I. EXORDIUM:
Is GOD answering your prayers?
Yes. He's the Great YES (AMEN) in my life which is built upon His Promises.
2 Corinthians 1:20 (Amplified Bible)
For as many as are the promises of God, they all find their Yes [answer] in Him [Christ]. For this reason we also utter the Amen (so be it) to God through Him [in His Person and by His agency] to the glory of God.
II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:
Believers/unbelievers
III. OBJECTIVES:
To show that we are nothing without GOD's Presence in our lives, but with GOD'S Presence in our lives all our prayers are answered with Yes.
IV. TEXT:
John 15:7 (Amplified Bible)
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.
V. THESIS:
Praise, worship, glorify, adore, bless, honor, acknowledge and thank You very much LORD JESUS for You dwell in me permanently through Your WORDS and by the Power of the HOLY SPIRIT and every prayers that I have are always Yes according to Your Promises.
VI. TITLE:
Live in JESUS all your prayer requests are answered
VII. EXPLICATION:
A. Author: John the Apostle, son of Zebedee and Salome, and younger brother of James.
—Life Application Concise New Testament Commentary
B. Date and Setting:
Written between a.d. 85–90 from Ephesus, after the destruction of Jerusalem (a.d. 70) and before John’s exile to the island of Patmos
—Life Application Concise New Testament Commentary
C. Audience:
New Christians and searching non-Christians.
—Life Application Concise New Testament Commentary
D. Purpose:
John 20:31 (New Living Translation, Second Edition)
But these are written so that you may continue to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing in him you will have life by the power of his name.
VIII. MAIN BODY:
John 15:7 (Amplified Bible)
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.
John 15:7 (New King James Version)
If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.
A. If we live in JESUS, His WORDS remain in us and in our hearts
"If you live in Me [abide vitally united to Me] and My words remain in you and continue to live in your hearts,"
Psalms 119:11 (Amplified Bible)
Your word have I laid up in my heart, that I might not sin against You.
We hid or laid GOD's WORDS in our lives and in our hearts by reading them frequently, meditating them, memorizing them, mentioning and declaring them as promises in our prayers, mentioning it through out the day, looking at it frequently, that's how it is, and most of all, hearing it preached every mid week services, prayer meetings, and Sunday services. We don't want to leave our minds unoccupied or idle but we always in our solitude time, meditate and memorize GOD'S WORDS.
Proverbs 4:4 (Amplified Bible)
He taught me and said to me, Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments and live.
By keeping GOD's WORDS in our heart and life, we tend to live them out, we live GOD's eternal life here on earth and by becoming like the LORD JESUS.
John 17:3 (Amplified Bible)
And this is eternal life: [it means] to know (to perceive, recognize, become acquainted with, and understand) You, the only true and real God, and [likewise] to know Him, Jesus [as the] Christ (the Anointed One, the Messiah), Whom You have sent.
1 John 4:17 (Amplified Bible)
In this [union and communion with Him] love is brought to completion and attains perfection with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment [with assurance and boldness to face Him], because as He is, so are we in this world.
Ephesians 6:4 (Amplified Bible)
Fathers, do not irritate and provoke your children to anger [do not exasperate them to resentment], but rear them [tenderly] in the training and discipline and the counsel and admonition of the Lord.
An abseentee father who works abroad, never goes to church, always occupied with work, can never train, discipline his wife and children through the counsel and admonition of the LORD JESUS.
Colossians 3:16 (Amplified Bible)
Let the word [spoken by] Christ (the Messiah) have its home [in your hearts and minds] and dwell in you in [all its] richness, as you teach and admonish and train one another in all insight and intelligence and wisdom [in spiritual things, and as you sing] psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, making melody to God with [His] grace in your hearts.
Let GOD'S WORDS dwell in our hearts by singing psalms and spiritual songs in our hearts, making melody to GOD with His grace in our hearts. I do this by memorizing part of songs specially the chorus of songs (worship songs preferably) and when I walk, travel, I sing to myself all these choruses because I know I'm worshipping GOD through songs in my heart, until it becomes part of my life.
