Prayer is the only way to move God's heart and show us grace. Prayer is this only way, but in fact, those who have prayed know that it is not easy to receive a response. Therefore, there are several conditions for a quick response with a full prayer. Scholars who studied George Mueller, who received 50,000 prayer responses, found six principles in his prayers. He first had confidence in the contribution of Jesus, the source of the blessing, secondly repented of confessing all sins that came to his mind before praying, and thirdly, he prayed based on the words with a firm belief in the words of God. Fourthly, he had the purpose of following the will of God, not his will, and fifthly, he had the persistence to trust and wait for God, and sixthly, he had the delicacy of praying for small and trivial things. Therefore, we also have principles to follow in order to give full prayer and receive a response from God.
1. We must repent of our sins
The barrier between God and us in prayer is a sin. Sin is the greatest obstacle between us and God. Therefore, repentance for sins to become transportation with God. Isaiah 59:1 verse 2 states, "It is neither too short to save Yahweh's hands nor too deaf to hear, but only because your sins have divided between you and your God, covering his face so that he does not hear from you." Therefore it is very important to repent of your sins.
First, between God and us, God will never tolerate the sin of serving God other than himself. Second, God never wants to bow to an idol. No matter how beautiful a work of art is in the world, if you consider it an icon and bow to it, God will not tolerate it. Third, God does not allow words that damage God's authority. It is not acceptable to say things that insult God's name, insult him with jokes, and lose authority. Fourth, God wants to keep the Sunday holy, work for six days, serve the Lord for seven days, and keep it as a day of worship. This is a promise that must be kept between God and man. Crimes against these things do not turn God's mind. You must repent.
The following are sins committed among our neighbors. Family members, parents, children, and brothers are already neighbors in our lives. At the same time, we live with many people in our neighborhood, and we must repent and forgive each other for the sins committed between our neighbors before going out to the Lord. Maga 11:25 states, "Forgive anyone when you stand and pray. Forgive me, and tell me that your father in heaven will also forgive you for your faults." You must forgive your neighbors when they repent for their sins, so when I repent, God forgives my sins. He said, "Forgive me seventy or seven times, seventy or seven times, because I come and repent for my sins."
I must repent of my sins if I commit disobedience. This is a personal and personal sin. If there is corruption in my personality and it appears and hurts someone, it becomes a sin. In Romans 1:29, verse 31 states, "Sayo is full of injustice, ugliness, greed, evil, murder, conflict, fraud, and evil. Slandering. He is the one who hates, insults, he is the one who seeks evil. He is the one who defies his parents, he is the one who hates God, he is the one who gives up on him, he is the one who gives up on him, he is the one who gives up on him, he is the one who is cruel." Such grossly dirty things are hidden in us. These things usually hide behind us, but they appear when we run into something. We must repent and make our own decisions about these sins.
We must repent of the sins of greed and greed. James 1:15 says, "When greed is conceived, sin is born, and sin is grown, it results in death." James 1:1, verse 3 states, "Where among you the fight comes from? Isn't it from the desire to fight in your place? You fight and fight because you cannot get greedy, kill, and envy. You do not save what you do not get. You do not get it, because you do not get it, and even if you seek it, you do not get it. When greed and greed come into your mind, you commit sin in order to achieve it. Greed says what you want beyond your means, and greed is the same. When greed and greed are in your heart, you must repent and seek what you truly need before God.
We must repent of the sins of arrogance and arrogance. In Proverbs 21:4, he said, "It is sinful to have high eyes, to have pride in heart, to have a wicked man," and in Proverbs 28:13, he wrote, "Those who conceal their sins cannot be punished, but those who surrender and abandon their sins will be treated with pity." God is not pleased with those who pretend not to have sinned because they are arrogant and arrogant, and come forward with a brazen face. However, those who repent are pitied, forgiving, and saving by God.
