The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Isaiah 59:1-4, “Behold, the LORD’s hand is not so short That it cannot save;

Neither is His ear so dull That it cannot hear. 2 But your iniquities have made

a separation between you and your God, And your sins have hidden His face

from you, so that He does not hear.

3 For your hands are defiled with blood, And your fingers with iniquity;

Your lips have spoken falsehood, Your tongue mutters wickedness.

4 No one sues righteously and no one pleads honestly. They trust in confusion,

and speak lies; They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.”

Have you ever prayed and prayed and prayed, but nothing happened?

It was as if God either could not or would not hear. The Scriptures give

many reasons for unanswered prayer. God is sometimes saying, “No”

because what we’re asking is not as beneficial to us as we want to believe.

Sometimes, He says, “Yes, but not yet. Wait; the time is not right.” And

at other times, He says He cannot hear us because of our sin. But, He

doesn’t leave it there. He spells out how we have sinned: hands, fingers,

lips, tongue –all have worked in wickedness, and wickedness always

separates us from God.

It would be wrong for us to ignore our own sin and look only to that of

others; still, verse four speaks of using the courts for wrong reasons,

intending to crush opponents instead of seeking justice. That just may

be what is going on now within the Mueller investigation. If that is

true, then that would speak to the LORD’s silence in answering prayers

related to our nation. This is all very serious stuff! We have to be clean

before God for Him to hear and answer our prayers. That would make

justice in the Mueller investigation dependent upon US! Think about

that! We’re not as far removed from what is happening as we think.

The same is true of understanding Scripture, effective witnessing to

the lost, and a multitude of things. The LORD’s people must be clean!

We pray to be cleansed, as we pray for you each day,

Nana & Dado III

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.

Springdale, Arkansas

“We never know that God is all we need

until He becomes all that we have.”