Answered Prayer

Answered Prayer


1. Always ask for forgiveness of your sins before you pray. Your heart needs to be set right with God for Him to hear you. Always pray in Jesus name.
2. Mean what you say. Sincere, heartfelt prayer is heard. “Now I lay me down to sleep” said without thought or meaning goes no higher than the ceiling. “ The most eloquent prayers are but idle words if they do not express the true sentiments of the heart, but the prayer that comes from an earnest heart, when the simple wants of the soul are expressed, as we would ask an earthly friend for a favor, expecting it to be granted-this the prayer of faith.”
3. “To every sincere prayer an answer WILL COME. It may not come just as you desire, or at the time you look for it, but it will come in the way and at the time that will best meet your need…..God answers, not always according to your expectations, but always for your own good.” Prayer p8.
4. Do your part to fulfill what you pray for , your work. You cannot expect God to help you on a test if you have not studied for it.
5. “ We may bring Him our little cares and perplexities as well as our greater troubles. Whatever arises to disturb or distress us, we should take it to the Lord in prayer.” “Nothing that in any way concerns our peace is too small for Him to notice.”
6. “Prayer is the opening of the heart to God as to a friend.”
7. God is able to answer our prayers, He is strong enough to do anything. “With God all things are possible.” We can have “firm assurance” that He is capable of filling our needs.
8. “We should have the door of the heart open continually” to God in prayer. If we did this, we would never sin!
9. “Prayer is the breath of the soul, It is the secret of spiritual power.” You often hear people say that they were not strong enough to resist the temptation- if they were praying about it sincerely, they could.
10. “Neglect the exercise of prayer or engage in prayer spasmodically, now and then, as seems convenient, and you lose your hold on God.”
11. Prayers are taken to heaven by the angels and presented to God by Christ Himself, translated in a form acceptable to God.
12. “If you offer no prayer for help…your neglect of duty will be marked in the book of God in heaven.”
13. “Consecrate yourself to God in the morning; make this your very first work.”
14. “Only the work accomplished with much prayer and sanctified by the merit of Christ, will in the end prove to have been efficient for good.”
15. “It is a part of God’s plan to grant us, in answer to the prayer of faith, that which He would not bestow did we not thus ask.” *********
16. “If your faith wavers, you will receive nothing from Him.” If you don’t believe He can or will help then your prayer will not be answered. Faith, Belief is mandatory for answered prayer. “Blessings received are proportionate to the faith exercised. “according to your faith be it unto you.” “
17. “He longs to have you expect great things from Him. He longs to give you understanding in temporal as well as in spiritual matters. He can sharpen the intellect. He can give tact and skill. Put your talents into the work. AskGod for wisdom and it will be given you. “
18. There are prayers that if they are sincere, God always answers YES to. They are for wisdom, “for the pardon of sin, for the Holy Spirit, for a Christlike temper, for strength to do His work, for any gift He has promised, we may ask; then we are to believe that we receive and return thanks to God that we have received.”
19. “The Bible should never be studied without prayer.” The Holy Spirit alone can give you understanding of it.
20. “If we cling to any known sin, the Lord will not hear us; but the prayer of the penitent, contrite soul is always accepted.” “If we render to Him only a partial, halfhearted obedience, His promises will not be fulfilled to us.”***********
21. Tithes and offerings- “But if we withhold from Him that which is His own, how can we expect Him to entrust us with the things of heaven? It may be that this is the secret of unanswered prayer.” COL.44.
22. “Sometimes answers to our prayers come immediately; sometimes we have to wait patiently and continue earnestly to plead for the things that we need. “
23. “Often our plans fail that God’s plans for us may succeed.” “In the future life the mysteries that have here annoyed and disappointed us will be made plain. We shall see that our seemingly unanswered prayers and disappointed hopes have been among our greatest blessings.” Remember that “ Our heavenly Father is more willing to give His Holy Spirit to that that ask Him, than are earthly parents to give good gifts to their children.”
24. “Continual earnest Prayer is the way to walk with God. “This is how Enoch walked with God.”
25. ”The youth who finds his joy in reading the word of God, and in the hour of prayer, will be constantly refreshed by drafts from the fountain of life. His will attain a height of moral excellence and a breadth of thought of which others cannot conceive. Communion with God encourages good thoughts, noble aspirations, clear perceptions of truth, and lofty purposes of action.”
26. “Any amusement in which you can engage asking the blessing of God upon it in faith, will not be dangerous.”