{"id":12002,"date":"2024-09-19T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/satchurch.lv\/?p=12002"},"modified":"2016-08-22T12:50:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T09:50:53","slug":"prayer-petitioning-god-receiving-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/prayer-petitioning-god-receiving-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer is petitioning God and receiving from Him"},"content":{"rendered":"Welcome, dear friends! Grace and peace to you from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ!\r\n\r\nWe are still talking about a very important topic: \u201cOrganization of effective prayer life<\/em><\/strong>\u201d. Let\u2019s discuss some more aspects of effective prayer.\r\n
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  1. Prayer is petitioning God and receiving from Him.<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\nI want to add the word \u2018receiving\u2019, because Jesus says that everyone who asks receives. When we talk about prayer then the first thing we need to do is to ask God to reveal His will to us.\r\n
    \u00abAsk, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened\u00bb\u00a0(Mathew, 7:7-8).<\/h6>\r\nThis passage of Scripture reveals three levels of praying. I really want you to see it. There are quite many places in the Bible where God has made known to us His desires and His will and promises. We can\u00a0ask<\/strong>\u00a0in prayer when the will of God has been revealed and made known.\r\n
    \u00abNow this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him\u00bb\u00a0(1 John, 5:14-15).<\/h6>\r\nYou cannot ask anything that comes to your mind; you must ask according to His will. Many people do not know this truth and imagine that they can ask anything; they they complain that prayer does not work. No, that is not true! Prayer works! But it is essential what you ask Godi n prayer! If what you ask is not God\u2019s will, then God won\u2019t give it to you. And He will not give it to you, because He loves you.\r\n\r\nBut if we ask according to His will, then we know that He hears us. And if He hears us, then we know that we receive what we ask for. How do we know that God hears us? Where do we find this confidence to ask Him? Confidence and boldness in prayer comes when we know from God\u2019s Word that our petition complies with His will. It applies to material, spiritual and every other area of our lives. If God says that His will for us is that we mature in Christ, then we can pray for our spiritual growth and be confident that we will get it, because God has explicitly revealed it in His Word.\r\n\r\nLet\u2019s look at one more component of effective prayer life.\r\n
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    1. Prayer is seeking of God\u2019s will.<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\nLet\u2019s look at the next part of Mathew (7:7):\u00a0\u00ab…seek, and you will find\u00bb<\/em><\/strong>. You must not only ask, but also\u00a0seek<\/strong>. What is prayer?\u00a0Prayer is the search for God\u2019s will<\/strong>. Sometimes the will of God is not totally revealed to us. If God\u2019s will is not revealed to you, but you know that you can ask and be confident of the answer only when you know God\u2019s will, then prayer moves to another level; it is the level of seeking God\u2019s will. In this case you are asking God for His perspective on your need. God says in the book of Isaiah that if you ask Him you will find Him, if you search for Him with your whole heart.\r\n
      \u201cThen you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart\u201d\u00a0(Jeremiah, 29:12-13).<\/h6>\r\nSearch for God in prayer! Seek those things that are above! Search out the will of God! And you will surely find!\r\n\r\nGod bless you!\r\n\r\nPastor Rufus Ajiboye","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00abAsk, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened\u00bb (Mathew, 7:7-8).\r\n\r\nThis passage of Scripture reveals three levels of praying. I really want you to see it. There are quite many places in the Bible where God has made known to us His desires and His will and promises. We can ask in prayer when the will of God has been revealed and made known.","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-word"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":12,"label":"Daily Word"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/depositphotos_180616874-free-stock-photo-adorable-little-child-holding-giftbox-e1665339351106.webp",600,400,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Pastor Rufus Ajiboye","author_link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/author\/rufus-ajiboye\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":12,"name":"Daily Word","slug":"daily-word","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":12,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","parent":0,"count":650,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":12,"category_count":650,"category_description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","cat_name":"Daily Word","category_nicename":"daily-word","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38770,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12002\/revisions\/38770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}