SEVEN STEPS TO ANSWERED PRAYER (PART 2) !

SEVEN STEPS TO ANSWERED PRAYER (PART 2). STEP 7: GIVE GOD THE PRAISE ! (Philippians 4:6). "Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God." The words "be careful for nothing" mean "in nothing be anxious." The Amplified Bible says, "Do not fret or have any anxiety about anything." As long as we fret and are anxious, praying and fasting want do any good. This verse says "with thanksgiving," and this comes after praying about the matter. Remember now, The Word of God is your answer ! We thank God for the answer after we have prayed. The final step to answered prayer is to live your heart to God constant in gratitude and increasing praise for what He has done and for what He is doing for you now. A word of caution, there will be some opposition from the enemy and your flesh as well as the world. Make every prayer concerning your need a statement of faith and praise, not a statement of unbelief. You can do this just as easily as you can think thoughts of doubt and unbelief. Thinking Faith thoughts and speaking faith words lead the heart out of defeat into victory ! Do not accept defeat. Do not be denied. It is your family right --- your redemption right --- to have what God has promised. It is yours, and it will come. If you will fight the good fight of faith ! Accept it, and it will become a reality. Andrew Murray said, "it is not good taste to ask God for the same thing over and over again. If, when you do pray again for something that hasn't manifested or materialized, don't pray for it in the same way, because that would be unbelief. Remind God that you asked for it and what His Word says, this is putting God in remember. Tell Him you are accepting it. Then thank Him for it." Often people undo their prayer ! They get into unbelief and stay there, as if they were spinning their wheels. The believer who practices the seven steps to answered prayer will discover great victory in his or her prayer life. "If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you" (John 15:7).