The fellowship of prayer is an awesome experience for those who have trained themselves to plunge into it hungrily. For others it is a very harrowing and dry experience, and yet much is expected, and many have a wiki-load of unanswered prayers. But they never stop praying. They still hope that God will somehow still answer. A sort of gamble. But prayer is not supposed to be like that. Prayer is not a gamble. Prayer is definite. Prayer is specific. Prayers are intended to be answered. Prayer is like a light switch. You press it, you should get results. Every time Jesus prayed he got results. He prayed the right way. His prayer works. If our prayers don't work, then it's possible that we are doing it all wrong.
What do we need to do to get answered prayers. The answers are quite simple. The answer is given to us by God himself, the very person who answers prayers. According to him, our prayers must:
1. Be according to his will. Remember that famous scripture in 1 John 5:14? If we pray according to his will thingy. It's true. Pray out of his will and you are on your own. Relax, it is not an authoritarian will, and he is not some evil maniacal white haired autocrat as you imagined. Whatever it is you are praying for just go through the Bible and see if there is any provision in there for you to have it, 99% of the time it is always there, so you are in luck.
2. Our prayer must be heartfelt. This means that you gotta totally be desirous of what you are praying about to have it. Remember another famous scripture James 5:16? The effecetive fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. The amplified translation puts it as The effective fervent heartfelt continued prayer of a righteous man availeth much, tremendous in its working.
I feel like I am quoting this improperly. Compare my re-quote with the actual stuff which says The earnest (heartfelt, continued) prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available [dynamic in its working].
I literally cannot finish explaining that. If you read it well and paint the picture correctly, your prayer that is heartfelt and continued, meaning you don't give up on your request, it says it works like an Ahmadinejad (Iranian president who wants to kill the rest of us Christians) nuclear bomb. Do you know what a dynamo is? It is energy that continues to reproduce itself and is self-sustaining. That is what your prayer does. Tell me why you won't get an answer. You will!
3. Our prayers must be specific and must not conflict with certain immutable principles. How badly do I need to stress this? Remember Elijah? That dude stuck to his one singular payer point till he got results. It can be a little tricky though. Bottomline is, don't ask for a black coloured CRV today and tomorrow you say it should be carbon green. No. Don't appear unserious to the spirit beings (angels) who are going to be working their asses off trying to make your request translate into physical stuff in the human world with all its dynamic complications and bottlenecks. You see, if what you are praying about is something 100% absolutely within your sphere of control, then stop praying and go do it. If it's something that has terrible consequences like trying to deactivate a bomb, ok, well, that is scary stuff, but you need to go in faith after taking into considerations safety measures. Sweet Jesus, it involves you alone, you will go and come back in one piece. Now if it goes kaboom, sorry, well it's no loss afterall because you will be in heaven anyways looking down on the rest of us and hoping we make it too.
Jokes apart. What that means is that, if your request will involve the changing of the minds of several people and sets of actions and processes need to be taken, your result may be a little delayed, that is the idea of the continued prayer and the dynamo effect. And you need to go table your requests again before those people, don't wait for the extra miracle of them bringing up the subject again and favouring you. Go again, and table it. See if their minds have changed. If it hasn't, go pray again, wait some more time and go bug the hell out of them. Jesus said about the judge that didn't fear God nor regard man that he got tired of the widow woman pestering him and he had to grant her what she requested (Luke 18:2-6).
If it affects nature, such as the solar sun standing still, you need a very good reason to alter the cosmic laws, so you need to really continue that prayer, because you are trying to change an immutable law of earth's revolution and rotation. That isn't exactly specific, it looks like a single specific thing, but many things will be altered. Except you want to plague the antichrist like Moses did Pharoah, I don't think you should making that kind of prayer request. I for one aren't going to that. I mean, I'll probably die disappointed. There is just no justification for it. There is a classic one I have seen. Here is an open sky convention or crusade coming up, and it's holding right in the middle of the raining seasons, and here you are asking the good Lord to not let it rain. I have seen people who got away with it, but most of the time we rarely do get away with it. Some farmers do need that rain. I have been wet more times in a three piece suit on crusade grounds and almost angry at God for not answering my prayer. Rain beating you and your 5,000+ strong crusade attendees isn't entirely a bad thing. If you are so concerned about that, perhaps you should also consider using an indoor venue, or at worst if you must hold it outside do a mass production of cheap rain coat and sell and make some revenue doing that. We really need to wise up sometimes. So, bro, don't go fighting one of God's immutable principles all in the name of prayer. I cannot guarantee you results. But if you do get results, I will be glad to hear and rejoice in your testimony.
4. Our prayers will always be answered by him. There is no doubt about this. God answers prayers.
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