A pastor argues that prayer alone won't bring success without wisdom and good character, comparing it to multiplying one million by zero. God demands right conduct, not shortcuts through spiritual leaders or divine intervention. A way may seem right but lead to destruction.
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I will just sit down there and say, not be me. That doesn't mean prayer doesn't work, but if their prayer check your life and doesn't see wisdom on ground, 1 million times zero is zero. Because a pastor's ego can be massaged, and people don't know the right thing and believe that, oh, once I can just touch him, now that's it, everywhere I go I'll be accepted. Is your character good? That's the basis. The God who watched his only begotten son die because that was the requirement. Will that God waive you doing what is right and say automatically, as far as life is concerned, I am the Lord, I veto it, you will succeed, there's nothing you do that will not make you succeed? If you heard that kind of statement, I put it to you, you didn't hear God. You know, the statement that makes us believe that anywhere I turn, God will just show up for me, even if I turn here, you'll make a way there— it's not true. There are routes you must never go. The Bible says that there is a way that seems right unto man, but the end of it is what? Death and destruction. He knows as the only way