I want to share the point I learned from the teaching by BRO ELISORIANO titled
CONTENT OF PRAYERS
Phil 4 vs 6; I learned that praying is not story telling, its making a request known to God and not anxiously. When the apostles needed a replacement for Judas,they prayed directly and their prayer was few and God choose Mathias for them.
We should always make our prayer few and not to pray repetitively, if anyone is sick, pray a few prayer and as long as you're righteous, your prayer will be answered
Mark 11 vs 24; I learned also that we should include thanksgiving to our prayer, and the reason why thanksgiving is included is that for us to ask from God, we should believe that he will do it, so we thank him believing he has done it
I learned that we should always pray by ourselves and not calling on the dead to pray for us, we should request what we needed at that particular moment and we should pray always, we should learn how to pray in difficult and comfort time
We should always kneel before praying and we should always prayed without ceasing ( 1 Thes 5 vs 17 ), make simple prayer entrusting God, before you ask, God will answer even before you ask ( Matt 6 vs 8).
HOW TO BE SURE OUR PRAYER IS ANSWERED
2 Tim 2 vs 22; I learned that the ways to know that ones prayer is answered is by fleeing from youthful lust, if your heart is filthy, God will not answer us because the hear of the Lord is open to the righteous and his face against the evil (1 pet 3 vs 10-12)
We should have a PURE HEART, we should never allow evil in our heart, if we do, God will not answer our prayer.
It is only God that can see the heart , it is deceitful above all thing,
If you're cheating, false witnesses , lies when you pray God will not answer our prayer, we need to purify our heart.
1 Pet 3 vs 7; As husband, dwell with your wife in peace and honour, don't shout at her or treat her with care and same to the wife, as a family if we do that God will answer our prayer
Act 22 vs 16; I also learned that we should give ourselves to baptism and our dinner will be forgiven as the promise in( 2 Chro 7 vs 14)
HOW OUR HEART CAN BE CLEANED
John 15 vs 3; I learned that it is only the word of God that can purify our heart but if you don't know the word of God theirs no how you can keep the word of God to our heart.
We should abstain from the work of flesh written in Gal 5 vs 19
Good tree bring good fruit but bad tree bring bad fruit, we should be off God tree,
We should control our tongue and not allow evil coming out of our mouth ( James 3 vs 4 )
We should let our Yes be yes and no be no, we should never give false promises.
Heb 13 vs 5; Lastly I learned that if we know how to trust , obey and call upon Him, he will answer us
MY PREVIOUS BELIEF
My formal belief is praying repetitiously and story telling in prayer and praying when in difficulty, but thanks be to God for the knowledge, now I know the truth
HOW THE STUDY AFFECTS ME
I now know the content of prayer and won't be praying repetitively and would always make my prayer few and not story telling, i should always control my tongue and to always purify our heart with the word of God
Thanks be to God
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