The Prayer God Answers
The Prayer that God Loves to Answer Phil. 1:7-11 “And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve the things that are excellent, in order to be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ; having been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.” When we pray, what is the focus of our requests? James points out that one of the reasons we are powerless in prayer is because we ask with the wrong motives. Our prayers focus on what we want for our pleasure and happiness rather than spiritual transformation (James 4:3). Effective prayer starts with the proper focus. This is not to say that God does not desire us to pray about our personal needs. He invites us to pray about all things and issues in our lives. However, prayer is not alligning God’s will to us, but our will to his. Effective prayer aligns our lives with Christ's will
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