Selfish Prayers Unanswered!

By Mark Adams
Type: Story
Subject: Prayer

Selfish Prayers Unanswered:

James 4:3 "When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures."

From a sermon by Dr. Mark Adams:

In 1727 John Ward, a member of the British Parliament died and among his papers they found a prayer he had written. It went like this:

"O Lord, Thou knowest that I have mine estates in the City of London, and likewise that I have lately purchased an estate in the county of Essex. I beseech Thee to preserve the two counties of Middlesex and Essex from fire and earthquake; and, as I have a mortgage in Hertfdodshire, I beg of Thee likewise to have an eye of compassion on that county. As for the rest of the counties, Thou mayest deal with them as Thou art pleased."

Is that a self-centered prayer or what?!