![]() Mark 11:24 “Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.” ![]() No good father would give their child whatever they wanted like a knife for example. I heard of a man several years ago who was giving thanks for his prayers being answered but the interesting thing was, he gave thanks to God for the answered prayer for the ones that he had just prayed! I thought, how could he know that God had answered them already? Didn’t he have to wait to see how it turned out first? No, because even though this man’s answer was answered immediately received, even with no evidence of it, he understood it could be “No,” “Not yet,” or “I’ve got something better for you.” He trusted the Lord enough to know that God’s “No” is always best for us and it usually so we won’t hurt ourselves or others. Psalm 118:21 “I will give you thanks, for you answered me you have become my salvation.” Hannah was childless and that was a sign of shame in Israel so imagine Hannah’s joy when she could finally say “ prayed for this child, and the LORD has granted me what I asked of him” (1st Sam 1:27). And she vowed a vow and said, “O Lord of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a son, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall touch his head” (1st Sam 1:10-11). ![]() Hannah was so desperate for a child that she would often go to “ the doorpost of the temple of the Lord” (1st Sam 1:9b) for she “ was deeply distressed and prayed to the Lord and wept bitterly. How can we be like the psalmist and believe that “truly God has listened?” Again, we must know the will of God in order to pray for His will to be done and to find the will of God you must find a Bible.ġst Samuel 1:27 “I prayed for this child, and the LORD has granted me what I asked of him.” The psalmist was completely sure that not only did God listen to his prayer but that He attended to the voice of his prayer, meaning that God answered it. Psalm 66:19 “But truly God has listened he has attended to the voice of my prayer.” To know God’s will we must know God’s Word. ![]() In the strictest sense, He will answer it with a “No” or “not yet” or “that’s not my will” so finding out God’s will can help us to receive answered prayer and God’s will is revealed in the Bible. The Apostle John seemed confident that God would answer our prayers but he added that “ if we ask anything according to his will he hears us,” meaning that we can pray for things but if they’re not a part of God’s will, He won’t answer that. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.” First John 5:14-15 “And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. The major point is if we abide in Jesus’ words, and that means in the gospels where His words are recorded, but no less than the whole Word of God, from Genesis to Revelation, we can ask whatever we wish that is also according to God’s will. It’s where we get the word “adobe” or “home” or “dwelling” from and the word adobe means “a brick of mud and stray.” These materials closely resemble those used by the Israelites under their Egyptian bondage where they made bricks, but later without straw provided. The Apostle John wrote that “ the Word became flesh and dwelt among us” (John 1:14) or “tabernacled with us” (Greek “skēnoō”) which reminds me of the tent in the wilderness where God dwelt among His people in the tabernacle. The Greek word used for “abide” is “menō” and this means “to remain” or stay with. What does Jesus mean by saying we must abide in Him and only then may we ask whatever we wish? We know enough of the Bible to understand that we must pray according to the will of God. John 15:7 “If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.”
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