Word
of God
But
he answering, said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread only,
but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
The
Gospel According to Matthew 4:4
Psalm
17:6
Prefaced
& Edited by Doktor Riktor Von Zhades
I
have called upon thee: surely thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine
ear to me, and hearken unto my words.
Brethren:
If
there is one thing that our Creator does without fail is to hear
prayer. As to how He answers them is a different matter entirely. But
hear them He does.
In
1969, the rock group “The Doors” wrote a song entitled “Soft
Parade”. The opening lyrics were as follows with Jim Morrison
imitating a fire and brimstone type preacher
When
I was back there in seminary school
There
was a person there
Who
put forth the proposition
That
you can petition the Lord with prayer
Petition
the lord with prayer
Petition
the lord with prayer
You
cannot petition the lord with prayer!
Sadly,
for him, this is not so. In various translations of the Bible we
find that the word petition shows up in many instances. In particular
in the O.T. we find it many times.*
So
for God to not hear prayer, or our supplication, our petitions is a
rather wrongheaded concept put forth by someone who probably knew
nothing of God at all, but thought it would be novel to be someone he
never would, or never could be.
Dr.
Riktor Von Zhades - Servant of Christ.
“This
had been the constant practice of the psalmist, and he still
continued in it. [For] God is a God hearing prayer; he is used to
hear his people, and they have frequent experience of it, and they
may be assured that whatsoever they ask according to his will, and in
the name of Christ, he will hear; and such an assurance is a reason
engaging the saints to a constant calling upon God, (Read Psalms
116:2 ), and such confidence of being always heard Christ had, ( Read
John 11:41 John 11:42 ). [David’s] prayer, which he now directed to
him in full assurance of being heard.
John
Gill 17th Century Theologian
*
GNV 17, KJV 15, NKJV 21
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