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How To Get Answered Prayers?
Contributed by William R. Nabaza on Aug 11, 2018 (message contributor)
Summary: This aims to show you how to get answered prayers and not only that but in an instant.
How To Get Answered Prayers?
John 15:7 If you live in Me [abide vitally united to Me] and My words remain in you {and} continue to live in your hearts, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you.
The LORD JESUS CHRIST promised it Himself if you want to get your prayers answered by GOD, there's a condition that you have to do on your own part. It is plain and simple and the conditions if they are met you will have answered prayers. GOD answers prayers in a way that will pass our requirements but GOD answers prayers in a way that He likes according to His Divine Master Plan established long before the world came to being.
Now back to the question, How To Get Answered Prayers? Simple according to this WORD OF GOD, you only need to live in JESUS CHRIST, live in the LORD JESUS CHRIST, and you will have answered prayers.
How to do that?
The word "live" or "abide" came from the Greek word: "meno" meaning stay, continue, dwell, remain, stand, tarry, so to summarize it, it's just the following:
To live in GOD means:
1. To stay in His Presence:
you can do this by reading the bible everyday, pray everyday, memorize some parts of the bible that you can see that are applicable to you. For example if you need healing, and all of us needs healing in some areas or another, you need to memorize:
But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our guilt {and} iniquities; the chastisement [needful to obtain] peace {and} well-being for us was upon Him, and with the stripes [that wounded] Him we are healed {and} made whole.
He personally bore our sins in His [own] body on the tree [as on an altar and offered Himself on it], that we might die (cease to exist) to sin and live to righteousness. By His wounds you have been healed.
I can hear someone saying, woe, it's hard to live in GOD, it's easy if you can memorize, memorize and recite/declare it all day long, that way you are conscious always of GOD and not of yourself, that's living in GOD, staying in His Presence.
And you have not His word (His thought) living in your hearts, because you do not believe {and} adhere to {and} trust in {and} rely on Him Whom He has sent. [That is why you do not keep His message living in you, because you do not believe in the Messenger Whom He has sent.]
The WORD OF GOD will change our hearts and make it a believing heart. That's what is the first and foremost important prayer aspect or prayer ingredients that most people are forgetting. If you don't have faith or belief, GOD even GOD, the most powerful and awesome GOD can't help you.
Have you tried someone helping out who is drowning? What's your first instruction to him/her? Let GO of me. I'll hold you and you relax. But if the person will not listen to you, then guess what, both of you will start to sink and drown.
We let go of ourselves into the mighty hands of GOD and we let GOD do His Own Thing.
2. Continue in His Presence.
The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but people are tested by their praise.
Okay, we're all there in that same boat, that we belive GOD, remember this belief is enough to make you tremble and much, much more. If not then you are not greater than the demons.
Make this belief or faith not just mouth-baesd but heart-based, enough to change you.
You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that--and shudder.
You say ok, everything I have in life, I don't deserve them it's all a gift from GOD, every abilities, every talents, every activities, every successes and every failures I dedicated and give GOD the praise, honor and worship He deserves.
But when someone praises you, Oh bro, Oh sis, you are the best! then we start leaving the presence of GOD and focus on our self. It's not that, praises have tested you out and found out that you are a hypocrite.
Continue in His Presence.
Someone have praised me like, Oh pastor you are really different and great, you want to give people money rather taking from them, and I replied back, you call me great and different? funny, I never saw myself like that, what I saw is a sinner who needs GOD badly.
That's a sample of continuing in His Presence.
fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
