READ: ACTS
19:11-20
Prayer is
such a crucial issue that must not be handled haphazardly. Unfortunately, a lot
of people have reduced prayer to a sort of hit or miss venture. If you ask some
believers to give you specific instances of answered prayers in their lives,
they might go blank for several minutes. Such people pray without thinking
about how to get tangible results. Are your prayers always answered? Do you
have testimonies to back up your prayer efforts? Some people always receive
answers to their prayers without fail because they are familiar with the kind
of prayers that God cannot refuse to answer. T he secret of these types of
prayers is found in Revelation 4:9-11, “Whenever the living creatures give glory and
honor and thanks to Him who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever, the
twenty-four elders fall down before Him who sits on the throne and worship Him
who lives forever end ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying:
You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created
all things, and by Your will they exist and were created.” Why were the
Heaven and the Earth created? They were created for God’s pleasure. Everything
that was created or will ever be created must satisfy one purpose only. This
purpose is to give pleasure to our God. The moment you understand this, you
will then know the kind of prayer you should say. If your prayer will bring
pleasure to the Almighty God the answer is guaranteed. The book of 1 John 3:20-22
tells us that; “For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows
all things. Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence
toward God. And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His
commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.” How
wonderful it is to be assured of answered prayer even before you are through
with it. Learn to give your prayer efforts a sharp focus. Manifest confidence
in God and become thoroughly familiar with his “pleasure” and you will begin to
swim in the ocean of answered prayers.
MEMORIZE:
1 JOHN 3:21 –Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence
toward God.
