What Kind of Prayer Pleases God?

 What Kind of Prayer Pleases God?

“This is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.” (Isaiah 66:2)

The first mark of the upright heart is that it trembles at the word of the Lord. 

Isaiah 66 deals with the problem of some who worship in a way that pleases God and some who worship in a way that doesn’t. Verse 3 describes the wicked who bring their sacrifices, “He who slaughters an ox is like one who kills a man.” Their sacrifices are an abomination to God — on a par with murder. Why? 

In verse 4 God explains, “When I called, no one answered, when I spoke, they did not listen.” Their sacrifices were abominations to God because the people were deaf to his voice. But what about those whose prayers God heard? God says in verse 2, “This is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.” 

I conclude from this that the first mark of the upright, whose prayers are a delight to God, is that they tremble at God’s word. These are the people to whom the Lord will look. 

So, the prayer of the upright that delights God comes from a heart that at first feels precarious in the presence of God. It trembles at the hearing of God’s word, because it feels so far from God’s ideal and so vulnerable to his judgment and so helpless and so sorry for its failings. 

This is just what David said in Psalm 51:17, “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.” The first thing that makes a prayer acceptable to God is the brokenness and humility of the one who prays. They tremble at his word.

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Every day in the God's Word

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

TUESDAY JUNE 16, 2026.

SUBJECT : GOD’S LOVE IS CONSISTENT! 

Memory verse: "For I am the Lord, I do not change; therefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob." (Malachi 3 vs 6.)

READ: Luke 15 vs 11 - 20:

15:11: Then He said, “A certain man had two sons. 

15:12: And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.’ So he divided to them his livelihood.

15:13: And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living.

15:14: But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land; and he began to be in want.

15:15: Then he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

15:16: And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him anything. 

15:17: And when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

15:18: I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before you,

15:19: and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.”

15:20: And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.

INTIMATION:

God’s love for you and I is consistent in accordance with His nature. God’s character will never change. He persistently shows His love for us. He does not change in reference to His promises. God’s promises cannot be changed because they came from the One who cannot lie. God cannot lie, neither has He ever broken His oath. He is always fair, just, and merciful to us who are undeserving. 

In the passage we read today, the prodigal son left out of selfishness (Luke 15 vs 12). He went to a foreign country wasted his life and resources, and sunk to the depths. The young man, like many who are rebellious and immature, wanted to be free to live as he pleased, and he had to hit the bottom before he came to himself. The father watched and waited with his love for the son consistent and intact. He was dealing with a human being with a will of his own, but he was ready to receive his son back if he returned. 

In the same way, God’s love is constant, patient and welcoming. He will search for us and give us opportunities to respond, but He will not force us to come to Him. Like the father in the story above, God waits patiently for us to come to our senses. God’s great love reaches out and finds sinners no matter why or how they got lost. Be thankful that God is changeless, He will always help you when you need it and offer forgiveness when you fall. 

Once the prodigal son had made the decision to return, and was in the process of returning to his father, the father embraced him and accepted him back into the family. However, when the prodigal son was in the pig pen, the father did not search him out and drag him back home. The son had to make the decision for himself in order that his repentance bring forth fruit in his life. This is exactly how God relates with us. He loves us consistently and will always be available to receive us in love whenever we come to Him. 

God loved man in his state of being unlovable. The agape (love) of God, therefore, was given without conditions. It was not that man was righteous, and thus, deserved the righteous act of God through the sacrifice of the cross. It was unearned love. Therefore, our state at anytime will not hinder His consistent love for us because He never loved us because of our lovable state or conditions. 

Now, look at the conclusion of the whole matter as the apostle Paul says, “....We are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor power, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8 vs 37 - 39.)

These verses contain one of the most comforting promises in all Scriptures. Believers have always had to face hardships in many forms: persecution, illness, imprisonment, and even death. These sometimes cause them to fear that they have been abandoned by Christ. But the apostle Paul exclaims that it is impossible to be separated from Christ. His death for us is proof of His unconquerable love. Nothing can separate us from Christ’s presence. God tells us how great His love is so that we will feel totally secure in Him. 