1 John 2:14 (Amplified Bible)
I write to you, fathers, because you have come to know (recognize, be conscious of, and understand) Him Who [has existed] from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong and vigorous, and the Word of God is [always] abiding in you (in your hearts), and you have been victorious over the wicked one.
As a man, I tried to work hard and labor that GOD'S WORDS will always stay alive, abiding in my heart, so that I will be victorious over the wicked one.
ILLUSTRATION: I came in touch with a hard headed young man, and he still insists that he can survive this world without going to church services because his girlfriend told him not to do so. I laughed at him, just consider number of years to pass in his life, and you'll see this young man returning to his former sins of vices. Why? Yes it's because he forgot to abide in GOD'S WORDS, he forgot that it is required of us believers to be in church every Sundays, he will never be victorious over the wicked one.
1 John 2:27 (Amplified Bible)
But as for you, the anointing (the sacred appointment, the unction) which you received from Him abides [permanently] in you; [so] then you have no need that anyone should instruct you. But just as His anointing teaches you concerning everything and is true and is no falsehood, so you must abide in (live in, never depart from) Him [being rooted in Him, knit to Him], just as [His anointing] has taught you [to do].
We have the anointing of GOD that stays in us through the deposit of the HOLY SPIRIT in our lives and we stay in His Presence by His WORDS by the HOLY SPIRIT, the WORD OF GOD is a spiritual thing, it's the very breath of GOD written in paper.
2 John 1:1-2 (Amplified Bible)
THE ELDERLY elder [of the church addresses this letter] to the elect (chosen) lady (Cyria) and her children, whom I truly love—and not only I but also all who are [progressively] learning to recognize and know and understand the Truth—
Because of the Truth which lives and stays on in our hearts and will be with us forever:
There are no forevers here on earth, because only GOD's WORDS remains forever, but there is forever in heaven.
Luke 16:17 (Amplified Bible)
Yet it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one dot of the Law to fail and become void.
Luke 21:33 (Amplified Bible)
The sky and the earth (the universe, the world) will pass away, but My words will not pass away.
People tend to be angry with me when I'm playing worship songs on my computer, that's why they wanted to kill me, because GOD'S WORDS played over and over again on worship songs that I listened to can never find a place in them. Their stony heart is to be blamed not GOD'S WORDS, because they don't accept GOD's WORDS as GOD'S WORDS but mere writings of men.
John 8:37 (Amplified Bible)
[Yes] I know that you are Abraham’s offspring; yet you plan to kill Me, because My word has no entrance (makes no progress, does not find any place) in you.
B. Ask whatever we will and it shall be done for us.
"ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you"
1 John 5:14 (Amplified Bible)
And this is the confidence (the assurance, the privilege of boldness) which we have in Him: [we are sure] that if we ask anything (make any request) according to His will (in agreement with His own plan), He listens to and hears us.
Prayers are not based in the beauty of words but it's based on the BEAUTIFUL WORDS of GOD in our hearts that we have memorized and we can call them to memory every time we want to when we pray. It gives our prayer, power and authority, to enter into earth, because it's powered by the HOLY SPIRIT in JESUS' NAME, and through our cooperation of filling our hearts with GOD's WORDS.
1 John 3:22 (Amplified Bible)
And we receive from Him whatever we ask, because we [watchfully] obey His orders [observe His suggestions and injunctions, follow His plan for us] and [habitually] practice what is pleasing to Him.
We follow and obey GOD'S WORDS for us for this day, that's why we need to have our daily devotions, daily worships and daily quiet time, what ever we call them in churc, we have to have that, our daily bread where GOD gives us instructions for that day alone and we do His instructions in our lives by living out His WORDS. Remember the LORD JESUS is not only our Savior but also our LORD, we obey, He gives out the instructions through His WORDS and our part is to be follow, obey and live out His WORDS, it's not the other way around.
