GOD ALSO PRAYS TO AVOID SUPER TYPHOONS AND CLIMATE CHANGE TRAGEDIES: DO YOU LISTEN TO GOD'S PRAYERS? IF NOT, THEN WHY DO YOU EXPECT GOD TO LISTEN TO YOUR PRAYERS?

WILL GOD LISTEN TO YOUR PRAYERS? Victims of flash floods, super typhoons, earthquakes, and other natural calamities usually cry and ask for help from human sources. They also prayed to GOD for deliverance. But GOD said that although the victims prayed to Him, and those that are not victims prayed for them, He will not listen to their prayers! WHY? 

By: LOPE COLUMNA

Kabbalist Executive Director

COLUMNA MESSIANIC RESEARCH

When your dread cometh as a storm, and your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; when trouble and distress come upon you. Then will they call me, but I will not answer, they will seek me earnestly, but they shall not find me. (Pro 1:27-28 JPS)

GOD ALSO PRAYS. DO YOU LISTEN TO GOD'S PRAYERS? IF NOT, THEN WHY DO YOU EXPECT GOD TO LISTEN TO YOUR PRAYERS?

And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I PRAY YOU, betwixt me and my vineyard.  (Isa 5:3 KJV)

What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?  (Isa 5:4 KJV)

When we pray, we expect God to listen to our particular prayer. Do you know that God also prays to us, even individually? When God prays to us, He also expects that we listen to His prayers. Do we listen to Him?

God will only listen to prayers of those people who will listen also to Him! How can you expect God to listen to your prayers, when you yourself will NOT listen to Him in return?

If God will hear your prayer and save you from a sure-death calamity, will you change your life’s direction toward God, or you will just continue doing your former selfish way of life, which God hates?

Why would God give you another chance to live when He sees that you will just go on with the same selfish and ungodly way of life that brought the very tragedy that you are in now? We cannot fool God! We can fool only ourselves and other people!

And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:  (Isa 5:5 KJV)

And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.  (Isa 5:6 KJV)

If this humanistic attitude will continue, God will continue to increase the severity of calamities, such that human rescuers themselves will need help and rescue! And the donors themselves will need donations and food, not to give to the victims, but for them to survive!

Understand this, you who forget God, or I will tear you apart, and there will be no rescuer. (Psa 50:22)

DON’T JUST "START AGAIN," YOU MUST "START ANEW!"

If you are saved from the recent calamities, then don’t just "start again." You must "START ANEW"-- this time toward really changing your usual way of life; correcting your mistakes and avoiding wrong habits. And more important, to know know, obey, and serve the only true God that gives you another chance to correct your life. Have a "religious check" of your present religion, beliefs and traditions. Otherwise, you will not be spared the next time around.

KNOW THE PURPOSE OF CLIMATE CHANGE (Super Typhoons, Flash Floods, Drought,etc.)

Climate Change and other natural calamities are permitted and caused by God for the very purpose that man should come to repentance and acknowledgment of Him, as the source of everything -- good and evil. This means that each one of us should return to God, seek Him, and change our way of thinking and living. If these are not achieved, Climate Change tragedies will never stop, but instead they will increase in frequency of occurrence and intensity!

LISTEN TO GOD AND LIVE! 

Who is the man wise enough to understand this? Who has the LORD spoken to, that he may explain it? Why is the land destroyed and scorched like a wilderness, so no one can pass through? (Jer 9:12)

Why was no one there when I came? Why was there no one to answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem? Or do I have no power to deliver? Look, I dry up the sea by My rebuke; I turn the rivers into a wilderness; their fish rot because of lack of water and die of thirst. (Isa 50:2)

The LORD said, "It is because they abandoned My law I set in front of them and did not obey My voice or walk according to it. (Jer 9:13)

Instead, they followed the stubbornness of their hearts and the Baals, as their fathers taught them. (Jer 9:14)

Therefore, this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: "I am about to feed this people wormwood and give them poisonous waters to drink. (Jer 9:15)

When terror strikes you like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when trouble and stress overcome you.  (Pro 1:27)

Then they will call me, but I won't answer; they will search for me, but won't find me.  (Pro 1:28)

Because they hated knowledge, didn't choose to fear the LORD, were not interested in my counsel, and rejected all my correction, they will eat the fruit of their way and be glutted with their own schemes.  (Pro 1:29-31) 

For the waywardness of the inexperienced will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.  (Pro 1:32)

THE ONLY WAY OF ESCAPE TO  CLIMATE CHANGE TRAGEDIES = LISTEN TO GOD!

But whoever listens to me will live securely and be free from the fear of danger.  (Pro 1:33) 

So now, correct your ways and deeds and obey the voice of the LORD your God so that He might relent concerning the disaster that He warned about.  (Jer 26:13)

You who are far off, hear what I have done; you who are near, know My strength. (Isa 33:13)


NOTE: Bible verses used in this article is based on the Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB). If not, the quoted translation is mentioned. 

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