1 Peter 3:7-12 “Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered. … (12) For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are open to their prayers; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
In the scripture quoted above, the Holy Spirit tells us that our Father’s ears are always open to the prayers of the righteous. However, one who has not been cleansed from all unrighteousness will no longer have their prayers of the understanding heard, because our Father’s ears are only open to those who are righteous. Someone said, but I thought that we are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, and so we always have direct access to the Father in prayer. That statement is true in the spirit, for it is our spirits that have been made the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. But that statement is not true, in the realm of our understanding, for in the realm of our understanding we are required to walk in the righteousness provided to us, in our spirits. If we choose with our understanding, not to walk in that righteousness but rather to walk in unrighteousness, then we no longer have direct access to the Father, with the prayers of our understanding.
Michael E.B. Maher
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