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5 Steps to Getting Your Prayers Answered!

6/28/2017

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Have you ever prayed and prayed about something and still not get the answer or the breakthrough you so desperately need? 

You read the bible, you pray and even fast from your favorite food just to hear from God.  You can’t seem to understand why God is still not answering you.  Why are you still in this same place you were this time last year?  Everyone you ask about it just says “keep praying”. 
You are just like, huh! I just don’t get it!

Hey, this is not abnormal. 

How to pray effectively is a common question for some Christians.  The solution is found in 5 simple steps.  Many times, we take the first or second step in the process, but miss steps 3 to 5.  Then soon after, you expect God to open the floodgates and blow your mind with answers. 

But listen this will not happen if you miss a step.  Many of you are not clear on these steps because no one has sat you down to teach them to you or you have not studied what the bible says about prayer.  Remember the bible is our blueprint for life.  Your answer and direction is found in scripture.  We just make it difficult by attempting to mix the “world’s” perspective of prayer with what God says we must do. 

Now, grab a notepad and pen and take good notes.  We are about to share with you 5 Steps to Gett Your Prayers Answered. 

Are you ready?  Ok, let’s go.

The blueprint is found in Mark 11: 22-25.
 22 “Have faith in God,” Jesus answered. 23 “Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them. 24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. 25 And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.”

In this scripture, we find the 5 steps.  Do you see them?  Ok, let's walk through each one.

Step One: You must have faith in God.  Are you a believer?  Do you truly believe that there is a God who rules and reins?  Do you believe that you are a sinner who has been saved by God’s grace?  Romans 10:9 says If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.  Your faith must be in God and not in “what” you are seeking God to do through prayer.

Step Two: You must not pray with selfish motives or ambitions.  What is your heart’s desire?  Will it only bless you, your spouse and your family?  James 4:3 says When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.  For example, if you are praying God, please help my spouse to be more active in church, join a small group, find friends, learn to cook…. then our marriage would be better.  This example is not considered bad prayers, but it is what YOU want.  You are putting God in a box.  A better way to express this in prayer is to desire what God has for your spouse.  God’s plan and purpose for your life and your spouse is so much greater than we can even imagine.  God knows what your spouse needs and what they can handle.  Isiah 55:8 says “My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord.  And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.”  This means God knows best!

Step Three: Your prayers must be for the building up of God’s Kingdom.  Will your prayer benefit God’s people? Does your request align with God’s purpose for your life?  To build up God’s Kingdom, you must be obedient and surrender to God’s Word.  That’s where you will find direction.  John 14:21 says “Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”  May God’s will be done!

Step Four: You must not hold a grudge with others.  Have you forgiven them?  You can’t come to God with your request if you have not forgiven your spouse or anyone else who has wronged you.   Forgiveness is a process where you are accepting the reality of what happened and finding a way to live in a state of resolution.  Forgiveness is not something you do for others.  It is a process you do for yourself.  Ephesians 4:32 says Instead, be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you.

Step Five: You must pray with specificity and not doubt.  Do you know what the Word says about your request?  Praying with specificity builds your faith and confidence in God’s Word and will for your life.  If you believe and know what the Word says about your situation then your prayers become ignited with great power.  Review the Lord’s Prayer in Matthew 6:9-14 to gain a better understanding for praying with specificity.  James 1:6 says, but when you ask him, be sure that your faith is in God alone. Do not waver, for a person with divided loyalty is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is blown and tossed by the wind.

Following these 5 Steps will get you on the right path for your prayers to be answered.  Be sure to study the scripture lessons we have mentioned and ask God for wisdom as you pray.
 
Until Next Time, Live in Peace!
-Billy & Yolanda

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Phiemon Benson prospere link
11/5/2018 11:27:20 am

Please father God bless me with strength and courage and giudeance and give me a peace of mind lord. please lord remove these negative thoughts and negative people out of my relationship and life and my brain lord show me the right things in life and the right way lord give me trust in God and my girlfriend in Jesus mighty name I pray amen.

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EUAN DONEGAN link
4/20/2019 11:17:30 am

A dream of ex girlfriend 37 years later and Hope we will be back together in AFTERLIFE
THE DREAM – A dream of ex girlfriend 30+ years later and Hope we will be back together in AFTERLIFE
I wonder if you can help me please because I need answers to why I`m having these dreams, thoughts and feelings after being so long over 30 years now......... Recurring Dreams started On 14th April 2019 continuing every day on. I woke up after a dream of a former lover 1st love that didn't last long although we were deeply in love This was away back in 1981-82...and we were going to get married in the future....1982 when we were together but all went wrong she was 16 and I was 20 we were at Camping ´t Vlutterke Oerle in Holland. Anyway. I woke up all shaky cold and she was constantly on my mind, crying every day since having vivid flashbacks, dreams and thoughts even saying her name. I feel down and tremble allot .. Her name is Josje Van Berkel [or Josephine] from Eindhoven Holland .....It was like a bad dream as if she may have passed away but the so detailed images I go was like I was going to be the exact way as I am or were back in the 1980`s and her the same meeting in afterlife.....I have been so sad all day upset down crying even my wife knew there was something wrong and strange happening but I didn't reply.....Its so jumbled up hard to put down in writing.....I am married near 29 years now ups and downs but good marriage with 3 lovely grown up kids....But afterlife I was praying to God to ask for me to come back the way I am/was and the way she Josje was to relive my life / our lives back and meet to continue a long prosperous relationship and correct all my wrong doings like Karma and be a better person and do what I missed out so dearly on in my young life. I was Italian born adopted by Scottish family in 1962 at 11 and a half weeks old. Met my biological family in 1997. Will I be this Italian person with my family not being adopted. will I revisit all those places from the 1970`s to 1980`s and meet up with my friends and the women in question?. I keep dreaming and talking about those days especially 1981 to 1987 like I am stuck in that time period in the world....Those were the best years of my life but i missed out on the best I lost my Josje in `82....I am 57 years old now she would be 53...and all my past dates with several women back then were lost due to my adoptive mother who controlled me badly via emotional blackmail.....I hope I can go back in time after the afterlife meet up with my lady in my dreams and relive my life and be so successful not being held back or being destroyed by my late adoptive mother.....Will I be in Italy this time will I be 20 again going over to Holland and meet this Josje again the way she was what she was like back in 1982. Will Josje also come back in her afterlife and so on... I just confused not a crazy person. I am a very emotional person too but a loving and caring person. I still miss her dearly and in my heart still love/loved her and somehow I had a bad dream that night. I was thinking of her but it was sad news in my dream. Is she alive or has she crossed over and if so I felt like Josje is waiting for me up in Heaven....if she is still alive she would be be 53 years old I am 57. We met in 1981 and I went over to see her again in 1982 she 16 me 20 we had friendship rings we were going to get engaged when she became 20 me 24 I was to stay there and work to buy a house there we wrote for a year 1st and became very close friends thus me going to see her in 1982 and us being together. I just wanted answers that in my afterlife will I meet my ex again as she and me the same way what we looked like the way we did back in 1982 and I really hope so.... ”My experiences also were had felt her touch, she felt mine, same with the tastes and smells and Kissing. We heard ourselves talk to eachother. We can see eachother vividly and the surroundings”

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Ann link
2/26/2022 04:27:05 am

Please I need prayers that my money be on the card Monday it's very urgently it o there Monday ,it was supposed to been there Friday please pray thank you and God bless

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