Are There Conditions to Answered Prayer?                

The First Purpose of Prayer:                                                    with God himself

Time with God is more important than getting your prayer list answered!

•                           -- believe that God is at work

  But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord
  James 1:6-7

  I prayed to the Lord my God . . .
  Daniel 9:4

•                                that God will                               

  "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
  Matthew 7:7-8

• Be willing to take "No" for an answer

  "Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?
  Matthew 7:9-10

•                                -- Pray in the name of                          

  Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
  John 14:6

• Yielded will --                                                not yours

  This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us--whatever we ask--we know that we have what we asked of him.
  1 John 5:14-15

• Pray without                                               --                                                                   is a big block

  For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.
  Matthew 6:14-15

• Be                                                   

  Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.
  Luke 18:1

Prayer Helps

• Be                                                        

• Reduce                                                             

• Take                           -- seek forgiveness

• Ask, "Does this request match God's                     ?"

• Pray with                               

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