KNOW GOD'S WILL !

KNOW GOD'S WILL ! : Many times we pray for things we don't need and are not good for us. I heard of a man in world war two who pray for God to move him from one concentration camp to another just a few miles away. He prayed and God answered his prayer. He was very happy, but it was short lived. In a few weeks the Allied forces came into the camp he left and liberated all the prisons. He stayed two more years and the other camp. He used his faith and his prayer was answered, but it prolonged the problem. First of all, you need to determine what is the will of God. When you know God's will (God's word), you know that God is going to hear you. The word says if God he is you, you will get what you ask. (1 John 5:14-15) is simply saying that if you get an audience with your Father, you will get your prayer answered. Sometimes we think the Lord must have heard us because we have goosebumps running up and down our back. That has nothing to do with it. Because that is all in the natural ! You may get some feelings [and that's all right], but don't base your faith on feeling. What if you don't get any feelings at all ? That's all right, too. That doesn't change the Word of God. . . "Let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that way everything is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways." (James 1:6-8). You receive because you believe God's Word and acted upon His will. Goosebumps will never produce any answer to prayer--- you're feeling that God has heard you will not produce any answer to prayer--- faith will ! And the object and basis of your faith should be the Word of God. Faith in God only comes by hearing and hearing by The Word of God (Romans 10:17).