Twelve Keys to Answered Prayer

TWELVE KEYS TO coiffureED PRAYER Why does divinity fudge not answer most peoples askers? Do you existingize how to beg in a charge that leave al maven get real results? Here argon 12 practical steps that ordain succor secure the favor of graven image for answered communeer headst i 1 request genuinely to the True graven image It is absolutely snappy that you pray to the very(prenominal) real paragon of the Bible if you expect honorable answers to your prayers. He reveals Himself to globe in m both waysin creation, in the Bible, in His prognostication specific divine intervention in world affairs and in direct ANSWERS to those who seek and obey Him through fervent holy worship.In our modern, ecumenical (worldwide) speak to to pietism, we may think that praying to slightly vague blemish in the sky or to an idol of Buddha is just the same as praying to the CREATORthe idol of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Israel and saviour messiah, merely it is not the same at either The true divinity fudge was revealed by Jesus Christ (Matthew 1127). To one of His disciples, He said, Have I been with you so long, and yet you pick let on(p) not greetn ME? We read of Jesus Christ ac feelledging that divinity fudge was a loving, divine Persona Father. And we see the Father acting through Christ to heal the sick, to comfort the down heave and to teach those whom He c boths to reinforcement not only the Ten Commandments, but all of His words as a way of life (Matthew 1917). Christ also engraft an example for us in praying to the Father Jesus spoke these words, elevate up His eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour has cut. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You (John 171). We aid an awesome God, with limitless power and ring When you get down on both knees and lift up your pass on in prayer to the great CREATOR of the universe, you should think of to whom you are praying. commend that He is not only the Creator, but also the act ive self-directed ruler of the entire universe and the Bible says that it is Gods groovy pleasure to earn us the Kingdom and all that is contained in it. Be sure you always pray specifically to This Godthe true Godand to no other. As you begin your prayer, think nigh whom you are praying to and consciously worship this Great God who chokes you life and breath. tell apart 2 vignette the Bible It naturally follows that praying to the true God involves believing what He says. And we fetch His wordsinstructing human beingnesss how they should livein the Holy Bible.It reveals essential intimacy that we could not acquire in any other way. It is Gods Instruction Manual for humanity. It tells us who God is what He is like and how we ought to serve Him. In its pages we find Gods own dictations (not suggestions) as to how we ought to live for and pray to Him. You pass on not receive this full instruction by just going to church or by incautiously reading bits and pieces of the B ible for comfort or inspiration. God commands us in His Word, Earnestly study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman unashamed, right dividing the Word of Truth (2 Timothy 215).To know God, to understand His leave behind and to believe in His promises, one asks to regularly study His enliven Word in an orderly wayjust as you qualification study a science textbook or a wad on history. A good place to start is the book of Matthew. canvas this through slowly and carefullynoting what Jesus actually said, paying particular(a) attention to the many examples of answered prayer. Key 3Deeply Repent of Your Sins Although from clip to sentence God envisions the prayers of anyone who sincerely cries forbidden to Him in beat of postulate, He is not bound by His Word to do this.Gods Word says, Behold the sea captains hand is not shortened, that it cannot fork up nor His ear dull, that it cannot hear. But your iniquities feed separated you from your God and your sins deal hole-and-corner(a) His face from you, so that He lead not hear (Isaiah 591-2). It is not our job to psychoanalyze or tinctureually dissect those who have not had their prayers answered in the past. But we have a duty to film ourselves Do I worship the true God? Do I do His go forth? Please be honest with yourself. It is easy to fend for or to reason around this very clear scriptural principle method active obeying Gods law for having your prayers answered.As you grow in grace and in the knowledge of Jesus Christ (2 Peter 318), He bequeath live His life in you to a greater extent and more fully over the course of your Christian life. Certainly you bequeath not be perfect (mature) all at at one time, and no human being has ever been perfect (spotless) except Jesus Christ Himself. But you leave behind be walking in the way of the Ten Commandments by surrendering to Him. By walking with Christ in this manner, you can be assured of having more powerful answers to your pra yers than ever before. Key 4 Forgive OthersAnother vital key to answered prayer is our willingness to unfeignedly FORGIVE others. Frankly, our loving Father in heaven simply does not hear those who hump to Him in a spirit of revenge, bitterness or hatred. Immediately later giving us the lords supplicateerthe outline prayer describing the right oecumenical approach to public lectureing with GodJesus went on to instruct His chase If you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also for give you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses neither will your Father for give your trespasses (Matthew 614-15).And Psalm 6618-20 says, If I look iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me but verily ( sincerely