Answered Prayers
How many of you have unanswered prayers?
How many of you have experienced answered prayers?
Does God want to answer our prayers?
Is it God's will to answer your prayers?
Why does God want to answer your prayers?
How can our prayers be answered?
Revelation 5:8
Now when He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having a harp, and golden bowls (bohl ] full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
Jesus has unanswered prayers - John 17:22
And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one:
• Every prayer that is made in the will of God is never forgotten
Illustration: "A bowl full of prayers"
Why does God answer your prayer?
Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, But the prayer of the upright is His delight.
Songs 2:14
“O my dove, [ duhv ] in the clefts[ kleft ] of the rock, In the secret places of the cliff, [ klif ] let me see your face, let me hear your voice; For your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.”
James 4:2
You lust and do not have. You murder and covet[ kuhv-it ] and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask.
Ask in Hebrew means "to put a demand, to demand for something that is owed"
Matthew 7:7-8
Keep Asking, Seeking, Knocking
7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
• Put a demand in heaven
John 14:13
And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
John 16:23-24
23 “And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you. 24 Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.
• Alignment with the will of God
• God does not listen to manipulation prayers
1 John 5:14-15
14 Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 15 And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.
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