Conditions for Answered Prayer ?

Silver Surfer · Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 4:50 pm Post subject: Conditions for Answered Prayer ?

My Prayer is that people realize the there are conditions to be met for God to answer Prayer requests.
1 Timothy 2:1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, [and] giving of thanks, be made for all men;

2:2 For kings, and [for] all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

Why should the sons and daughters of God be reluctant to pray, when prayer is the key in the hand of faith to unlock heaven's storehouse, where are treasured the boundless resources of Omnipotence ?

Without unceasing prayer and diligent watching we are in danger of growing careless and of deviating from the right path.

James 5:15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

5:16 Confess [your] faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

The adversary seeks continually to obstruct the way to the mercy seat, that we may not by earnest supplication and faith obtain grace and power to resist temptation.

There are certain conditions upon which we may expect that God will hear and answer our prayers.

One of the first of these is that we feel our need of help from Him.

He has promised, "I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground." Isaiah 44:3. Those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, who long after God, may be sure that they will be filled.

The heart must be open to the Spirit's influence, or God's blessing cannot be received.

Our great need is itself an argument and pleads most eloquently in our behalf.

But the Lord is to be sought unto to do these things for us. He says, "Ask, and it shall be given you." And "He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?" Matthew 7:7; Romans 8:32.

If we regard iniquity in our hearts, if we cling to any known sin, the Lord will not hear us; but the prayer of the penitent, contrite soul is always accepted.

When all known wrongs are righted, we may believe that God will answer our petitions.

Our own merit will never commend us to the favor of God; it is the worthiness of Jesus that will save us, His blood that will cleanse us; yet we have a work to do in complying with the conditions of acceptance.

Another element of prevailing prayer is faith.

"He that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him." Hebrews 11:6. Jesus said to His disciples, "What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them." Mark 11:24.

Do we take Him at His word?

theseldomscene · Banned Joined: 17 Mar 2005 Posts: 7817

Silver Surfer · Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 9:00 am Post subject:

theseldomscene · Banned Joined: 17 Mar 2005 Posts: 7817

no argument here silver... Smile

eleven · Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 8:30 pm Post subject:

Silver Surfer · Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 6:01 am Post subject:

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