Taken from Sunday Service Preaching:Three Principles to answered Prayers

Do you have any answered prayers? Answered prayers that you were asking from God for a quite sometime, or answered prayers that you were longing to ask and then God has just recently answered. But, if your prayer has not answered yet, these following principles will help you a lot, on how will God answer your prayers as well as, asking things according to His will.

Here are the three principles to answered prayers:

1.) Ask in Faith

1 John 5:13

" I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life."

• With a firm conviction and a full acknowledgement God's Lordship and an attitude of personal surrender to Him.

• Our basis is our covenant and relationship with God.

2.) Ask in Confidence

1 John 5:14

"This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us."

1 John 3:21

"Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God..."

3.) Ask in God's will

• It is proper and necessary of His own will.
• God's will in is in His word.
• God's will is revealed through His Holy Spirit.

Romans 8:26

"In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express."

Area of God's will :

• As the forgiveness of sins
• The sanctification of our soul
• Grace that we may do our duty
• Vision to direct and guide us.
• Deliverance from the evil's, which besets us.
• And our final Salvation.

Note:

Ask in God's will with full assurance of faith.

Luke 18:1

"Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.