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Elisabeth Elliot: Why God says "no."

1) For the sake of others. If Jesus' prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane had been answered with a yes where would we be? Jesus prayed that God would deliver Him. He said, "If it is possible, let this cup pass from me." But then His next prayer was, "If it is not possible; nevertheless, Thy will be done." And if He hadn't said that, we would have all gone to hell, wouldn't we? Because it was His "Yes, Father" that took Him to the cross so it is for the sake of others that God says no. It was for the sake of all of us that that loving father said to his adored son, "No."

2) For God's glory among His people. Numbers 20:12 tells us that Moses could not enter the land of Canaan; Deuteronomy 3 also. But it was because of Moses' disobedience that God's glory was stained, and so he had to be punished. So God said no to his desperate plea to be allowed to go into the Promised Land.

And I think it's wonderful to realize that Moses didn't pout and sulk and say, "Well if this is the way God treats me, then so much for God. I don't need to do anything more for Him." He kept on being just as faithful a leader of those miserable people as he had been all along, even though God had told him very clearly that he would not enter the Promised Land.

3) God says no because He has something better for us. Luke 11:12: "What father would give his son a scorpion instead of an egg?" Now what the child thinks he ought to have may be in God's sight a scorpion. The thing that you may be hammering away on God's door about and wondering, why doesn't God answer my prayer? God has been answering your prayer. He's been saying "No, no, no, no."

"Well, but Lord are You ever going to give me this? I don't know how I can live without it, Lord, please!" And you think it's the most wonderful thing in the world, but your Heavenly Father knows what things you have need of. And it just might be that the thing you think is going to make your life wonderful is, in God's sight, a scorpion or a snake. God is going to give you whatever the thing is that He knows will be best for us. And it may look like a scorpion but turn out to be an egg.

4) God says no because we are harboring sin. Psalm 66:18.

5) God says no because we are not asking in His name. In James 4 it's clear that we have to ask in faith believing that God is going to give us the right thing at the right time. We might be praying something which is for our glory when it's got nothing to do with God's glory.

James 4:1-4: "What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you? You want something, but you don't get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive because you ask with wrong motives that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. You adulterous people! Don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred towards God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God."

Our consciences need to be ransacked, don't they, in order to see whether our praying is in tune with the will of God? And of course, God knows when we don't know. We may be asking in all honesty and all earnestness for something which God knows we don't realize isn't good for us, but in His time His own answer will come.

6) For reasons of His own which we need not know. I had the chance to sit on a sofa with Gladys Aylward and discuss what missionary life is like when you're single. And I was single most of my missionary life. I've been single most of my life, period. But she had never been married. And so she told me how when she saw an English couple come out and realized that here was this wonderful thing called marriage that she'd really never given any thought to. And she thought, How lovely! Wouldn't it be nice for God to give me a husband? And so she prayed that God would call a man from England, send him straight out there to China and have him propose. And she was a no-nonsense kind of a woman. And she said, "Elisabeth, I believe God answers prayer! He called him, but he never came."

Now was that because God didn't like Gladys Aylward? No. She thought marriage would be wonderful, and I'm sure there are a whole lot of you here in this room today that are saying exactly the same thing. "Why doesn't God want to give me a husband?" For reasons of His own which we need not know--that's number 6. Deuteronomy 29:29 is your reference for that.

7) In order to lead us not into temptation. And some of our prayers would lead us straight into temptation. And so He commands us to pray. He's telling us what to tell Him to do for us. You know, it's a constant two-way thing, this whole thing of prayer. And so when He teaches His disciples to pray, "Lead us not into temptation," it's not as though God is dying to lead you into temptation. But He wants us to be serious about doing the will of God.

And here from a contemporary writer who shall be nameless--it's not I, so don't think you can guess, "Can our petitions alter the march of events, chance, or God? If He's running things, He seems capricious at times. To believe, He obliges us to relinquish our equations and enter the darkness in faith. There are impenetrable questions. We're asking God to do what would seem to cut across the unrolling of events. Always there are wars and rumors of wars. When we pray, will the hospital beds be empty because we pray?

Prayer is a mystery. In corporate prayer, the Body of Christ is drawn into the mystery of his priestly self-offering for the world." The Bible tells us that He made a perfect offering for sin. A perfect sacrifice. "All suffering and sin are taken up in that offering of Jesus Christ to His father."

I wish I had time to read you the whole thing--it's wonderful, but I don't. "Our place is at the altar of Calvary where the offering is made. We have not been invited to the bench where judgment is given." I'll read that again. "Our place is at the altar of Calvary where His offering was made. We have not been invited to the bench where judgment is given." So it is a daily discipline of prayer, thanksgiving, obedience and it's as simple as eating lunch or vacuuming a rug.


http://www.reviveourhearts.com/radio/today/22701

it's making that first priority, that first commitment that God is first in my day, that I seek Him, that I spend time with Him in His open Word, on my knees and in His presence, spending time alone with God. 

And then as we come together to public worship, asking God to cleanse our hands, to purify our hearts, to tune our hearts to sing His praise.  We come and we lift up Christ¡Xwe magnify Him, we exalt Him.  And in putting Him first, then, as you have pointed out, Ray, all those other things are going to fall into place.  But we've got to start with first things first.

If that's your heart, and I believe it is for many of you, would you just join me in this prayer, "Lord, I want my life to be a miracle, unexplainable apart from You.  And I'm saying right now afresh that I want to be committed to You as number one in my life. 

I want you to be the first priority and the overarching priority in my life.  And by Your grace I want to spend that time each day alone with You in Your Word and in prayer.  And I want to be woman of worship privately and corporately so that You can be pleased to fulfill all Your purposes in and around my life.  I pray in Jesus' name, Amen."


http://www.reviveourhearts.com/radio/today/24299

I just want to ask you if you are taking time to listen to the Lord.  Or is your life so cluttered, so filled with noise and activity that you can't really hear what God is saying.
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I heard that prayer and I said, "That's the prayer I want to pray, 'Lord, make my life a miracle.'"
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I don't want a life explainable by personality or maybe by being a hot shot or something but rather by God.  That takes miracle and revival time and time again.
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We're going to stop and just wait on the Lord.  I don't know what that means, but the Bible says over and over, 'Wait on the Lord'.  It must mean wait on the Lord."
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You know, those really were special times as we waited together on the Lord as a congregation.  And I'm so thankful that today in my Christian life, God is available, He is there, He is present and He is waiting for me to wait on Him now. 

We get so busy, so filled with activities and our lives filled with the things of this world, that many of us aren't taking the time to really listen to the Lord.  And that's the first step I believe of experiencing personal or corporate revival. 

In fact, I think of a verse in Psalm 85, the passage that Anne referenced a few moments ago, and another verse in that passage that says, "I will hear what God the LORD will speak.  For he will speak peace (shalom) to His people and to His saints" (v. 8). 

I just want to ask you if you are taking time to listen to the Lord? 

If your heart is hungry to experience personal revival, if you want to experience revival in your home and your church; if you want to see that take place in this nation and in our world, the starting place is getting still enough, quiet enough, long enough to listen to what God wants to say. 

Open the Word of God, get on your knees there alone, quiet in His presence and say, "Lord, I'm listening.  Please speak to me.  I want to hear.  And whatever You say, by Your grace, I will do."  And that may be, for you, the starting place of a fresh work of God's grace and revival in your life. 

http://www.reviveourhearts.com/radio/today/24294