If ye abide in me and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
John 15:7
In this chapter, you will discover five other important steps to receiving hundred per cent answers to your prayers.
4. THE FOURTH STEP TO ONE HUNDRED PER CENT
ANSWERED PRAYER IS: CONFESS YOUR SINS.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
1 John 1:8
To approach God without the consciousness of your sin is a mistake.
A very important scripture to remember is found in Isaiah.
Behold, the LORD’S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
Isaiah 59:1-2
God is cut off from our lives because of sin. One of the first things you must do when you pray is to confess your sins: both the ones you know and the ones you are not conscious of. Do not let your iniquities separate you from God. God can reach you when the blood of Jesus has cleansed you.
5. THE FIFTH STEP TO ONE HUNDRED PER CENT ANSWERED
PRAYER IS: ABIDE IN CHRIST.
If ye abide in me and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
John 15:7
Abiding in Christ is an important key to receiving any type of response from the Lord. If you do not stay in the house, do not expect God to answer any of your prayers. A hundred per cent answered prayer is for people who stay in Christ and in His church.
When you wander away from God, you become like the prodigal son. You are far from your Father.
The prodigal son did not stay in the house. He moved out and lived in a far country. He fellowshipped with harlots and ate with pigs.
The only help he could get was from pigs! So he “asked the pigs” for some of their food. The pigs had compassion on the prodigal son and they gave him some of their food. Even if his father had wanted to give him food, there was no way he could have. He was simply out of the reach of his father. The prodigal son ended up in the custody of a man who put him to work with swine.
When you do not stay in the house, you will end up with the pigs.
Perhaps as you read this book, you realize that being far from God has not helped you. It is time to come back home. Staying in fellowship is an important key to receiving the blessings of the Lord.
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another…
1 John 1:7
There are some people who think they can be good Christians without going to church. You are deceiving yourself! If you are walking in the light, you will have fellowship with others who are in the light. That is what this Scripture is telling you.
Are you in the darkness or in the light? If you are in the light you will go to church and fellowship with other Christians.
6. THE SIXTH STEP TO ONE HUNDRED PER CENT ANSWERED
PRAYER IS: LET THE WORD OF GOD ABIDE IN YOU.
It is important for God’s Word to be in you. God does not do anything outside His Word. God’s Word will direct you in your relationship with Him. God’s Word directs you in prayer. God does not answer foolish prayers; neither does He do things against His Word.
If you want to get one hundred per cent answers to your prayers, stay in the Word.
Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
Psalms 119:133
7. THE SEVENTH STEP TO ONE HUNDRED PER CENT
ANSWERED PRAYER IS: OBEY THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE
LORD.
And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
1 John 3:22
This Scripture is very clear. God answers the prayers of people who obey Him. If you are living a life of disobedience, God will not honour your prayers. If you had a disobedient son who did not please you, would you just give him anything he asked for?
Certainly not! Neither does your heavenly Father answer the prayers of disobedient children. If God has called you to the ministry, just obey! Your obedience opens the door for answers to your prayers.
It is clear that God answers the prayers of righteous people.
Become a righteous man and God will answer your prayers.
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. THE effectual fervent PRAYER OF A RIGHTEOUS MAN AVAILETH MUCH.
James 5:16
8. THE EIGHTH STEP TO ONE HUNDRED PER CENT
ANSWERED PRAYER IS: BE A FRUIT-BEARING CHRISTIAN.
Ye have not chosen me but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
John 15:16
God has linked answered prayer to fruit bearing. This Scripture proves that answered prayer is directly connected to the fruit that a person has.
I realize that many Christians do not know why they are alive. Let me tell you something right now. If you are a born-again Christian, the only reason why you are being kept alive is so that you can bear fruit. After all, Heaven is guaranteed.
You have a place in Heaven after you are born again. What else do you need? Earthly treasures are transient and useless. We are being kept alive on this earth so that we can win souls for Him. God wants every Christian to bear fruit.
One thing that many Christians do not know is that God has linked bearing fruit to answering prayer. The Scripture above is very clear! God will be happy to answer the prayer of someone who bears fruit. What do you do for God? What fruit are you bearing? If you sit in spiritual barrenness just wanting God to answer prayers,
you may wait forever. Some people just know how to say, “Give me!
Give me! Give me!” But what are you contributing to God’s kingdom?
There is a link between answered prayer and bearing fruit. Receive this revelation into your spirit and begin to bear fruit from today. Do something in your church. Do not just sit there and watch. Stop being an observer. There is no blessing in being a spectator or a commentator. The blessings of one hundred per cent answered prayer are for Christians who bear fruit.
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