Were Some Prayers Meant For God's Ears Alone?

Hannah in this occasion poured out her heart to God in prayer after she had endured much ridicule and provocation from her rival for being barren:

1 Samuel 1:10-11 (KJV)

And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore.
And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.

But this was what Eli, the priest made of her prayer:

1 Samuel 1:12-14 (KJV)

And it came to pass, as she continued praying before the LORD, that Eli marked her mouth.
Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.
And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.

So because Hannah was praying in her heart to God, and her voice was silent, Eli who didn't understand her pain and what she was going through, just because he couldn't hear what she was saying while pouring out her heart to God, hastily assumed she was drunk and started immediately rebuking her for that.

However, this was what God made of Hannah's prayer which Eli didn't hear or understand.

1 Samuel 1:19-20 (KJV)

And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the LORD, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her.
Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.

So despite the fact that no one else, including Eli the priest, could hear or understand what Hannah was saying while she prayed to God because she prayed silently from her heart, God heard Hannah's prayer and consequently granted her request.

This proves that God doesn't need any man, including a priest, to hear or understand what you're saying when you pray to answer your prayer.

God bless.

On another occasion, it was the woman who had an issue of blood for twelve years, and had suffered many things of many physicians but all to no avail.

Mark 5:25-26 (KJV)

And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years,
And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse.

However when the woman heard of Jesus, she came and joined the crowd from behind Him with a plan to get her healing from Jesus silently, not by shouting and letting everyone in the crowd know that she's had an issue of blood for twelve years so that Jesus could heal her.

Matthew 9:20-21 (KJV)

And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:
For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.

So it was a silent prayer of faith she made within herself which no one else heard prior to that, but this was what God made of her prayer:

Mark 5:29 (KJV)

And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.

So God answered her prayer despite the fact that no one else heard what she said before that.

God bless

This time it was a sinner who came to Jesus because she was convicted of her sins and compelled to come to repentence. However when she came to Him she couldn't even utter a single word but kept weeping and crying out her heart to God in repentance.

Luke 7:37-38 (KJV)

And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment,
And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.

But no one else could hear or understand what she was saying to God, instead they were more interested in the high cost of the ointment she had anointed Jesus with, and also condemning her because of her past life of sin which she was repenting of in her prayer to God.

Luke 7:39 (KJV)

Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she is a sinner.

Mark 14:4-5 (KJV)

And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?
For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.

But this was what Jesus (who her prayer was directed to) said to woman:

"Thy sins are forgiven. Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace." Luke 7:48, 50

This proves that a sinner's prayer of repentance to God doesn't need to be confessed or uttered with the person's mouth to be heard and approved by God.

God bless.

Therefore you can clearly see that the widely held belief among Christians, that it's with the mouth that confession is made unto salvation didn't come from God but men.

It's men that want to hear what a sinner is saying with their mouth because they are flesh, but God is not flesh like men but Spirit, so God can also hear what man cannot hear, even the silent voice of a man's heart.

Therefore if you're a sinner, you don't need to make any confession with your mouth before God grants you salvation.

All you need is to sincerely repent in your heart when you come before God as that woman with the alabaster box did, and you may not even be able to utter single word out of remorse, but just be crying out your heart to Him in tears, and heaven would already be rejoicing that a sinner has truly come to repentence.

God bless.

So all this idea of making you recite some lines as "Lord Jesus come into my heart, I believe you died and rose" bla, bla, bla, as a sinner's prayer is misinformed and did not come from God, that's why it's usually fake and easily manipulated, hence hardly causes any rejoicing in heaven.

The worst part is when some preachers out of desperation, go to the extent of forcing people to recite those arranged words, thinking that just by reciting them, they can automatically become saved even though it's without their consent, to show how much they've been misled by that erroneous teaching.

I cannot count how many times I had done that confession thing with my mouth, while I was a sinner and yet continued afterwards as a sinner because it didn't come from my heart.

But on the day I truly became saved, I didn't recite anything, I can't even remember what words I said exactly, but it was very soft so no one around me or in the building heard or knew what I said on that day because I didn't also come out for alter call.

It was just between me and God, however was sincere and came from my heart, but guess what, this is several decades later, but what happened on that day is not just causing rejoicing in heaven but is still causing havoc in the kingdom of darkness up til this very day, because of the many souls yet coming to repentance via my ministry as a result of what happened on that day.

That personal experience and what I also learnt from Jesus' approach to calling sinners to repentance, informs why I never tell sinners who want to come to repentance to recite anything after me as prayer of repentance to God.

I always tell them to say to God whatever was in their heart because i believe a true sinner's prayer ought to be unique to the person and God, hence ought to done spontaneously from their heart as that of the woman with the alabaster box.