Prayer: Abba Father, I thank You for Your consistent love for me. My utmost heart desire is to consistently trust and obey You in all things, at all times, and in all circumstances in my journey of life. Endue me with the spirit of consistent obedience and love for You, in Jesus' Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!

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Serve God with Your Thirst

 Serve God with Your Thirst

So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him. (2 Corinthians 5:9)

What if you discovered (like the Pharisees did) that you had devoted your whole life to trying to please God, but all the while had been doing things that in God’s sight were abominations (Luke 16:14–15)? 

Someone may question this and say, “I don’t think that’s possible; God wouldn’t reject a person who has been trying to please him.” But do you see what this questioner has done? He has based his conviction about what would please God on his idea of what God is like. That is precisely why we must begin with the character of God revealed in Scripture.

God is a mountain spring, not a watering trough. A mountain spring is self-replenishing. It constantly overflows and supplies others. But a watering trough needs to be filled with a pump or bucket. So, the great question is: How do you serve a spring? And: How do you serve a watering trough? How do you glorify God the way he really is?

If you want to glorify the worth of a watering trough, you work hard to keep it full and useful. But if you want to glorify the worth of a spring, you do it by getting down on your hands and knees and drinking to your heart’s satisfaction, until you have the refreshment and strength to go back down in the valley and tell the people what you’ve found.

My hope as a desperate sinner hangs on this biblical truth: that God is the kind of God who will be pleased with the one thing I have to offer: my thirst. That’s why the sovereign freedom and self-sufficiency of God are so precious to me: they are the foundation of my hope that God is delighted not by the resourcefulness of bucket brigades, but by the bending down of broken sinners to drink at the fountain of grace.

By all means we should seek to please God, now and forever. But woe to us if our whole life proves to be based on a false view of what pleases God. The Lord is pleased not by those who treat him as a needy watering trough, but as an inexhaustible, all-satisfying spring. As Psalm 147:11 says, “The Lord takes pleasure . . . in those who hope in his steadfast love.”

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Every day in the God's Word

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

MONDAY JUNE 15, 2026.

SUBJECT : MEDITATING ON THE WORD!

Memory verse: "This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.” (Joshua 1 vs 8.)

READ: Psalm 1 vs 1 - 6:

1:1: Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful.

1:2: But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditates day and night.

1:3: He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season; whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper.

1:4: The ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

1:5: Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

1:6: For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

INTIMATION:

Meditation is to consider thoughtfully; engage in contemplation; an act of deep thought or consideration. It’s giving yourself entirely to acquiring an in-depth understanding. Meditating on the Word of God is very essential for drawing closer to God. Studying and meditating on the Word take time and effort, but it is the prerequisite for acquiring the revelational knowledge about God. 

Meditation is like digesting food you ate. It helps to process the Word of God that has been taken in and applying it to the appropriate part of your spiritual life. Just as food digested strengthens and nourishes your body, meditation and understanding of the Word also builds up reserves for you to draw some nourishment and strength from when you need it.

We are to learn how to follow God by meditating on His Word. This means spending time reading and thinking about what you have read. It means asking yourself how you should change so you will live as God wants. Knowing and thinking about God’s Word are the first steps toward applying it to your everyday life. If you want to follow God more closely, you must know what He says. 

Jesus said, “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.” (John 15 vs 7.) It is only through studying and meditating on the Word of God that the Word truly abides in you as you understand God better. Consequently, you shall receive your desires from the Lord because you will always ask according to His Will revealed to you.

Remember you know how to meditate as you are already doing it when you worry; constantly dwelling on a subject, thinking about it from every angle. Now, use this same skill in a constructive way, that is, a godly way to analyze and digest the Word. Believers know the Word is important, they read it, learn it, and at times become excited about what they read. But they may not have real attraction to the Word. 

When you meditate on the Word and grasp the real import or revelational knowledge of the Word, it becomes more like your daily spiritual vitamin pill to stay healthy. You will then begin to appreciate how it impacts on their life, and would not think of missing its input. 

David caught the revelation on God’s Word, and he said, “How sweet are Your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!” (Psalm 119 vs 103.) When the Word is as sweet as honey to the believers' mouth, their desire for the Word is more than even their food, just like Job and David. Meditation on the Word becomes major part of their lives.

