Tuesday, November 10, 2026
“Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word” (Psalm 119:9 KJV).
If our physical posterity could augment its spiritual dexterity, exactly what would that entail?
We must repeat for emphasis. The four large model Pauline prayers—Ephesians 1:15-23, Ephesians 3:14-21, Philippians 1:9-11, and Colossians 1:9-11—should serve as our primary prayer patterns. If we pray what our Apostle Paul prayed, we are praying as God Himself in Paul prayed for us (the Body of Christ). Those prayers will always, always, always, always be answered!
However, when we in “but now” pray according to “time past” promises, Scriptures to and about Israel, we create difficulties that should not be there (and are, in fact, not there in God’s program). This is our fault, not God’s. Nevertheless, since He does not give people their way, they retaliate by accusing Him of negligence. He was expected to do what they wanted instead of do what He wants. God is the Creator, so He makes the rules. Yet, our sinful flesh strives to be independent of Him. Evil exists because people choose to disobey the LORD God, attempting to use feeble efforts to generate their own “life” without Him. Therefore, we tend to make our own prayer life, and wind up in more trouble than we could have ever imagined. (Is that not so?)
Denominationalists have devised an extremely clever method to try and get away with their delusions as touching prayer. In fact, they have even deceived themselves. They assume they can cite Hebrews 13:8 or Malachi 3:6 to justify a faulty assumption (“God is still doing today what He did in history!”); Paul learned otherwise in 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 (!). Of course, they readily admit we would be foolish to prepare for a global flood by building an ark as Noah did, and freely tell us it is inappropriate to offer animal sacrifices as Moses commanded—but they are so fixated on their religious fervor that they disregard these changes in God’s dealings with man. They strive to convince themselves (and us) that He will cater to their every whim and hunch, even going to great lengths to uphold their denominational systems. Let us beware of them….
NOTE: In order to bring you a special study tomorrow, we will temporarily break way from this devotionals arc….
