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Firstfruit Fundamentals
 

Subject: Prayer

Question 1

If you are a firstfruit, you have God’s Holy Spirit.  That Spirit binds us to God and makes us His chief focus, especially at moments we make direct contact with Him.  For a firstfruit, the question is rarely about whether God is listening.  The question is, are you talking to Him?  God is always listening.  Notice.

John 9:31 
Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.

Psalm 34:15 
The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.

Proverbs 15:29 
The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.

1 Peter 3:12 
For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.

Proverbs 15:8 
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

This is overwhelming proof that God is listening to the righteous.  Who are the righteous?  Firstfruits in the Salvation Process and with the Holy Spirit in them. 

Now someone is probably looking at John 9:31 and the statement, “Now we know that God heareth not sinners” and thinking they qualify as a sinner because they might have sinned in the last thirty days.  The sinner of John 9:31 is a unrepentant sinner and one well down the process of sin.  Firstfruits, by definition, repent and are repentant.  Therefore, they could never be labeled sinners.

Consult most any Bible commentary on John 9:31 on the meaning of sinners and you get, “heathen” or individuals outside of the Salvation Process.

Bottom-line?  God is hearing your prayers.
 

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