The more we know of the scope of God’s Word, the more resources we will have to guide us in our daily decisions and struggles. The psalmist says that meditation in the Word engenders fruitfulness, resourcefulness, and prosperous living: “But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditate day and night. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season; whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper.” (Psalm 1 vs 2 - 3.) 

In our memory verse, God assured Joshua of prosperity and good success if he makes the Word of God His permanent companion, meditating on it always, and observe to do all contained in it. A natural outflow of reading and meditating on the Word from a fresh perspective is deepening praise and worship. Scriptures provides a rich source for both. In addition, songs that once were humdrum should now seem more meaningful and touch your heart in a fresh way. 

Let your main focus of close relationship with God be on spending quality time with the Lord in prayer and Bible study. Then you will experience increased sensitivity to His voice, and become more God-centered in your life and desires.

Prayer: Abba Father, my soul thirst for You, and Your Word is sweet to me as honey. Give me the grace, hunger, and desire to meditate on it always, and the strength and heart desire to do all that is contained therein, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed. Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!

The Honeymoon That Never Ends

 The Honeymoon That Never Ends

As the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you. (Isaiah 62:5)

When God does good to his people, it is not so much like a reluctant judge showing kindness to a criminal whom he finds despicable. It is like a bridegroom showing affection to his bride. 

Sometimes we joke and say about a marriage, “The honeymoon is over.” But that’s because we are finite. We can’t sustain a honeymoon level of intensity and affection. But God says that his joy over his people is like a bridegroom over a bride. And he doesn’t mean it starts out that way and then fades.

He is talking about honeymoon intensity and honeymoon pleasures and honeymoon energy and excitement and enthusiasm and enjoyment. He is trying to get into our hearts what he means when he says he rejoices over us with all his heart. Jeremiah 32:41, “I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, with all my heart and all my soul.” Zephaniah 3:17, “The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.”

With God the honeymoon never ends. He is infinite in power and wisdom and creativity so that there will be no boredom for the next trillion ages of millenniums.

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Every day in the God's Word

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

SUNDAY JUNE 14, 2026.

SUBJECT : POVERTY IS PART OF THE CURSE OF THE LAW!

Memory verse: "Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree") (Galatians 3 vs 13.)

READ: Deuteronomy 28 vs 15 - 20:

28:15: But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

28:16: Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country.

28:17: Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

28:18: Cursed shall be the fruit of your body and the produce of your land, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.

28:19: Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.

28:20: The LORD will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the wickedness of your doings in which you have forsaken Me.

INTIMATION:

Poverty is a curse. It is part of the curse of the law. The passage we read today reveals the curse of poverty inherent in disobedience to God’s law. In the beginning God placed everything that man could use and enjoy in the Garden of Eden. His Will is for us to lack nothing, and be in abundance. God saw to it that Adam lacked no good thing. Haven created Adam in his own image and after His likeness (as we are also created) left nothing to be desired, but asked for their obedience to a single command; “Do not eat of the of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.” (Genesis 2 vs 17). Adam was the master of the kingdom given to him. God only placed Himself above Adam as his Master.

God's Will of abundance for Adam was supreme until that fatal day he committed high treason against God, haven believed the devil with his wife, Eve, and doubted God’s integrity. When Adam partook of the deadly tree, he died, not physically but spiritually. Spiritual death—the nature of Satan—overtook his once righteous spirit, and he became one with Satan. Every phase of Adam's life came under the curse of his new god, Satan. He was driven from the Garden; abundance was no longer his to enjoy. He had to toil and sweat in order to survive. His beautiful life was overrun by thorns and thistles both in the physical and in the spiritual world.

God's heart yearns for His people to be free, and in His infinite wisdom and mercy, sent His only Son, Jesus Christ, as a propitiation for our sins. He paid the supreme price for our sins, and redeemed us from the curse of the law, when He was nailed to, and hung on the cross, and shed His blood for the remission of our sins. The Scripture says, "Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree") (Galatians 3 vs 13.)

