I have been reading the book o Zechariah and I was meditating on the verses bellow:
"when the people[a] sent Sherezer,[b] with Regem-Melech and his men,to the house of God,[c] to pray before the Lord,3 and to ask the priests who were in the house of the Lord of hosts, and the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in the fifth month and fast as I have done for so many years?”
4 Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying, 5 “Say to all the people of the land, and to the priests: ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months during those seventy years, did you really fast for Me—for Me? 6 When you eat and when you drink, do you not eat and drink for yourselves?7 Should you not have obeyed the words which the Lord proclaimed through the former prophets when Jerusalem and the cities around it were inhabited and prosperous, and the South[d] and the Lowland were inhabited?’” Zechariah 7:2-7
God is saying to them, it would have been better that in these seventy years you had obeyed my commandments rather than fasting and weeping etc...
Prayer and Fasting are very important and strong but i believe there is no point in praying and fasting if we are not willing to act in obedience to God's word.
God said to Joshua:
"Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go. Joshua 1:7
Joshua did not need to pray to know the will of God.
He had already been given the direction, His will, faith.
What God expected from him was to do His will.
Joshua only needed to act out the will of God.
Nothing more.
This is what faith is!
It is putting into practice the will of God.
Taking possession of the Promised Land was not accomplished through prayer, but through the action of faith.
Joshua had to confront his enemies, risk his life and those of his soldiers, to overcome them and taken possession of that which God had already gotten tired of promising.
Even so, Joshua had to go out and fight to take possession of the promise.
Imagine if he had only prayed and waited on God…
He would have been easily beaten by his enemies;
And the fulfillment of the dream of God would never have been accomplished.
This is what has happened to the majority of Christians.
They wait for God to do what they need to do.
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