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God always responds to the prayers of these people!

1 Peter 3:10 – 12 (TPT) says: “For the Scriptures tell us: Whoever wants to embrace true life and find beauty in each day must stop speaking evil, hurtful words and never deceive in what they say. Always turn from what is wrong and cultivate what is good; eagerly pursue peace in every relationship, making it your prize. For the eyes of the Lord Yahweh rest upon the godly, and his heart responds to their prayers. But he turns his back on those who practice evil.” The Holy Scriptures are our authoritative instruction manual for life. Any Christian who reads these verses can clearly see that we are instructed of the Lord to not speak evil of anyone. We are not to deceive. We are to turn from wrong and continually cultivate that which is good and beneficial. We are to eagerly pursue peace in EVERY relationship! God’s eyes are continually looking at what we do, and He is pleased when we walk in His precepts. But it also says that He turns His back to those who practice evil. I want to be on His side. I never want God to turn His back on me. Therefore, practicing evil is something to stay away from at all costs. When we walk with God, He responds to our prayers. Determine to reject the way of the evil doer, and walk with God today. That is where your blessings are!

1 Peter 3:10 – 12 (TPT) “For the Scriptures tell us: Whoever wants to embrace true life and find beauty in each day must stop speaking evil, hurtful words and never deceive in what they say. Always turn from what is wrong and cultivate what is good; eagerly pursue peace in every relationship, making it your prize. For the eyes of the Lord Yahweh rest upon the godly, and his heart responds to their prayers. But he turns his back on those who practice evil.”

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Is your heart good soil for God’s word?

In the parable of the sower, Jesus teaches that the seed is the word of God, and the good ground is the heart (Mark 4: 14, 15 Amplified version). Jesus taught that when the heart is receptive, it receives the word, and the seed will yield many times over. Here is the challenge: many Christians are not growing in their faith! What this means is that they have allowed conditions into their hearts that alter their hearts’ ability to receive. the parable of the sower actually describes four different kinds of soil. The first area allowed the enemy to remove the seed once it had been sown. The second didn’t allow a good root system to form, so the little plants would die quickly. The third seed was planted next to weeds, so the plant was choked and suffocated. The fourth seed was planted on good soil, so it yielded much fruit. If you are allowing conditions into your heart which cause doubt and fear, the enemy will steal the wisdom of the word from you. If you don’t ground yourself in God and His word, the infection of problems and challenges to your faith will destroy your faith. If you are always listening to those who only criticize, complain, doubt and fear, it will choke your faith, and you will become spiritually paralyzed and dull. This will kill your spiritual discernment, so you will become spiritually dead. Which soil does your heart represent? Make sure it is good soil, receptive to God and His Word. Allow His word to saturate, penetrate and take root in your heart. It will bear good fruit, thirty, sixty and one hundred fold!

Matthew 13:8 “Other seeds fell on good soil, and yielded grain—some a hundred times as much as was sown, some sixty times as much, and some thirty.”