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NASB | Proverbs 15:29 The LORD is far from the wicked, But He hears the prayer of the righteous. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Proverbs 15:29 The LORD is far from the wicked [and distances Himself from them], But He hears the prayer of the [consistently] righteous [that is, those with spiritual integrity and moral courage]. |
Subject: Does God hear a sinner's prayer? |
Bible Note: Thank you for your response, Inerrant Word. Welcome as an active participant in the Forum.References to prayer in the Bible are numerous indeed, leading one to draw with ease the inference that God places it high on His list of priorities. In Romans 10:13 Paul, quoting Joel (2:32) says, "for whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved." Verse 9 of this chapter says, "If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved." Combining the two, then, we arrive at what has been called the "sinner's prayer." We have the assurance of His word that He will hear and answer a prayer like that. Of course I'm referring to the "unsaved sinner" here. We are, all of us who are Christian, only sinners saved by grace, as the hymn has it. Christians can be denied answer to prayer for a number of reasons cited in Scripture. For example,they can ask with the wrong motives (James 4:3), or with wickedness in their heart (Psalm 66:18) Scripture lists a number of other things that cause us to become out of fellowship with God. We can be a child of God (saved) but live in such a manner that we fall out of fellowship with Him. The Bible teaches that our prayers fall on deaf ears until we confess our sins and ask forgiveness, thus restoring our fellowship, our intimacy if you will, with God. Few of us perhaps have not, at some time in our Christian walk, fallen out of fellowship with God. In his lovingkindness He reached out to us and brought us back. John Henry Newman writes about such an experience in his book, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, and recapitulates it beautifully in the lyrics which he wrote to the stirring hymn, Lead, Kindly Light. |
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hunger and thirst |