BIBLE GEM
"Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts." James 4:3
QUESTION
How may we know when our prayers are self centered?
ANSWER
Prayers from proud and selfish hearts: :Your pride threatens to be your ruin. . . . Your prayers . . . . come from hearts filled with pride and selfishness." ---Testimonies, vol. 2, page 176.
"God cannot approve of the least degree of covetousness or selfishness, and He abhors the prayers and exhortations of those who indulge these evil traits. As Satan see that his time is short, he leads men on to be more and more selfish and covetous, and then exults as he see them wrapped up in themselves, close, penurious, and selfish."---_Early Writings, page 286
