pray is a family privilege...

have you ever thought about how you would respond if someone with whom you don't have a relationship would knock on your door and ask for things that only someone who is in your family would have the right to ask for but they would expect you to give it to them? how would you respond?

but isn't that they way it is when people who don't have a relationship with GOD expect HIM to give them everything they ask HIM for in prayer? prayer is the privilege of those in the family.

there is one prayer, though, HE responds to of someone who isn't in HIS family and that is the prayer of the tax collector in luke 18.13 (ms), GOD, give mercy. forgive me, a sinner.

just a thought from the front porch...