Pray Not For This People

I pray for everyone – friend and enemy, alike.  Then I read in Jeremiah 7:16, in the Old Testament of the Holy Bible, where Yahweh says not to pray for certain people.  He says He won’t hear!  What Yahweh does ask us to do for our ‘enemy’ is to feed and clothe them (Romans 12:20).  In this we are heaping “burning coals upon their head”.  Perhaps, then, one would be doing their enemies a favor through these actions… a favor that prayer just won’t do.  1 Corinthians 5:5 actually says "deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of Lord Christ Jesus."

Who would Yahweh tell us not to pray for?  Those who need to amend their ways of (from Jeremiah 7):
• Trusting in lying words (vs 4)
• Misrepresenting Yahweh’s ‘Temple’, as if it is the importance of any matter (vs 4)
• Injustice (vs 5)
• Oppression of the disenfranchised (vs 6)
• Murder of the innocent
• Following delusion (vs 6)
• Again, trusting in lying words - Yahweh really does not like this because he knows there is no profit in them (vs 8)
• Committing theft (vs 9)
• Committing murder (vs 9)
• Committing adultery (vs 9)
• Committing perjury (False Testimony) (vs 9)
• Trusting in gods that are not real – such as money & statues (again, no profit, only futility) (vs 9)
• Turning churches into a marketplace – i.e. “den of thieves” (vs 11)
• Not responding to Yahweh’s attempts at communications (relationship) (vs 13)

We are not to pray for these practitioners!  Rather, Yahweh says that He looks away and does not even listen to the prayers of those who practice these things, and do not think to amend their ways.  (vs 15 & 16)  Instead, He asks us to see (recognize) what these, who practice such things, are doing in plain sight (in the streets).  Yahweh wants us to see and acknowledge these behaviors. (vs 17)  Yahweh laments people unable to receive instruction (unwilling to evolve and learn) - and those who are dead to Truth,  in deed and word. (vs 28).