Jeremiah TiptonFounder in president of David Hernandez ministries

How Entitled Christians Pray

23 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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In this segment of the YouTube sermon “How Entitled Christians Pray,” the speaker warns believers that many approach prayer with a sense of entitlement, trying to manipulate God to respond according to their emotions—sadness, frustration, anger—rather than based on faith in His Word. He argues that this entitlement leads to unmet expectations and a lack of results, likening it to the biblical figure Job, who demanded an audience with God to receive explanations he felt he deserved. The core claim is that emotions do not move God; only faith grounded in Scripture does, and believers must abandon attempts to control God’s response.

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You may be trying to manipulate God without even realizing that that's what you're doing. This is where we have to be careful of entitlement. And this is why many believers are just not seeing results, because they're trying to get God to respond based on how they're feeling, based on the fact that maybe they're really sad or really frustrated or really angry. And often we think that God has to respond to our emotions simply because we are entitled. And many believers live their whole lives thinking that God owes them a response. Like Job, they're demanding audience with God so that he can give them the explanation that they feel they deserve. That's an attempt to control God. Emotion doesn't move God. Faith does. And our faith is based on his word.