WHAT IS NECESSARY FOR ANSWERED PRAYER?

SATURDAY, 13TH JANUARY, 2024.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE – General Overseer

 

TOPIC: WHAT IS NECESSARY FOR ANSWERED PRAYER?

 

MEMORIZE: “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.” James 5:16.

 

EXPOSITION:

The word of God make us know that it is not all prayers that God answer. Prayers prayed amiss will be answered – “Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.” James 4:3. The prayer of the wicked is abomination to God – “The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?” Proverbs 21:27. Therefore, for our prayers to answered, there are things to put into consideration.

i. We must not turn away from the law.  “He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.” Proverbs 28:9.

ii. If we regard iniquity in our hearts, God will not hear us. “If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:” Psalm 66:18.

iii. We must confess and forsake our sins. “He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.” Proverbs 28:13.

iv. We are to forgive and pray for others. “And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. 14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:” Matthew 6:14, 15.

v. We should pray for our enemies and persecutors. “But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;” Matthew 5:44. Job’s captivity was turned when he prayed for his inadequate friends. “And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.” Job 42:10.

 

We must confess our faults to each other and pray for one another. “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.” James 5:16.

We are admonished to pray especially in the last days of deception and peril. “But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.” 1 Peter 4:7;

“And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. 35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.” Luke 21:34-36.

 

PRAYER POINT: Lord, guide me through in my prayer life ad help me to fulfill your purpose in life in Jesus name.

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