Sometimes, the very thing you’re praying so hard for… is the very thing God wants to put to death.

James 4:3 says:

“You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.”

These “passions” aren’t harmless dreams. They’re carnal cravings.

• You desire and do not have—so you murder.

• You covet and cannot obtain—so you fight and quarrel.

That’s the fruit.

Not joy.

Not peace.

Not righteousness.

Murder.

Conflict.

Division.

All because of desires rooted in worldliness.

Let’s break this down even further:

You ask and do not receive, not because you didn’t ask—but because you asked with the wrong heart. You asked to feed the very thing God is trying to crucify.

You prayed, “God, give me this desire,” but that desire is the seed of spiritual death.

When you pray worldly prayers, you’re not asking God for a breakthrough—you’re asking Him to bless your rebellion.

You’re saying, “God, make me Your enemy.”

Yes, it’s that serious.

And the devil? — he’s right there. Ready to hand you the very thing God refused to give you. Not because it’s a gift—but because it’s a snare. He wants you to disqualify yourself. He wants to bait you into becoming God’s enemy by praying with a worldly heart. He knows God won’t go against His Word. That’s why Satan wants your agreement with worldliness—it gives him the legal right to ensnare you.

God’s not withholding something good. He’s withholding poison.

He knows that if He gives you what you’re begging for, it will break you, corrupt you, and kill you.

That’s why we must pray to agree with God’s will, not manipulate Him to agree with ours.

Prayer is not a place to promote your passion. It’s the place to crucify it. You don’t enter God’s courts with carnality. Worldliness cannot fellowship with holiness.

Sometimes the unanswered prayer is mercy. Sometimes, God’s “no” is Him saying: “I love you too much to give you what would destroy you.”

Let it die.

That relationship.

That opportunity.

That obsession.

That image.

That platform.

That desire.

If it makes you an enemy of God, then it’s not a blessing—it’s a battlefield for rebellion.

Choose surrender.

Choose holiness.

Choose to agree with Heaven.

When you stop asking God to bless your will, and start asking Him to kill what’s worldly in you, that’s when real revival begins.

And revival is always personal before it is global!

Meditate on this post with this song: https://youtu.be/0AL5vmUWXhE?feature=shared