not be answered.

Understanding the desire of devil in our life, it is imperative to examine our life, actions and relation-ship with people, even count our possessions. We count all these things to enable us know and appre-ciate the position and sit-uation we are presently in. As we are counting the good things about us we should remember to do the same for the bad things. Some people have spouses but still have four or more concubines. Some of these people treat their concu-bines better than their spouses by showing special love for them. They beli-eve nobody is seeing them but someone is seeing them and even recording their activities.

Brethren there is noth-ing one does that is secret to God whether good or bad. God will always use his prophets to reveal to you things you did in secret that are sinful.

Let‘s examine the story of King David, Bathsheba and Uriah. God loved David and had records of achievements; but David did not count the evil he perpetrated by impregna-ting Bathsheba, wife of Uriah and causing the death of Uriah. God was displeased with David for what he did because it was evil. II Samuel 11:1-26.

David felt indifferent and failed to realize the devilish act as a sin then God sent Prophet Nathan to him who told David a parable of two men, one rich and the other poor. The rich man exploited the poor man by taking the only lamb of the poor man to prepare it for his visitor. The rich man had many lambs from which he could afford to prepare more than one for his visitor. Nathan told David that he was the rich man; that in spite of all the things God did for David to make him comfortable; he despised the command-ment of God and did evil in the sight of God. Nathan now revealed to him all he did to Uriah and his wife that he taught was secret.

Many people have done secretly what is evil and sinful to God and believed that no one saw them but God saw everything. Im-mediately David realized he had sinned against God. Brethren, my concern for you is that you examine yourself and start count-ing all the evil things you have done secretly that are hindering answers to your prayers. Some people prefer to be seen and make people believe they are saints and holy whereas they are not.

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