ILLUSTRATION: I found a real estate woman who wants to go to church but at her terms not on Sundays because it's according to her, that it's her busiest because there are more customers on Sundays rather than on regular days, the weekdays. Pity her, she can't accept instructions from the LORD. Sundays are mandated day of worship for us believers, if you can't follow that simple rule, how can GOD give you complex ones??
Galatians 5:16 (Amplified Bible)
But I say, walk and live [habitually] in the [Holy] Spirit [responsive to and controlled and guided by the Spirit]; then you will certainly not gratify the cravings and desires of the flesh (of human nature without God).
Walk habitually in the HOLY SPIRIT. I allow GOD, the Trinity to rule my day, prioritizing my days, at the start when I wake up, I kneel down and acknowledge GOD'S Ownership over my life.
Psalms 37:4 (Amplified Bible)
Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your heart.
Our delight is not in money, not in career, not in friends, but our delight is in the LORD, we are delighted because the LORD JESUS never leaves us.
Proverbs 10:24 (Amplified Bible)
The thing a wicked man fears shall come upon him, but the desire of the [uncompromisingly] righteous shall be granted.
The desires are constant drive in our hearts, it's prompted by the HOLY SPIRIT for us to desire something, and we desire the HOLY SPIRIT, we desire GOD, THE FATHER, we desire GOD, THE SON, and we desire GOD, THE HOLY SPIRIT's Mighty Presence in our lives, that's what are desires are, and the physical desires we have are all granted by GOD.
John 15:16 (Amplified Bible)
You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and I have appointed you [I have planted you], that you might go and bear fruit and keep on bearing, and that your fruit may be lasting [that it may remain, abide], so that whatever you ask the Father in My Name [as presenting all that I AM], He may give it to you.
It's not a choice to serve GOD, but rather that's why we're in the ministry of GOD, it's because GOD have chosen us, not us choosing Him, it's the other way around.
John 16:23 (Amplified Bible)
And when that time comes, you will ask nothing of Me [you will need to ask Me no questions]. I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, that My Father will grant you whatever you ask in My Name [as presenting all that I AM].
Answered prayers for me are like flowing ocean in my life, answered prayers left and right floods me all day long, that's why I place these answered prayers as worship before the LORD.
Isaiah 58:8 (Amplified Bible)
Then shall your light break forth like the morning, and your healing (your restoration and the power of a new life) shall spring forth speedily; your righteousness (your rightness, your justice, and your right relationship with God) shall go before you [conducting you to peace and prosperity], and the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.
It's prompted by GOD, our daily lives are led by the HOLY SPIRIT and GOD's WORDS.
Isaiah 52:12 (Amplified Bible)
For you will not go out with haste, nor will you go in flight [as was necessary when Israel left Egypt]; for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
ILLUSTRATION: The day the LORD stopped the time. There's a time that when I go to work, I never alloted time to study GOD'S WORDS even when I'm in the office, so the inevitable came, that I will be late in my time-in, using my finger to time-in. It's impossible for me to run wild and reach the office in 1 minute, it's impossible, because I have to be super human to do that. So I uttered like a 7 second prayer and asked the LORD that He stop the time and when He does this for me, I will always allot 1 hour inside the office of my work place to study His WORDS and He did it, so the LORD JESUS stopped the time, He stopped it like 5 minutes and I punched in with my finger 1 minute before the time of work. that's AWESOME! GOD DID IT ALL! And when I'm punching my finger, I heard a still small voice saying to me, now it's my turn to fulfill part of the covenant, so it's my habit to reserve one hour before the time of work so I can study GOD'S WORDS, and I'm planning to do it in church as well. Since our call time in church is 6:30am I'm planning to be in church 5:30am to study His WORDS even outside the church, while waiting it to be open at 6am. Astounding what GOD can do in our lives, there are Joshua's living in our time and I'm blessed to be one of them.
IX. CONCLUSION:
Praise, worship, glorify, adore, bless, honor, acknowledge and thank You very much LORD JESUS for You dwell in me permanently through Your WORDS and by the Power of the HOLY SPIRIT and every prayers that I have are always Yes according to Your Promises.
