Prayer - Pt 14

How does "just believing" on one hand and the will of God on the other hand relate to effective prayer?

 

Note: The answer will free you from "God bless everyone" prayers and brash, overconfident prayers and will release you to pray confidently for specifics...

Review of Jesus' instructions on how to pray:

  1. Prayer is for those who can and will say "Our Father Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name." For children of God and a worshipper of Him.
  2. Allegiance to His Kingdom.
  3. Submission: a willingness to do His will, whatever.

In light of the third index statement - questions that call for submission to the will of God.

  1. Can I pray for anything and expect it to happen?
  2. Will it happen because I am a child of God?
  3. Will it happen because I believe, ask and am willing to make a positive confession of faith?
  4. What if my prayer is NOT in the will of God?

Set limits? Claim scripture? Set dates? Dealing with wellness/healing?

Compare and note your insights regarding the following:

 

Matthew 21:21 (NASB) And Jesus answered and said to them, "Truly I say to you, if you have faith, and do not doubt, you shall not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' it shall happen. 22 "And all things you ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive."

1John 5:14 (NASB) And this is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 15 And if we know that He hears us [in] whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him.