STOP! I SAY STOP PRAYING!
Yes! I mean it. You have to stop praying for some moments, get your pen and your paper to write down some of the basic things you must know about prayer, because you might be wandering why your prayer has not been answered for the past many years. Hey; me too had found myself in such situation like that before and such thing has nearly made me to believe that all I heard about God is fiction. But thanks be to God that helped me to find out some basic truth about prayer and what makes prayer to be answered. Some of these truths I want to share with you now, but before let me share with you the meaning of the word "prayer"
Prayer mean asking or making a request for some things from someone you believe he/she has, and you know such person will give you your request. GOD is the only personality that has such ability to grant your request. If you read through your Bible you will discover that God uses his creatures like people, angel and other means to grant your request .He (God) uses them as an avenue to reach you with your blessing (request).God is the only one you can turn to for any request because He is the creator of heaven and earth and every things both visible and invisible! (Genesis 1-end.psalm100:3)
For GOD to grant your requests you need to fulfill the following:
1. You must belong to God's family:
Like beget like. Goat gives birth to goat. Lion begets lions. All of these animals behave according to the way their parents behave. And that is what makes them what we call them today! Lion can never behave like a goat or goat like lion.
If you are born of God you will need to possess God's behaviour. It is those who born of God overcome the world (1 John 5:4).
They overcome because:
(i) They know how to overcome.
(ii) They belong to God
(iii) Because they have the habit of over comer (Jesus)
So if you have not giving your life to Christ your prayer will not be answer at all. God does not listen to a sinner.
Now get your bible and read verse allow to yourself, John 9:3. Who is a sinner? He/she who does not believe in God and Jesus Christ whom He sent to save the world .You are not a sinners because you are a liar, harlot, drunkard, slanderer, hater of good things ...etc .You are a sinner because you refuse to accept Jesus as your personal savior. Such person is condemned already. John 3:18.
So friend; accept you belong to God's family your prayer can not be answered.
Hey; God is not a wicked God. He loves you and wants you to belong to His family and get answer to your prayer, read John 3:16-18; you will quickly understand what God is saying. So ask yourself and jut down these questions
Do I have the mind really born of God?"
Is Christ is in my mind"
Do Ireally know God?
If you can not really answer these questions; I guess you need God.
Just pray like this "God I really need you. Come to my life.Save me and forgive me all my sin.Jesus;
I accept you as my Lord and personal savior .Amen."
Congratrulation folk, now you are part of the family of God.
2.You must learn God's way : We all have ways of doing things,likewise God also has His own ways of doing thing.But God's ways are not the ways of man.God see things beyong what we see.GOd sees things from the end to the begginning .So to be successful in life you need to learn His ways.God can show His way to you Just as he did to Moses(psalm 103:7).Until you know His (God) ways you will never enjoy His act.God's way are simple to learn and take discipline to follow them.Our problem can be solve without prayer if we really follow His way.Because He knows what we need and when we call on Him (God) ,He will answer(Jeremiah 33:3 psalm 91:15).if you go through the Bible verces you will discover that to everty problem in life there is a solution.God is able and nothing impossible with Him to do.That problem the is bigger in your eyes is just a little ant before His (God) eyes.To get your problem solve you need to know and lerarn His ways.
*one of the God's ways is that He (God) want you to believe on Him ,so that whatever your request might be ;He is able to do it,mark 11:22-24.
Also He (God) wants us to do our obligations as children to him by
giving our offering and tithe ,Malachi 3:10-12
by giving to the less priviledge, proverb 19:17
by preaching the gospel luke 24:46-47
Loving God and your fellows
by obeying the law and the authority of our courntry home,1 peter 2:13-18
As we are doing so God is commited to answer your prayers.
NOW; pick your pen and answer the follwoing and access yourself.
Are you been follow God's way?
Are you been doing your obligation to God and man?
DO you think God can answer you without you following His way? Go back to John 9:31 and read again.
3.You must know who your enemy is:
Now who is your enemy ? your boss or your co-mate? your school mate or your church member? your wife or husband? NOoooooooo! they are not your enemy.The only enemy you have is Satan! 1peter 5:8 .Satan can just use any of these people to give a nagging.The only enemy you have is Satan.Satan will not want you to follow God's way You must fight a good fight of faith. yes! satan will not like you to obey God's word neither would he be happy when he sees you walking on God's way. So he will like to distract you
by:
(i)making you feel lazy to learn the word of God,
(ii)by saying some things to your mind to tell you that all is fiction!
(iii)by using situations and circumstances to get rid of the word of God you have heard.
Therefore; you must know how satan operate and learn how to put him(Satan) to flight (1pet5:8)
Our mind is very important when comes to the issue of life and things of the spirit.Satan uses the avenue to suggest some tevil thought to our mind (which may be dangerous to our faith and our relationship with people).If we reject such thought then we are the winners.But if we agree with him (Satan) and implement such devilish thought (just as Adam and Evil did in the Garden of Eden) then will are the loosers!.And this may affect our relationship with God.Immaging how a wrestler or boxer will feel when lose to the opponent? It will not affect him alone, it will makes his fans feel bad too.Just exackly heaven feels when a chritsian fail for sin.
Therefore let us keep our mind with all dillegent because out of it comes the issue of life.We should also make up our mind to resist the evil thoughts that may lead us to sin.
How to fight such devilish thought
(a)Reject immediately it comes to your mind
(b)Occupy your mind by singing or praising God
(c)Get some christians books on positive thinking
(d)Get advice from your pastor or elders(Aged christian that has good testimonies on such area).
NOTE; when ever satan tempt you to sin please kindly read and meditate on 1john 3;6, God will give you grace to overcome. Remember satan can use your boss to tempt you(may be to sleep with him) he can (satan) use any body to tempt you in different way.
Now, take your pen and jut down and answer to the below questions;
(i)Are you tempted by some one before?
(ii)Did you fall or win then?
(iii)Did you know where to run when temptation bekon on you ?
(iv)How do you feel when you yeild to temptation?
4.the law of affirmation
I got to know that the only best way to fight and develop my faith is through constantly possitives conffesion in the book of Psalm 91 :2 THE Psalmist say "I will say of the lord he is my refuge ..." There is a need for us to develop the habit of saying possitive statement day and night and we should not stop saying it until we see the result.we should reach a point in life that our thought and speech should be possitive every day and night;there is a great reward. for "what you really confesss surely shall com to pass either you like it or not because word are powerful. Word is a spirit and life Proverb14:28 Psalm 13: 12-13In summery;
If you are been asking God for a particular thing and it seen that there is a delay, what you need to do is to know maybe:
(1) you belong to God
(2) you know Gog's way and parctice it
(3) you really know that satan is the only enemy you have
(4) you realy confess what you believe everyday,
If you score 100% in the listed above,and prayer still not answer, then I will recommend that you start praising God and as you do God will meraculusly bless you and give you amazing result to your prayers. Please read (psalm 67:8).
Get books and tapes on praise and worship.Learn how to praise God.Practise it every day and you will witness possitive life changing.I have practise it and it has worked for me!
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God bless you.
Hidden Feeling
If I have burden to bear
and strength fail to carry
if I have song to sing
And no one to listen
If I plead my cause with nature
and no one to justify
If cold of life caches me on aware
and the wormness deny me it pleasure
My cause will I plead with no mortal
And to no flesh will I reveal my pains
To thee will I open my castle heart oh Immortal
And my hidden part will I see
To give me rest When I pure heart before you
To give me joy when thou say Yes to my request
To make me a man of testimonies
When thou say Amen.
by
Olakanmy matthew yemi
