Asking and Receiving
Last Sunday, the Lord had put on my heart to call a 30-Day prayer focus for revival. We are on day four as of today. I thought it would be appropriate to revisit some notes I had from some time ago about asking and receiving answer to prayer...
Grounds for Asking and Receiving
The true ground for prayer and its answer is to be
born again and have the right relationship to God. Only true, saved men have
the right to ask and receive anything that they want from God. Sinners who rebel and refuse to surrender their
lives to God and become reconciled to Him have no true ground of approach to
God. They have no foundation for their faith. God, many times in His mercy,
helps sinners and hears their cry of despair, but He is not obligated to do for
them what He has promised until they obey Him. It is merely because He wants to
prove to the sinner His love and mercy even though he is a rebel.
Paul said, the goodness of God leadeth thee to
repentance and God commandeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners
Christ died for us (Ro 2:4; Ro 5:8 With proper relationship with God it becomes our
family right, legal right, redemptive right, gospel right, needful right, and
creative right to ask and receive anything and everything that the Father has
promised His own children.
There should be no question as to personal rights or
the outcome of prayer according to those rights, for all things belong to God
and His children, and His sons will inherit all things in the end when rebellion
is finally put down (Ro 8:17-18; 1Peter 1:2-5; Rev 21:7).
In Him,
Pastor Norman
Some further notes:
1. Commands
to Pray (2 Chr 16:11; 2 Chr 7:14; Psa 105:4; Isa 55:6; Phil4: 6)
2. Time to Pray. Daily in the morning Ps 5:3, Ps
88:13. Twice daily Ps 88:1; Thrice daily: Ps 55:17; Dan 6:10
3.The Purpose of Prayer. The chief end of all prayer should be to glorify God
and to make full our joy. (John 14:13-15; John 16-24)
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