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A RADICAL PRAYER

INTRODUCTION

AS BELIEVERS OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WE NEED TO KNOW THAT OUR PRAYERS WE PRAY ARE NOT ALWAYS ANSWERED IMMEDIATELY OR TIMELY LIKE WE THINK THEY SHOULD.

BUT WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW THAT GOD IS IN CONTROL AND KNOWS WHAT’S BEST FOR US, AS WELL AS WHAT WE STAND IN NEED OF.

A RADICAL PRAYER IS ONE WHO EXERCISE THE POWER OF BEING BOLD AND PERSISTENT.

IN THE BOOK OF MATTHEW CHAPTER 7 JESUS CONTINUES HIS TEACHINGS ON THE SERMON ON MOUNT, AND HE INSTRUCT THE JEWISH CHRISTIANS HOW ONE SHOULD APPROACH GOD IN PRAYER.

MATTHEW 7:7-8 ASK, AND IT SHALL BE GIVEN YOU; SEEK, AND YE SHALL FIND; KNOCK, AND IT SHALL BE OPENED UNTO YOU:

MATTHEW 7:8 FOR EVERY ONE THAT ASKETH RECEIVETH; AND HE THAT SEEKETH FINDETH; AND TO HIM THAT KNOCKETH IT SHALL BE OPENED.

TODAY I WANT TO DISCUSS THE REMEDY OF PRAYER.

WE MUST ASK

WE MUST SEEK

WE MUST KNOCK

ASK IMPLIES A SIMPLE PETITION. MEANING A REQUEST MADE FOR SOMETHING DESIRED, ESPECIALLY A RESPECTFUL OR HUMBLE REQUEST, AS TO A SUPERIOR OR TO ONE OF THOSE IN AUTHORITY.

THE VERY REASON WHY SOME OF US DO NOT GET WHAT WE REQUEST FOR , IS BECAUSE WE ASK FOR THINGS THAT DO NOT PERTAIN TO OUR CURRENT NEEDS. GOD PROMISED US THAT HE WOULD SUPPLY ALL OUR NEEDS ACCORDING TO HIS RICHES IN GLORY BY CHRIST JESUS.

AND IN ORDER FOR GOD TO MOVE UPON OUR PRAYER’S WE MUST PRAY HIS WORD BACK TO HIM. GOD IS MOVED BY THOSE WHO PUT HIM FIRST OVER THEMSELVES.

ASKING IS A CONTINUOUS ACTION, THE BIBLE SAID THAT WE NEED TO PRAY WITHOUT CEASING. A RADICAL PRAYER DON’T GIVE UP BECAUSE HIS PRAYERS WAS NOT ANSWERED, BUT HE CONFIDENTLY WITH PATIENCE WAITS FOR GOD’S ANSWER KNOWING GOD HAS HIS BEST INTEREST IN MIND.

1 JOHN 5:14 AND THIS IS THE CONFIDENCE THAT WE HAVE IN HIM, THAT, IF WE ASK ANY THING ACCORDING TO HIS WILL, HE HEARETH US:

THE PROBLEM WITH MANY OF US WHEN WE PRAY WE DO NOT ASK GOD IF IT’S IN HIS WILL, WE ARE SO CONCERN ABOUT WHAT WE NEED. WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT GOD WILL NOT GIVE US ANYTHING THAT WILL SEPARATE US FROM HIM.

SEEK: MEANS LOOKING FOR SOMETHING OR TRYING TO FIND SOMETHING.

TO SEEK GOD YOU MUST SPEND TIME WITH HIM. YOU MUST LABOR WITH HIM IN PRAYER, WHICH CAUSES YOU TO BE CONSISTENT IN YOUR PRAYER LIFE .

WE MUST PURSUE GOD INSTEAD OF OUR OWN DESIRES OR GOALS. IN ORDER FOR GOD TO REWARD US OPENLY WE MUST PUT GOD FIRST.

MATTHEW 6:33 BUT SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD, AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS; AND ALL THESE THINGS SHALL BE ADDED UNTO YOU.

THE KEY TO AN ANSWERED PRAYER IS OBEDIENCE. GOD WILL NEVER WITHHOLD ANYTHING FROM THOSE WHO WALK UPRIGHT BEFORE HIM.

THEN WE MUST KNOCK, MEANING SHOWING PERSEVERANCE IN SPITE OF HINDERANCE.

TOO MANY OF US DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH PATIENCE WHEN A DOOR IS CLOSE IN OUR LIVES . WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW THAT IF ONE DOOR SHUT , GOD IS ABLE TO OPEN ANOTHER DOOR THAT NO MAN CAN SHUT. CLOSED DOORS IN YOUR LIVES DO NOT MEAN THAT GOD HAVE NOT HEARD YOUR PRAYERS, BUT WHAT IT COULD MEAN IS IT IS JUST NOT YOUR TIME. WHEN THIS HAPPEN YOU NEED TO BE HUMBLE AND KEEP ON KNOCKING UNTIL GOD POUR YOU OUT A BLESSING THAT YOU DO NOT HAVE ROOM ENOUGH FOR IT. THOSE WHO ARE RADICAL IN THEIR PRAYERS WILL NOT STOP UNTIL GOD SHOWS UP.

HAVE YOU BEING PRAYING FOR SOMETHING OR SOMEONE AND IT SEEMS LIKE NOTHING HAVE CHANGED.

I WANT YOU TO KNOW DON’T STOP ASKING , SEEKING OR KNOCKING BECAUSE GOD HEARETH US WHEN WE ARE IN HIS WILL.