The Scripture reveals that Jesus bore the curse of poverty at the same time He bore the curse of sickness (Isaiah 53 vs 4 - 5). You can believe for divine prosperity just as you believe for divine health. Both blessings already belong to you. You should refuse lack just as quickly as you refuse sickness because they both are the curse of the law, and Christ has already redeemed you from that curse. The blessing of Abraham is ours, as well as the promises of the Spirit. God’s wish is that we shall prosper in all things and be in health, just as our soul prospers (Third John 2). 

Prosperity is God's Will for us. Most of us usually look at prosperity in a different way from other things, such as divine health. There are Word principles for divine health, healing, deliverance etc., as well as divine prosperity and abundance, and they all work the same way.

But we have not been using the Word to believe for divine prosperity as we had for divine health. We usually live in the laws of prosperity (paying tithes, give offering, make kingdom investments etc.), but we don't take authority in the Word for prosperity. If you have obeyed the laws, and then refuse to take what belongs to you, you will miss it. 

We have been acting on prosperity differently from other provisions of the Word. In this way, we would allow symptoms of lack to come on us and stay there. We are willing to tolerate it, and sometimes claim is God's Will. But the word is very clear on the Will of God (Jeremiah 29 vs 11 & Third John vs 2). If you have obeyed the laws of prosperity, then take authority in the Word over it because it belongs to you.

Satan will always come to us with the thoughts of doubt and say; "There is no way you can have your needs met." "There is no way you can come out of your debts because you are poor, your salary cannot carry you through." "There is no way you can do all you ought to do, build a house, by a car, marry etc., There is just no way." Your answer to him should be "No Satan, my God is able! Christ has redeemed me from the curse of the law, and the blessing of Abraham are mine in Christ Jesus." You will hang your faith completely in the Scriptures.

Confess continually the Word in Second Corinthians 9 vs 8 and personalize it; "And God is able to make all grace abound toward me; that me, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.” The Amplified Version is more revealing on this verse, “:And God is able to make all grace (every favor and earthly blessing) come to me in abundance, so that I may always and under all circumstances and whatever the need, be self-sufficient [possessing enough to require no aid or support and furnished in abundance for every good work and charitable donations]. 

The Word says that God is able to get it to you. Don't look up to natural sources. Don't look at your job, your present position, your natural capabilities, and present financial position, but look up to God. Keep your eyes single on the Word. Trust Him in whatever your hands have found to do, He will prosper you there. You have to realize and know that He can and will work on your behalf. God is real! He is able to get things done!

Prayer: Abba Father, thank you for all you have given me in redemption. Through the grace of our Messiah, Jesus Christ; though He was rich, yet for my sake He became poor, that I through His poverty might become rich. I refuse the lies of the devil, and embrace the truth of my abundant life in Christ Jesus: Abraham blessings are mine, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!

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How Much God Wants to Bless You

 How Much God Wants to Bless You

“The Lord will again take delight in prospering you.” (Deuteronomy 30:9)

God does not bless us begrudgingly. There is a kind of eagerness about the beneficence of God. He does not wait for us to come to him. He seeks us out, because it is his pleasure to do us good. God is not waiting for us; he is pursuing us. That, in fact, is the literal translation of Psalm 23:6, “Surely goodness and mercy shall pursue me all the days of my life.”

God loves to show mercy. Let me say it again. God loves to show mercy. He is not hesitant or indecisive or tentative in his desires to do good to his people. His anger must be released by a stiff safety lock, but his mercy has a hair trigger. That’s what he meant when he came down on Mount Sinai and said to Moses, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love” (Exodus 34:6). It’s what he meant when he said in Jeremiah 9:24, “I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the Lord.” 

God is never irritable or edgy. His anger never has a short fuse. Instead he is infinitely energetic with absolutely unbounded and unending enthusiasm for the fulfillment of his delights.

This is hard for us to comprehend, because we have to sleep every day just to cope, not to mention thrive. Our emotions go up and down. We get bored and discouraged one day and feel hopeful and excited another. 

We are like little geysers that gurgle and sputter and pop erratically. But God is like a great Niagara Falls — you look at 186,000 tons of water crashing over the precipice every minute, and think: Surely this can’t keep going at this force year after year after year. Yet it does.

That’s the way God is about doing us good. He never grows weary of it. It never gets boring to him. The Niagara of his grace has no end.

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