So while the sinner's prayer for the woman with the alabaster box would be whatever she said to God through her tears and silent prayer from heart, that of another could be, "Lord be merciful to me a sinner". Luke 7:38, 18:13.

Another could be, "Lord remember me when you come in your kingdom" and so on. Luke 23:42

I believe that spontaneity, one on One, heart to Heart conversation, at the beginning of their journey with God is crucial, because that sets the tone for the rest of their spiritual journey and how it develops.

Not something calculated and recited casually out of an already prepared script, which often results in the lack of deep emotion or spirit associated with true repentance even when it sincerely comes from the heart.

The fact also that Jesus, the greatest soul winner ever, never did that even once (ask repentant sinners to recite anything) during His ministry on Earth, despite bringing the most sinners to salvation during that short period, alone should tell us something.

If we really wanted to replicate His unprecedented result in soul-winning, the best way to achieve that is to follow His example and teachings.

God bless.

For those though who are still adamant that a sinner needs to confess with their mouths unto salvation just because Paul said so, they should tell us how the dumb or mouthless were supposed to come to salvation if so.

They wouldn't be able to do so because that's man for you and why man can never be God, because man sees and thinks on the outward appearance but God doesn't see as man sees nor does He think as man thinks, hence can never make His salvation available to the whole world yet inassessible to a set of people just because they have one disability or another.

Hence why God instead uses what comes out of the heart of a man to determine his salvation instead of what comes out of his mouth, because every man has a heart but not every man has a mouth, so it means every sinful man alive can still be saved even if they don't have mouths to make confession unto salvation.

For as long as the heart of a sinful man is still beating it means he is still alive and consequently can still be saved.

It's only when his heart stops beating that confirms he's dead hence can no longer come to salvation.

God bless.

I also believe a sinner's prayer of repentance wasn't meant for the ears of anyone else but God's alone.

However not just a sinner's prayer, because there were prayers that even the righteous pray that they may not want others to hear but God.

Jesus was often said to have withdrawn Himself from the crowd into a solitary place to pray alone. Matthew 14:23, Mark 1:35.

The few occasions He didn't go alone, He would not even go with all His disciples, but just three of the chosen twelve. Matthew 17:1, Mark 5:37, Mark 9:2.

I believe He did that because there were hardly men around who could understand or agree with Him at the level of His prayers, hence it was better and more profitable for Him to pray alone.

Even He had brought up His disciples to a certain level that they could provide a bit of support and agreement in prayer, that encouraged Him to take 3 of them with Him to the place He prayed, they still fell asleep throughout. But thank God He was already used to praying alone and hence didn't have to rely on them otherwise He would have been left hanging which wouldn't have been funny at all.

So it's not wise to be totally reliant on collective prayers or prayer partners but to also imbibe that Christlike habit of praying alone to God as Christ also taught us to do.

Matthew 6:6 (KJV)

But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

God bless.

Being an ardent student and follower of Christ and His teachings instead of the Bible as it is with most Christians today, my prayer style and composition follows the example and teachings of Christ, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that i prefer praying alone.

When I had to pray with other Christians, i realized I don't usually feel satisfied and much power for obvious reasons until I had prayed alone.

Moreover the orientation of most Christians these days make it even harder, as they hardly have the mentality of Christ or follow His teachings or example.

Imagine someone that prays selflessly, as in, "not my will but Yours be done",and for my enemies forgiveness as Christ did Himself and taught us, I don't know how many Christians today who are used to praying self-centred prayers and for their enemies to "die, die, die", would say amen to such prayers.

Hence my prayer style and composition is usually foreign and sounds strange to other Christians whenever I am leading a prayer or praying with them.

I can remember how after praying with someone here, she expressed her reservations about my asking severally for mercy for such ones, and I told her that it was what Christ commanded us to do.

He said, "blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy".

She would have loved if I asked her to pray for all her enemies to fall and die by fire, as many Christians enjoy doing despite such a prayer being antichrist, even though such is now the norm in churches these days.

That's why i feel much much better praying alone, because I follow Christ's example and teachings and there are not many Christians around that also do that.

I would prefer though to have like-minded prayer partners, because when I consider the amount of Power and Spirit that is generated when I'm praying alone, I could only imagine what it would be like, if there were two or more of my kind joining forces together in prayer.

Hell surely wouldn't be praying for that to happen.

God bless.

Thank you Jesus.

Hannah prayed in unspeakable Utterance and was answered. No human prayed for her but God answered

Awesome God.

