PRAYERS NOT ANSWERED 2: NOT PRAYING IN THE WILL OF GOD

(Message by Tanny Keng)

1. Prayers Not Answered

Matthew 7:11  
“If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!” 

a) This verse tells us that God is ready to answer our prayers and supply our needs.  So why are all our prayers not answered?  Why does it seem that God sometimes does not hear us?  What is going on when it seems like our prayers are not getting any higher than the ceiling?

2. Not praying in the will of God  

1 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.  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.“

a) It is so important to keep our relationship with God active and alive at all times. When we do so, we are more resistant to the temptations we face every day, and our prayer life will be focused on the things that God wants them focused on.  Not only will we pray according to His will, we will structure our entire lives around Him. 

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