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: 5 minutesSometime after I saw that Jesus really meant what he was saying in Matthew 7:7-8, I was again meditating on it, trying to figure it out, trying to understand it, trying to understand how it worked:
“Ask and it will be given to you… For everyone who asks receives…”
Just going over it again, and again, repeating it to myself, thinking about it. As I was doing this, I think I might have been upset by an unanswered prayer, I thought, ‘But this, obviously, isn’t true.’ I talked to Jesus about it, “Jesus what you’re saying here is obviously not true. Lots of people ask and as far as they can tell it’s not given to them. Most people ask and don’t receive…
Reading Time: 2 minutesHere’s how I like to think about it. I imagine myself going before the throne of God to make a request, to submit my prayer. I’m in an antechamber outside the throne room, and there’s a doorway leading in to God’s throne room. As I look
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJesus taught that God wants to answer our prayers, but most Christians have been taught about prayer in such as way that, as Charles Finney put it, “Their prayers were just such as God had promised not to answer.” I want to change your picture of prayer by showing you that even after God says “Yes!” to our prayers we still won’t receive the answer if we fail to do our part. Video, lasts about 35 minutes.
Reading Time: 7 minutesMost Christians have been taught about prayer in such a way that, as Charles Finney said, “Their prayers were just such as God had promised not to answer.”
Reading Time: 7 minutesMost people think about prayer like a kind of slot machine. You put your coin in, pull the handle, and hope for the best. Nothing you do can change the outcome and when your prayer isn’t answered it’s not a big surprise. But if you actually stop to look at what the Bible says about prayer you’ll be shocked to discover that the Bible talks about prayer like it’s a sure thing, a certainty, a guarantee. The Bible pictures prayer as something more like a garden. It’s a sure thing, everyone can have a garden, but it requires effort on our part. There are things we must do, conditions we must meet to receive the answer to our prayers. (Read the rest of this post on my blog here: http://goo.gl/D62Ru )
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMost people think that the “secret” to prayer is getting God to want to answer our prayers. But Jesus taught, the Bible teaches, that God’s “yes” to our prayer, is pretty much a given. God wants to answer our prayers, it’s his desire. My hope with this program is that you will listen to it before you pray, that faith for answered prayer will then come and that when you pray you’ll know that God has said “yes” to your prayer. This is a YouTube video that lasts about 36 minutes. You can watch it in HD if you have a good enough connection.
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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