Can any of us say, "I am not guilty"? He is a self-deceptionist. That adds to the sin of lying again. If we confess our sins, God will forgive us, and if we excuse and hide our sins, God will not forgive us. Sin causes great problems between God and us. Therefore, it is really important to repent of sins. Also, when repenting for sins, do not make it easy with your mouthfuls, but shed tears before God. Because God not only listens to our prayers, but also sees our tears. When we pray in tears, God is pleasing and comforting our sorrows.
2. You must know the covenant of God
We need to know the covenant of God in order to receive a prayer response. Minsu-gi 23:19 states, "God is not a man, so he does not lie, and he has no regrets because it is not a life." In addition, in Matthew 5:18, it is written that "I tell you the truth, until the heaven and earth are gone, every single point of the law will never be lost, and everything will be accomplished." We can pray boldly only when we pray with words because we know that the word of God will never disappear. When we pray, doubts arise because we pray to achieve what is impossible with human thought. Suspect arises from human senses, and doubts arise because the devil comes and continues to attack. When doubts arise, when they pray, "It has been recorded in the words, but say in the Bible, I pray according to the words." We know that Jesus also used words to confront the demons. Therefore, when we pray, we must stand on the thoughts of the words rather than sticking to our thoughts. Therefore, Isaiah 55:8:9 says, "This is because my thoughts are different from yours, and my path is different from yours. Just as heaven is higher than the earth, my path is higher than yours, and my thoughts are higher than yours." God's thoughts about us are not calamities, but blessings, and many ideas that give hope. God wants us to have a good soul, everything is good, and life is abundant through the process of the Jesus cross. We must accept his thoughts correctly and save them according to God's will.
In John 15:7, "If you live in me and my words live in you, save whatever you want, and you will achieve it." We said that if we believe in Jesus, serve the Lord, read the Bible, and if the promise of the word is in our hearts, we will hold on to the word and pray for anything. You have to pray for faith in this way that God will be moved. Save by faith and do not doubt it. Faith comes from hearing, and hearing is due to the word of Christ. Therefore, it is absolutely necessary for us to realize the word and hold it in our hearts and pray. In Rome 4:20, we say, "There is no faith, so we are solid with faith, and we are confident that we will honor God and achieve the promise we made." It is important to hold on to the word of God and persistently hold on to that promise.
3. Move on with determination, persistence and faith
Once we have prayed, we must not leave with the determination, persistence, and faith of immortality and retreat. Once you have started, you have to bite and hang on to the end. If you persistently endure and endure until God directly says, "No. You can't respond," God will respond. If you look at Luke 18:3:8, there is a widow in a city, and she suffered unfairness. There was no one to help, and because of the unfairness, she came to the presiding judge in tears and pleaded with him. The presiding judge looked closely and saw that the widow had no background, no money, and no ability. So I ignored it. However, even when the widow went to work and left work, she sat there again, "pay back her grudge against my enemies," and continued to sing in spring, summer, autumn, and winter. So later, the presiding judge was unable to sleep because this woman appeared in his dream and the dream site was noisy. Finally, the presiding judge said, "No matter how many times I have no money and no energy, I come and call her day and night, but I can't stand it because it's annoying to call her. It is a metaphor that he solved this woman's problem by saying, "I will solve the problem in order to gain stability in my heart." Isn't God better than this unjust judge? God loves us. God responds quickly when he comes and cries out day and night. Therefore, like the widow's prayer, we have to think about and wait with a dream in our hearts to receive a response with persistence of conviction. The mother who conceived a young baby is not discouraged that a young baby will not be born immediately. Just as we wait until we grow up, we have to hold it in our hearts and wait until our prayers are answered. You must not wait still, but rather intensively with this widow. If you call out to God from time to time, you will surely receive a response.
In Hebrew 10:36, verse 38, "You need patience to receive what you have promised after you have done God's will, so in a moment my righteousness will come, and you will not delay. My righteousness will live by faith, and my heart will not be pleased with him if I step back." We were called to go forward, but not to retreat. We were called to succeed, not to fail. If you leave it to God and accompany him with God, you must not step back because God will hold and hold hands. Therefore, faith and patience are what we need most when we pray to God and move on. We have to endure. If we endure, the history of God will surely occur.
