Do God answer
prayers? Yes. I am amazed that people who are worshiping God are not able to receive
answers from God when they pray. Last week, I talked about how God gave us
brain so that we can give him rest. I am not saying that for God to rest we
have to stop calling on Him, but what I meant is that God has given us all we
need to live a holy, healthy, prosperous, and successful life here on earth.
When God created man He gave Him everything he needed, and when man offended
Him He didn’t take back anything but said man will have to soil his hands (work)
before getting something to eat. If you are a Christian and wants God to answer
your prayers or the prayers others prayed to Him on your behalf, then you must
know how to pray to God and those praying for you must understand why God does
not answer prayers too. In Mathew 6:9-13, 14-15, Jesus Christ who is the reason
for our Christianity told us how to pray. Jesus gave us guidelines and steps or
the sequence for our prayers. Below is a brief explanation of Mathew 6:9-15 which
is the steps to pray:
1.
We should thank God, honour Him and His name.
2.
We should ask for heavenly and godly present
here on earth
3.
We should ask God for the things we need today
or for our daily provision.
4.
We should ask God to forgive us and make us
clean and acceptable to Him once again in case we wronged Him unknowingly. And reaffirm
before His holy presence that we have forgiven those who wronged us.
5.
Then we beg Him not allow us to fall into temptation
when they come tempting us, and deliver us from our enemies.
If we pray as
explained above and God does not answer then the prayers are not answered because
of
1.
Sin – fornication, adultery, stealing, cheating,
covetousness, idolatry, hatred, jealousy, etc., Isaiah 59:1-3, Exodus 20:1-17, James
4:17, Isaiah 1:10-20.
2.
Prayers are not made in the right way – If you
think that God will only hear your prayers when you shout, or when you kept repeating
it, or when you pray for a long time or fast for all the time then you need to
have a rethink, Mathew 6:5-7.
3.
The right things are not asked during prayers –
if your prayers are, God do this or that for me, God kill my enemies, Holy Ghost
fire those stealing my destiny, God give me jeep or mansions, God I need your
favour, God bless me, then you should have a rethink, Mathew 6:8, 25-34, Daniel
9:21, James 4:3.
4.
Prayers are not made with faith – When you pray
and it is not answered immediately, you should not lose hope. Faith is
believing God through His own words and knowing the true word of God is by
knowledge and this knowledge is gotten by learning through studying the bible, Hebrews
11:1, James 1:6. Faith is the ability to wait upon God until the time of your
death, not to wait for one month, then you change your mind and start to look
for alternatives. and
5.
Gods glory is given to man when prayers are
answered – When God answered your prayers, don’t say if not for this man of
god, for this minister, for this pastor, for this priest, etc., give God
Almighty the glory for He does not share His glory with anyone Isaiah 60:2, Isaiah
42:8, Isaiah 40:5-8, Exodus 20:5, 1Corinthians 1:31.
God has given
us the right to live, so even if you go to church, pay tithe, sow seed, plant
tree of life, etc., it’s not the reason why you are alive, rich, healthy, etc.
and is not the reason why you must be rich, wealthy, healthy, prosperous, but it’s
because God has created everything and gave it to everybody so that He will
judge us with our works on earth, remember the rain falls on both sinful and
righteous. If you have repented from your evil ways as mentioned above, and are
not guilty of Proverbs 21:13, 1Peter 3:12, then you have become a true son of
God John 1:12. So ask God anything and He will do it for you, therefore, don’t
believe that someone is holding your blessings or tying your destiny. Remember that,
when you pray in accordance to the way Jesus ordered us to pray, the spirit of
God living in you knows how to make up your prayers to God, Romans 8:26-28. Be
careful, all these I prophesy, I declare, I cancelled, I order, I pronounce, on
your behalf may be false. Those prophesies, declaring, ordering, cancelling, have
happened to others when no one had prophesy or declare on their behalf. Live a
sin free life, pray in the right way with right words, ask God the right things,
pray with faith, and give all glory, honour and adoration to God alone, then
your prayers will be answered. Thanks for your time, always read the bible with
deep reasoning and he who has ears let him hear, Mark 4:9. God bless you.
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