The Ability of God--Prayer is a Key ! ! !

THE ABILITY OF GOD---PRAYER IS A KEY: Prayer is a key to heaven's storehouse, but faith unlocks the door. A prayer without faith is like a key without a hand to turn it. In (1 John 5:14–15), we find some great truths about prayer: "And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he hears us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him." If we ask anything according to his word which is God's will for your life, you should have the confidence because you know that he hears you and that you have the petition that you have asked for. Let's read it again and look at some key word. "This is the confidence." Or, this is the faith. We have this confidence in Him, that if we ask any thing according to His will, He hears us. "And if we know that He his us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him." Notice that two key words here are anything and whatsoever. John says you can ask anything that you desire and have whatsoever you ask. If we know that He hears us, we know that we have what so ever we desired of Him. If God hears you, if you get an audience with Him, you already have granted to you as your present possession what you ask. ASKING ACCORDING: Now somebody says, "Yes, but that's if it is the will of God for you to have it." Well, let's look at verse 14 again: This is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing. . . Now why would he say any thing, if it has to be His will before it will work ? Let's say it this way so you can see it, "if you ask according to His will for asking." His Word is His will. This passage is not dealing with God's will for you to have or not to have a certain thing. This is not even involved in this verse of Scripture. Many have thought it was and it has held them in bondage for years. They said, "if I pray for something that is not God's will, then I won't receive it." Therefore, they didn't take time to find the will of God, but prayed saying, "Lord, if it be your will." There is no faith in that prayer. There is no confidence in that prayer. No need of praying that prayer. You are wasting your time. You do not know whether God has heard you, so you cannot release faith in your prayer. All you're doing is getting an emotional high and getting people's attention on how they think you prayed well. That prayer will not produce for you because it does not qualify on the basis of God's rules for asking. Answer prayer is governed by spiritual law (God's Word). (James 1: 5 – 8) "if any of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask of the giving God [who gives] to everyone liberatelly and ungrudgingly, without reproaching or faultfinding, and it will be given him. Only it must be in faith that he asks with no wavering [no hesitating, no doubting]. For the one who wavers [hesitates, doubts] is like the bellowing surge out at sea that is blown hither and thither and tossed by the wind. For truly, let not such a person imagine that he will receive anything [he asked for] from the Lord. [For being as he is] a man of two minds [hesitating, dubious, irresolute], [he is] unstable and unreliable and uncertain about everything [he thinks, feels, decides]." The amplified Bible.