Life Capsule for Today Date: 16th April, 2025
Theme: Basic Elements of Effective Prayer (4)
Topic: Knowing God and his personality
Memory Verse: Matt 7:7-8
7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
Bible Reading: Gen 18:26
26 And the Lord said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes. KJV
Words of the Ministry
Today we would be considering yet another ingredient for effective praying, by looking at the famous prayer of Abraham which he made during one of his encounters with God. The prayer which was in form of a question was said on behalf of his nephew lot when God decided to visit the earth over the report of persistent evil from the Land of Sodom. Sodom was a fertile land, full of rich and green vegetation, it was a place to behold but the evil in that Land was so great that God considered destroying the land.It is worthy of note that we understand Abraham was interceding for someone he loved genuinely, his brother’s son, Abraham was looking out for him and his family. That prompted the questions, first off, Abraham asked if God would punish the righteous with the wicked and secondly he asked if the Judge of the whole earth do evil, destroying the righteousness and the wicked.
Abraham must have learnt how God withheld judgement until Noah and his family were safe in the ark (Gen 7). He also learnt how the God of the whole earth judged with the flood in times past, knowing full well that God is Holy and cannot behold iniquity, on the strength of this he asked God if he would destroy the land if 50 righteous souls were found, God said no, the number reduced to 10 and at that point Abraham withdrew, not going further, because he knew God. The righteous Judge of the earth can’t permit such a place to exist just as he didn’t during the time of Noah when only eight persons were righteous. Some would say if only Abraham persisted, God would have spared the city, not at all, far from it, just as his righteousness wouldn’t make him destroy the righteous with the wicked so would his righteousness would not let him spare a city with less than ten souls. True to his word, God didn’t destroy Lot and his family as he led them out before raining judgment on Sodom, in fact he spared another nearby city for Lot’s sake.
Saints we need to learn from this, many of us would have requested that God should have mercy on Sodom or not even judge Sodom at all. Such prayers would have been ineffective because it contradicts the personality of God, the word said hand joined to hand no sinner would go unpunished. To be effective in prayers, we need to know God and what he can’t do, we must not be like the heathen thinking they would be heard from their much speaking. God cannot be muzzled, we are the ones that must learn his ways, this we can do by meditating on his word, renewing our mind and allowing the Holy Spirit have his way.
Please keep in mind our monthly Peniel Encounter scheduled for the 27th of April by 4pm.
Bible in One Year: 2 Sam 15-16
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