Reading Time: 6 minutesSince we imagine that God’s “Yes,” is the only obstacle to our prayer being answered, our entire prayer effort is focused on getting God’s Yes. We dream up all manner of schemes for getting God to Yes. We try begging, or crying, or bargaining, or asking a million people to pray with us. We try asking over and over and over and over and over again, in hopes of getting God to Yes…
Reading Time: 7 minutesJesus was saying that God would give me what I asked for when I prayed, that God would do that for everyone, God would give everyone, what they asked for when they prayed.
Reading Time: 13 minutesBut Jesus and the Bible talk about answered prayer like it’s a sure thing, a certainty, something that is extremely reliable. Here’s Jesus:
Reading Time: 2 minutesHere’s a little blurb I liked from a little booklet I’m working on right now about, How I learned What Faith Is.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt took me 24 years of trying and studying to figure out what Jesus meant by “believe.” In this series of videos I want to show you how I learned what faith is and hopefully you’ll learn what it is too
Reading Time: 4 minutesI think it was May or June of 2010. Ms. Martha—who never fails to come to church, was one of our children’s ministry leaders for years, is a faithful tither, and never complains about the pastor no matter how horrible a job I do,— stood up at the end of the Sunday service to ask for prayer. ” They said they’re laying people off at work…”
Reading Time: < 1 minutePreviously we saw that according to Jesus, according to the Bible, God wants to answer our prayers, it's his desire to answer them. Then we saw that it's not just up to God we have a part to play in receiving the answer. Now we want to begin to look at what our part is,
Reading Time: 9 minutesIn part one we saw that Jesus guarantees the dependability, the reliability, the certainty of prayer. There are no stronger words Jesus could use to guarantee that we would receive what we ask for when we pray than, “…you shall have them…,” but at the same time he lets us know that we have a part to play.
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Reading Time: 7 minutesHere’s another way to think about it. I like to say, “Getting your prayers answered is as easy as losing weight.” It takes a lot of effort to lose weight, but it can be done. Doing what it takes to get our prayers answered may require a great deal of effort as well, but it can be done.
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