How To Get Answers To Prayer

Prov, 15:8

8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

I. OUR DESIRES MUST BE HIS DESIRES

Colossians 3:1 KJV (WS)

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

1 John 5:14–15 KJV (WS)

And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.

Boldness

Hebrews 4:16 KJV (WS)

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

II. OUR DOUBTS MUST BE REMOVED

Hebrews 12:1 KJV (WS)

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

B. What about that besetting sin?

Men who didn’t believe God lost the blessing.

1 Timothy 2:8 KJV (WS)

I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.

1. Without Discord

2. Without Doubting

James 1:6 KJV (WS)

But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

III. OUR DEBTORS MUST BE FORGIVEN

Matthew 6:14 KJV (WS)

For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:

1. Don’t say, “I will forgive, but I won’t forget”.

2. Don’t say, “I can’t be the same toward him again.”

Matthew 5:23–24 KJV (WS)

Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.

IV. OUR DOORS MUST BE SHUT

Matthew 6:6 KJV (WS)

But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

V. OUR DETERMINATION MUST BE SET

Luke 18:1 KJV (WS)

And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;

A. “And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint”.