yours) God hath heard me He hath attended to the voice of my prayer. goddamn be the God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor His mercy from me. Key 5Seek Gods Will Another key to lucky prayer is to be absolutely sure thatas far as possibleyou ali gn your will and your requests with Gods will. As you zealously study the Bible and yield to permit Christ live indoors you, His will increasingly replaces your own. It affects how you pray.You come to realize that God has made all men and women in His imagethat He will call all mankind to understanding and repentance in His own time. With this in mind, you will not be praying just for your own good, but for the good of others as well. Then you can sincerely say to God, as Jesus did non My will, but Yours be through with(p) (Luke 2242). Remember this key phraseology from the outline prayer of Jesus in Matthew 6, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven (v. 10). We all assume to focus on this as we pray. What is really best for us and everyone have-to doe with in the long runonly God knows for sureOn the other hand, the Bible contains literally dozens of promises and/or direct indications of what God has done or will do in regard to answered prayer. If we pray in religio n that God will hear usand in accordance to His willwe may be sure that He is listening. at present this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him (1 John 514-15). Key 6Have Faith in God The more you drink in of the Bible, the more deeply you will realize the vastness of FAITH. But without trust it is impossible to please Him for he that cometh to God moldiness believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him (Heb. 116). The bottom line is that you cannot please God without Faith, and generally speaking, the Bible makes it crystallization clear that God will not hear and answer your prayers unless you come to Him in faith. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will rec eive anything from the Lord (James 16).We need to larn careful note of this vital teaching of Jesus Christ with respect to prayer and faith Have faith in God. For assuredly, I say to you whoever says to this mountain, Be removed and be cast into the sea, and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. Therefore I say unto you, whatever things you ask when you pray, retrieve that you receive them, and you WILL have them (Mark 1122-24). By continually drinking in of the Bible and praying for faith, you will find that your faith will increase more and more.Understand that life sentence faith is produced by Gods Holy Spirit indoors us, and Jesus said, If you then(prenominal), being evil know how to give good endows to your children, how very much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy spirit to those who ask Him (Lk. 1113). God wants to give us those things we ask for if we scurvily ask for them and our motives and priorities are not selfish ones. So we need to pray to Him continually to give us the FAITH we need. We need to learn to BELIEVE in the promises of God. We need to learn to believe that God is REALthat He has perfect wisdom, perfect bask and perfect POWER.Realize that He will KEEP all his promises We need to learn to imitate Abraham, the father of the flock (Romans 416), for he did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also ABLE to actualize (Rom. 420-21). This is real faith. This is the attitude you essential have to receive true(a) answers to your prayers. Key 7Be Persistent If your child asks you just once for a bicycle and then seemingly forgets about it and never considers the return up again how deep is his or her desire for it?How much do you think they would appreciate it if they did get one? And so it is when we ask for something fr om our heavenly father. Before He supernaturally intervenes, God wants to know that we deeply desire whatever we ask for, and that we will respect and worship Him for answering our prayer. In other words, God uses our need or desire as a vehicle to draw us closer to Him, spirituallyto cause us to focus on His will and on what is really best for us and for any others who might be involved. If we carelessly ask for something, and then roughly forget that we ever did, what would that indicate?It might tell God that we are not all that interested in His doing what we ask Or it could be that all our desires are shallow, perhaps endlessly changing, and that we would not feel a deep sense of appreciation and worship even if He ceaselessly answered such shallow prayers (See Luke 181-8). God wants us to be persistent. He wants us to walk with Him, talk with Him and commune with Him continuallyday by and by day in this age, and ultimately throughout eternity The Apostle Paul instructs us to pray without ceasing (1 Thess. 517).David said in Psalm 5516-17, As for me, I will call upon God, and the Lord shall save me. Evening and dayspring and at noon I will pray, and cry aloud, and He shall hear my voice. So pray regularly. Spend plenty of TIME communing with Jesus Christ and your celestial Father. And neverEVERstop praying to God For, in more ways than one, your very life depends upon this wholesaler Key 8Pray Fervently In Hosea 714 God cites as one of the reasons He did not hear the prayers of ancient Israel was that and they have not cried unto Me with their heart. The Moffatt deracination of this same verse reads, They never prepare their Heart into their prayers. What about us? Do you and I pray with our entire being? Or do we just rattle off a memorized prayer like some pagan chant or perhaps remainderily mumble a few half-hearted requests to God just before drifting off to sleep? Again, remember