Wednesday daily devotional by Pastor David Okoye (Ambassadors Word Diet, 13th SEPT, 2017) – Pray rightly

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. James 4:3

Do you know that it is an error for you to pray as a Godchild and not receive an answer? So many Christians are unaware that their prayers are not answered because they pray amiss. 1 John 5:14-15 says,

And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him. 

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God has given you the liberty to ask for anything. But, there is a limit in your asking. The asking has got to be within the circumference and confines of God’s will.

Asking amiss is when you ask out of the scope; that is, outside the circumference of God’s will. If you ask for something that is not a 100% in accordance with God’s will, it would not be answered. No matter how long you spend crying and praying, and how hurtful you might be feeling, if you keep asking outside the will, it would never be answered.

When you know the will, anything you ask within it must be answered.

Whenever you pray, and you do not receive an answer, there is a problem. The problem can never be from God; the problem is that your prayers are not balanced in God’s will.

There is a particular character of answered prayers. Until you take up this character, you would hardly produce results in your place of prayers.

You pray according to the will of God by praying in other tongues. When you pray in other tongues, you know the mind of the Spirit.

Everything in the mind of the Spirit is in the mind of God. After praying in the Spirit, begin to make faith declarations towards what you prayed for.

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Faith-filled prayers connect your blessing from the spiritual to the natural realm. Faith moves you to the direction of God. Faith prayers are not request-making prayers. They are prayers of declaration towards a supply.

Now that is how to pray right.

DECLARATION:
I do not pray amiss; my prayers are in accordance with God’s will. My prayers are not weighty; they are faith-filled.

SCRIPTURAL REFERENCE:
1 John 3:22, James 4:1-3

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