A key to answered prayer

"What I'm interested in seeing you do is..." Isa 58:7 MSG

Max Lucado writes: "Ours is the wealthiest generation
of Christians ever. We are bright, educated, and
experienced. We can travel around the world in
twenty-four hours or send a message in a millisecond.
We have the most sophisticated research and
medicines at the tips of our fingers. We have ample
resources. A mere 2 percent of the world's grain
harvest would be enough, if shared, to erase the
problems of hunger and malnutrition around the world.
There is enough food on the planet to offer every
person twenty-five hundred calories of sustenance a
day. We have enough food to feed the hungry.When
your grandchildren discover you lived during a day in
which 1.75 billion people were poor and 1 billion were
hungry, how will they judge your response?" More
importantly, what will God say? When the Israelites
complained that God wouldn't answer their prayer, He
told them: "What I'm interested in seeing you do is:
sharing your food with the hungry, inviting the
homeless poor into your homes, putting clothes on the
shivering ill-clad, being available to your own families.
Do this and the lights will turn on, and your lives will
turn around at once…Then when you pray, God will
answer. You'll call out for help and l'Il say, 'Here I am!..
If you are generous with the hungry and start giving
yourselves to the down-and-out, your lives will begin
to glow in the darkness...I will always show you where
to go. I'll give you a full life" (vv. 7-11 MSG). So instead
of focusing on your own needs, focus on the needs of
others. That's a key to answered prayer.

Focus on the needs of others.

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