How To Get What We Ask For In Prayer.

How to Get What We Ask for in Prayer.

One of the most significant verses in the Bible on prayer is 1 John 3:22, "And whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight." What an astounding statement! John says, in so many words, that everything he asked for he got. How many of us can say this: "Whatsoever I ask I receive?" But John explains this was because we obey God's commands and do what pleases him. In other words, the one who expects God to do as he asks, must do what God wants him to. If we give a listening ear to all God's commands to us, He will give a listening ear to all our petitions to Him.


 If, on the other hand, we turn a deaf ear to His precepts, He will be likely to turn a deaf ear to our prayers. Here we find the secret of much unanswered prayer. We are not listening to God's Word, and therefore He is not listening to our petitions. How to Pray in the Name of Christ It was a wonderful word about prayer that Jesus spoke to His disciples in John 16:23, "Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you." Prayer in the name of Christ has power with God. God is very pleased with His Son Jesus Christ. He hears Him always, and He also always hears the prayer that is really in His name. But what is it to pray in the name of Christ?


 There is nothing mystical or mysterious about this expression. If you go through the Bible and examine all the passages in which the expression "in My name" or "in His name" or similar expressions are used, you will find that it means just about what it does in modern usage.

 If I go to a bank and hand in a check with my name signed on it, I ask for money from the bank in my own name. If I have money deposited in that account, the check will be cashed; if not, it will not be. If, however, I go to a bank with somebody else’s name signed on the check, I am asking in his name, and it does not matter whether I have money in that bank or any other, if the person whose name is signed on the check has money in their account, the check will be cashed. So it is when I go to the bank of Heaven, when I go to God in prayer. I have nothing deposited there and if I go in my own name I will get absolutely nothing; but Jesus Christ has granted to me the privilege of going to the bank with His name on my checks, and when I go, my prayers will be honored to any extent. To pray then in the name of Christ is to renounce the thought that I have any claims on God whatever, and approach Him on the ground of Christ's claims.

Praying in the name of Christ is not merely adding the phrase "I ask these things in Jesus' name" to my prayer. I may put that phrase in my prayer and really be resting in my own merit at the time. On the other hand, I might leave out that phrase but really be resting in the merit of Christ. But when I really do approach God, not on the ground of my merit, but on the ground of Christ's merit, God will hear me. A lot of our modern prayer is ineffective because men approach God imagining that they have some claim upon God where He is under obligations to answer their prayers. Great light is thrown upon the subject of "How to Pray" in 1 John 5:14-15: "This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us. And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him." This passage teaches us plainly that if we are to pray right, we must pray according to God's will.
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"Are You Ready To Serve God More"

     "ARE YOU READY TO SERVE GOD MORE"
It is a good thing if God decides to use you. He wants you to serve him. It is a greater privileged to serve God. Do not waste your opportunity to do. Serving God is a call to work. However, be very careful because immediately He is assigning you to some task He simultaneously prepared a substitute to replace you should you fall out of his plan. Be ready to serve God. Take steps to secure God's given assignment and prevent replacement.

 Ensure you remain humble, be obedient , serve God acceptably today a stay away from Sin You may be hated in the course of serving. People may say a lot about you to discourage you, but do not be discouraged.. God that called you is on your side.

 God called Abraham to serve him faithfully and live a blameless life-Genesis 17:1. Enoch walked with God and won approval as one who pleased God- Hebrew 1:5 . Do not allow your busy schedule rob you of the daily blessing and benefits of serving God. But, grow in grace and in the knowledge  of our Lord  Jesus Christ. to God be the Glory both now and forever more. Amen- 2 Peter 3:18.

 Be as diligent as you are with your secular job, business or academics. Serve God with all your mind. In all labour there is a profit, but idle chatter leads only to Poverty- Pr. 14:23

                                Prayer For Today.
 I receive grace in the name of Jesus to overcome all hindrances to fruitful service. I hold tightly to the external life to which God has called me. Jesus is the vine, and I am the branch. I can do nothing without Jesus. I remain in him and He is in me. In Christ alone, I shall be prosper, blessed and favoured by God. Amen