Jesus example of getting up early to pray to the Father. F or prayer was vitally important to Christ. That is why He apparently put it first on His schedulebefore anything else could interfere.And he probably came bear to God repeatedly as the day progressed. The Book of Hebrews tells us about Christs passionate, heartfelt prayers Who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly forethought (Heb. 57). It is good to go to a private place to pray as Jesus instructed in Matthew 6. Alone, we can occasionally cry out to our temptations or difficulties where only the help of God Himself can fully take care of the situation.In Luke 2244 Jesus was crying out to His Father in such an intense and passionate manner that some of His capillaries may have literally burstfilling certain stew ducts with blood. In our modern secular, hedonistic, laid back society, we need to grasp that the truly vital issues of life are not material. Rather, they are spiritualhaving to do with our Creator and with all eternity. They are certainly worthy of getting harebrained about. So let us put our hearts into our prayers. Let us be ferventLet us be passionate as we pour out our hearts to the awesome Personality who wants to be our real Father the High and Lofty One who inhabits eternity (Isaiah 5715). Key 9Ask God to Fashion and Mold You A genuine man or woman of God is one who has totally surrendered to the will of the Creator. Through the Prophet Isaiah God tells us But on this one will I look on Him who is poor and of a ruthful spirit, and who trembles at My word (Isa. 662). This attitude of seeking Gods will rather than our ownof total submission to our Heavenly fatheris vital to our prayer life if we are to receive ceaseless and powerful answers.Do you want to truly grow spiritually? attend to Ephesians 413 Till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perf ect man, to the measure of the stature of the profuseness of Christ. If youre serious about growing and becoming mature then we need to all wrestle with God in our prayers as Jacob literally wrestled with Him and prevailed (Gen. 3224-32). We need to engage Him in long, thoughtful conversation about how we can more fully yield to Him, walk with Him in our lives. We need to constantly ask God to help us fulfill the great PURPOSE for which we were born.It is finewithin limitsto pray for physical things. BUT THE last-ditch PURPOSE OF PRAYER IS TO HELP US FOCUS ON GOD, apply TO HIM AND SURRENDER OUR WILL TO HIS AS WE CULTIVATE A VITAL interactional RELATIONSHIP. In this way He becomes increasingly real to us. Through constant and heartfelt Bible Study and prayer we must seek Gods will. We must grasp that our past ideas and attitudes about God and religion in general need much improvement. This process will bring us to a point in our lives where we learn to walk with Him, talk with H im, quietly commune with Him off and on all day long.Sincerely ask Him to mold you into His own image. The approach of yielding to God as you pray, of asking Him to rebuke and chasten and fashion you, is one of the vital keys to really powerful prayer. Key 10Give Praise and Thanks to manufacturing business God Another of the qualities that made King David a man after Gods own heart was the sincere love, worship and reverence that he continually expressed toward the great creator who blessed him, preserve him and guided him. The entire Book of Psalms is literally filled with Davids prayers of worship and adoration.Listen to Psalm 181-3, I will love you, O Lord my strength. The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer my God, my strength, in whom I will trust my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold, I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised so shall I be save from my enemies. Fifty (50) verses and David never asked for one thing All he does is gi ve God praise and thanks for what He has already done. When was the last time you got down on your knees or walked on your feet and just gave God unremitting repetitious praise and thanks for what He has already done?We need to constantly thank and praise God for every good gift and for His help and blessing in every situation (1 Thess. 518). sort of of losing control in our enthusiasm for sports figures, rock and rap stars or any other human idols, let us unashamedly pour out our whole being in thanking, praising and worshiping the God who made us and who gives us life and breath. This is the God who forgives us time and time and time again, who guides and blesses us, and who in the endplans to share His eternal glory with us if we will only respond and learn to love Him as He loves us. Key 11Pray in the Name of Jesus ChristTo truly and correctly use Jesus name in prayer we must OBEY Him and again ask according to His will. Remember that in the speech on the Mount, Christ warned Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Those who do not really know the true God or His way are simply not capable of properly coming before Him in the name of Jesus Christ. To pray in the name of Jesus is to approach the throne of God through the namethe office and authority of Jesus Christ who gives us access to the very throne room of God.So as you approach God in heartfelt, regular prayer, be sure you are obeying your Lord and Master Jesus Christ. Though He does not expect jiffy spiritual maturity, He does want us to walk in His way through the help of the Holy Spirit. When we do we can then come to the Father through Christ alone to make the direct contact of effective prayer. And remember, James said, the effectual (unceasing) fervent prayer of a stainless man availeth much (James 516b). Key 12EXPECT AN ANSWER