Dissolve Partnership with Known Sin
By David Paulson
HAVE you felt grieved because your prayers were not answered? Remember that victory over every known sin is the Bible foundation for answered prayer. "And whatsoever we ask, we receive of Him, because we keep His commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in His sight." 1 John 3:22. Are you sometimes anxious to get personal glory out of glorifying God? If so, that also will block answers to your prayers; for it is not a question of self-pleasing or self-exaltation, but, Will God be glorified by our prayer if it is answered? "And whatsoever ye shall ask in My name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son." John 14:13. We can best glorify God with the ability that He is willing to add to our natural ability. "If any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth ["If any one renders a service to others, let it be in the strength which God supplies." — Modern speech]: that God in all things may be glorified." 1 Peter 4:11.