4. Overflowing your appreciation
We must be grateful when we pray so as not to be discouraged. We must consider and thank God for the grace he has given us. As it is recorded in Psalm 50:23, "Those who offer thanks to you make me movie; I will show God's salvation to those who do his deeds right," we must be grateful for the grace we have already received. God's thoughts on us are the Gospel of Five and the Three Blessings. It is God's thoughts to give sin and to forgive the breakdown and to give the Holy Spirit, to cure the disease and to give Abraham's blessing to make him prosperous. God's thoughts are to give a resurrection eternal heaven, and God's thoughts are to receive a whole population while living on this earth, to obtain good, strong, and alive, but to be abundant. Therefore, we must thank God. Positive thoughts, positive thoughts, and gratitude must be overflowing in the heart. And we must remember and thank the old days when we received them after thinking about the responses you gave us in the past.
God rejoices in offering thanksgiving and feels cinematic through him. In Golosae 2:6:7, he writes, "So you have received Christ Jesus primarily, so do it in him, but take root in it, and let it be established, stand firmly in faith and overflow with gratitude as you have learned." There is no benefit in resentment, complaining, or lamenting before God. Thanking God is the way to get closest to God. The devil makes us resent, complain, and sigh. Since God loves and blesses Job, the devil comes and says, "Isn't it because he gives you a blessing and gives you a blessing to thank and praise him? Right now, if you take away children from Job, take away material from him, let him break up between a couple, and make your body sick, you will turn around and swear." The devil thinks that we humans always want to go out for good when we go before God and swear if we don't give him benefit. In fact, many people do so at the temptation of the devil. It is human nature to resent and sigh when you are not answered by prayer and blessed by God. However, Job never resented God when such tests and troubles were faced. He confessed that he deserved to be angry because he was blessed, and he did not resent God with his lips. That's what God rejoiced greatly. When the faith grows up, there are fewer resentments and complaints. People who have not grown up in faith are easily resentful, complaining, and lamenting. An adult believer thanks and praises God more, and the more he does, the more he rejoices and responds to many things.
5. The weapon of the fight is the confession of the lips
Confessions of lips are very important when we pray. A man ties them up with his lips and releases them with his lips. For God is God who talks as if there is something that does not exist. Confessions of our lips are to talk as if there is something that does not exist. In Rome 4:17, he writes, "It is like what has been recorded, I have established you as the ancestor of many nations, so what he believed is that God saves the dead and calls what is not there." Therefore, the words of our mouths determine our fate and have the power to create the environment. Therefore, the weapon of our fight is the confession of our lips, so we have to pray and then believe in what we received and confess with our lips.
If you confess what you don't have, that's how God history. And as stated in Gospel of Maga 11:23, "I tell you that truthfully, I will tell you to drop this mountain and throw it into the sea, and if you don't doubt it in your heart, it will be as it is." We must command what is not present in a creative declaration. Therefore, the outcome of our prayers depends on the confession of our lips. If we verbally admit that what we have prayed for God will be accomplished, we will have a great victory.
God wants us to pray and save and live with God's help. God said that you are not saved because you are not saved. We do not enjoy many blessings that we can enjoy because we do not save. God wants us to save. He said, "Please save me, I will find you, I will find you, I will knock on the door, I will find you, I will find you, I will find you, and I will open to those who knock on the door." Let's save and pray to God in whatever way we can. If you save big things and small things, believe in what is not in front of God, confess with your lips, admit it, and command, God's history begins to happen. I pray in the name of the Lord that good things will always happen and that an amazing history of accompanying God will occur in all our lives.
-Prayers-
God, our father, we must never retreat and use all our determination and whole heart to pray for our response. Please help us to have prayer of faith. Help our saints receive what God has in store through prayer and overflow to reveal God's glory to many. What we do not get today is not to save, but what we do not get even if we seek it is to use it as lust, so please help us pray to God to use it for glory.
I pray in the name of Jesus.
Amen.
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