19 Bible Verses about Not Praying
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Then the LORD told Moses, "Why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelis to move out!
"As for you, don't pray on behalf of this people, don't cry or offer a petition for them, and don't plead with me, for I won't listen to you.
"Jeremiah, don't pray for this people and don't cry or pray for them. I won't listen when they cry out to me because of their disaster.
Then the LORD told me, "Don't pray for the welfare of these people.
All of the royal administrators, prefects, regional authorities, scribes, and governors have concluded that the king should establish and enforce an edict that anyone who prays to any god or man for the next 30 days (except to you, your majesty) is to be thrown into the lions' pit.
So they approached the king and asked, "Didn't you sign an edict that for the next 30 days if anyone prays to any god or man, except to you, your majesty, he would be thrown into the lions' pit?" The king responded, "The decree has been established, in accordance with the laws of the Medes and Persians that can't be repealed."
Saul replied, "When? I saw that the people were scattering from me, that you didn't come at the appointed time, and that the Philistines were assembling at Michmash. I thought, "The Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal but I've not sought the favor of the LORD,' so I forced myself to offer the burnt offering."
"And yet you didn't call upon me, Jacob; indeed, you are tired of me, Israel!
"I let myself be sought by those who didn't ask for me; I let myself be found by those who didn't seek me. I said, "Here I am! Here I am!' to a nation that didn't call on my name.
Will those who do evil ever learn? They devour my people like they devour bread, and never call on the LORD.
Will those who do evil ever learn? They devour my people like they devour bread, and never call on God.
There is no one who calls on your name or rouses himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have given us into the control of our iniquity.
They all burn like an oven; they have consumed their judges; all their kings have fallen not even one of them calls on me.
Pour out your wrath upon the nations that do not acknowledge you, and over the kingdoms that do not call on your name.
Pour out your anger on the nations that don't acknowledge you, and on the families that don't call on your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured and consumed him; they have devastated his habitation.
They will not cry to me from their heart instead, they wail on their beds. They gather together to eat and drink, turning away from me.
So far you haven't asked for anything in my name. Keep asking and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete."
I'm not asking you to take them out of the world but to protect them from the evil one.
