OSAS And Unanswered Prayer
Follow up
You listed four things that you believe can prevent believers from being delivered from their afflictions, putting a very fine point on the issue: lack of faith, unconfessed sins, Subconscious feelings that we deserve to be afflicted and a secret desire to remain where we are.
My questions are these:
1. If we have a subconscious feeling that we deserve to be afflicted, does God hold this against us? (if so, why?).
Your answer seems to imply this.
2. If we are held responsible for things of which we are not conscious, how do we recognize this and “repent” of it?
This is a very serious set of questions for me as I am very introspective, know I cannot fully understand what’s going on inside me, so it would seem that I am doomed to a life of (mostly) unanswered prayer.
A. Regarding people who pray for deliverance when they have a feeling that they
deserve their affliction, James put it this way:
But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.
That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does. (James 1:7-8)
If at some level we believe that we deserve our afflictions, in effect we’re saying that the Lord’s death was not sufficient for us. We have to suffer too in order to become worthy to be delivered. Isaiah 53:5 says that by His stripes we are healed, not by His stripes
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