Work hard to make your heart desires come to pass. praying is a futile attempt. there's been no single study that points to prayer being useful. Templeton Foundation (a religious group) ran a study and found out prayers are useless

You would have the same success praying to a milk jug as you do praying to god -- the milk jug sometimes answers your prayer the way you want to, sometimes not and sometimes the answer is delayed. See the problem here? If things turn out the way you want them to, you say it was because you prayed. If not, it's because god knows what's best and you didn't pray for the right thing. Or, if it happens 10 years later you say god answered your prayer, it was just delayed. This is nonsense. You would have the exact same effect doing nothing.

Ur sermon is too long.....

Who get time to dey read long epistles

Most if not all

jesusjnr2020:
Therefore you can clearly see that the widely held belief among Christians, that it's with the mouth that confession is made unto salvation didn't come from God but men.

It's men that want to hear what a sinner is saying with their mouth because they are flesh, but God is not flesh like men but Spirit, so God can also hear what man cannot hear, even the silent voice of a man's heart.

Therefore if you're a sinner, you don't need to make any confession with your mouth before God grants you salvation.

[b]All you need is to sincerely repent in your heart when you come before God

God bless.

Roman 10 vs 10.
This is the word of God!

Starhearts:
Ur sermon is too long.....

Who get time to dey read long epistles

Nor mind the Religious Nigga...

Long Sermon...

All in an attempt to prove a worthless point...

All my prayers are meant only for God ear

All

No showing off

There's no proof of God's existence. But if God truly exists then he's clueless.

Keep deceiving yourself 🤣

hopefulLandlord:
Work hard to make your heart desires come to pass. praying is a futile attempt. there's been no single study that points to prayer being useful. Templeton Foundation (a religious group) ran a study and found out prayers are useless

You would have the same success praying to a milk jug as you do praying to god -- the milk jug sometimes answers your prayer the way you want to, sometimes not and sometimes the answer is delayed. See the problem here? If things turn out the way you want them to, you say it was because you prayed. If not, it's because god knows what's best and you didn't pray for the right thing. Or, if it happens 10 years later you say god answered your prayer, it was just delayed. This is nonsense. You would have the exact same effect doing nothing.

We don hear😏. Believe anything you want and leave people to believe they want. With all your grand standing, you are just as clueless about life like everyone else. If you don't believe in prayers, keep it to yourself and allow those that believe in prayers do their thing.

If Kobojunkie never reach here na im be say discussion for this thread never start.

Yes

Because humans won't understand....
As I deh so... Na only God fit understand werin dey happen to me...
If I tell any human being, him go think say na normal thing so na only God I fit tell and na ONLY Him fit understand

sonnie10:


Roman 10 vs 10.
This is the word of God!

It means your god doesn't hear the sinner's prayer of the deaf and dumb.

sonnie10:

Is there any deaf or dumb that does not make some sort of audible sound when they communicate (pray) ?
Or are you just worried that God would be unable to interpret/ understand them?

Remember we are talking about the same God that made a even a donkey to talk, on the way to Jehrico

You should know that people who literally have no mouths exist, but you don't because you're man and not God, so thank God it's not up to you or Paul who wrote that saying, otherwise those without mouths to make confessions with unto salvation would have no chance.

This is not about God who can also hear the prayers of the dumb and mouthless, but man who can't but assume such things in the stead of God, from his human limitations and standpoint as though God was as limited as they were to only hear sounds the mouth makes.

jesusjnr2020:
It means your god doesn't hear the sinner's prayer of the deaf and dumb.

Is there any deaf or dumb that does not make some sort of audible sound when they communicate (pray) ?
Or are you just worried that God would be unable to interpret/ understand them?

Remember we are talking about the same God that made a even a donkey to talk, on the way to Jehrico

hopefulLandlord:
Work hard to make your heart desires come to pass. praying is a futile attempt. there's been no single study that points to prayer being useful. Templeton Foundation (a religious group) ran a study and found out prayers are useless

You would have the same success praying to a milk jug as you do praying to god -- the milk jug sometimes answers your prayer the way you want to, sometimes not and sometimes the answer is delayed. See the problem here? If things turn out the way you want them to, you say it was because you prayed. If not, it's because god knows what's best and you didn't pray for the right thing. Or, if it happens 10 years later you say god answered your prayer, it was just delayed. This is nonsense. You would have the exact same effect doing nothing.

SMH for you

Righteous Prayers are all meant for God's Ears alone.

Most of those prayers god will hear and pretend he didn't hear, he mostly do absolutely nothing about it

And when things finally goes fully bad and haywire the 'prayer warrior' will be blamed for not praying hard enough

Righteous Prayers are all meant for God's Ears alone.


Orisa37
"STAND IN AWE WHEN YOU PRAY". PSALM 4: 4-5