Jeremiah 42:20-21:  For you were hypocrites in your hearts, when you sent me unto the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and according unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it. And now I have this day declared it to you; but you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, nor any thing for which he has sent me unto you.

A righteous prayer is no substItute for a right choice!

The Jews were playing “the game”.

Sounding very committed in their prayers but when it came time to obey God they chose poorly.

Today, are you praying the right prayers and making the right choices at the same time.

Let us commit ourselves to connecting the choices we make throughout the day with the prayers we utter early in the morning, late at night and in our times of deepest need.

Let us pray hard and walk right!

II Timothy 1:3-4 “I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day; 4Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;”

Paul’s prayer for Timothy was not clinical but compassionate. He was mindful of the heartache that Timothy had to deal with.
That leads me to a question for all of us to ask ourselves: Have we forgotten the heartache of someone who needs our payers?
How many times do we tell someone “I will be praying for you” only to mention it once or twice and then the burden fades from our minds.
There are some heartache that never go away this side of heaven.
Today let us reexamine our prayer list and see if we need to add someone that we have forgotten!