Your Convictions About Prayer PDF
Your Convictions About Prayer PDF
Your Convictions About Prayer PDF
The Bible contains some tremendous promises Four Basic Convictions About Effective and
concerning prayer that we can confidently believe. Answered Prayer
n Matthew 7:7-8 Ask, and it will be given to
Once we have entered into a relationship with the
you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be
Father through Jesus Christ, we can confidently
opened to you. For everyone who asks receives,
expect answers to our prayers when we . . .
and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks
it will be opened. n Make your requests in accordance with Gods
will (1 John 5:14-15). This means we should ask
n Matthew 21:22 All things you ask in prayer,
for those things that are consistent with His
believing, you will receive.
character, nature, desires, purposes, and plans
n 1 John 5:14-15 This is the confidence which we
for our lives or the lives of those for whom we
have before Him, that, if we ask anything according intercede. He will not give us anything that
to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He is motivated by selfishness, exalts our pride,
hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have contradicts His Word, or leads us into sin.
the requests which we have asked from Him.
n Ask in faith, believing and expecting Him to
The First Decision for Answered Prayer answer. James 1:5-7 tells us, If any of you lacks
wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all
In order to receive answers to prayer, we must first generously and without reproach, and it will be
place our faith in Jesus Christ for the forgiveness given to him. But he must ask in faith without
of our sins. Because God is holy, our sins have any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the
separated us from Him. But when we repent and surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind.
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