The Checklist for Answered Prayer 6-10
If your prayers aren’t being answered, here’s another part of the checklist for understanding why;
6. Answers to Prayer involve Testing
- Abraham was asked to sacrifice Isaac, then was stopped
- Testing is not termination
- Job lost everything, then was restored
- Testing is not punishment.
- Peter failed his test, then preached on The Day of Pentecost
- Testing gets another chance
Answers to Prayer require passing your test
7. Answers to Prayer involve Purpose
- Character building Rom.8:27-9
- Lesson learning
- Preparation
- Other, Rom.1:13 “I purposed to come to you, ( but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you…”
Answers to prayer require understanding God’s purposes
8. Answers to Prayer involve Faith
- Unbelief- yours, aborts answers to prayer.
- “whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.” Mk.11:24 NIV
- Mary “treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart ” while the promise was developing in her
- Answers to prayer develop within us
Answers to prayer require nurturing in the womb of faith
9. Answers to Prayer involve Faith
- Unbelief-theirs, kills answers to your prayers
- Joseph’s brothers
- “Jesus could do no mighty work there because of their unbelief ” Mk.6:5 NIV
Answers to prayer must be guarded as they develop
10. Answers to Prayer involve The Invisible
- Elisha’s servant’s eyes had to be opened to see the answer
- Thomas, “until I see, I won’t believe”
- The invisible hardening of Pharaoh’s heart
- Job’s scenes “behind the scenes”
- What we see can contradict answers to prayer
- The Book of Revelation reveals God’s invisible control behind the chaos
- Paul prayed “the eyes of your understanding be enlightened ” Eph.1:18
Answers to prayer require spiritual eyesight to see them
Continued in The Checklist for Answered Prayer Part 3