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As I stated in #147 I was feeling a little discouraged on Saturday because not one person has called or e-mailed or anything. Then 20 minutes after I told a friend Charles Stanley came on TV and basically said some of the things I had said to a friend and said that unless God tells us otherwise we are to continue to pray whether it takes days, weeks or months or longer. Here are the notes from that sermon that I took. It really was just what I needed to hear and a gentle rebuke from the Lord. Thank you Lord

Why God Has Us Pray Matt 7: 7 - 11 "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened." "Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!"

To build an intimate personal relationship with us
To acknowledge that He is the source of everything, He desires we are dependant on Him.
To begin to view Him how He is.
To Learn to Trust Him!
To Learn His Ways
To learn to wait on God
To see Him demonstrate His personal interest in my life.
To signal to the lost that He is real and answers prayer.
*God gives more than you ask, more than you deserve, more than you expect. The more you pray, the less you complain and the more you Praise Him.
CONDITION FOR ANSWERED PRAYERS
Answer will be given according to His will. (1 John 5:14 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.)
We must ask with the right motive. (Do I have the right to ask God for it?)
We must come to Him in Faith.
Pray in the name of Jesus (Means you know Jesus is present)
WHY GOD DELAYS ANSWERING PRAYER
Because of sin in our life.
Because He has to arrange the circumstances
Because He has a better plan
Because He has to get our attention
Because the timing is not right. DON'T GET AHEAD OF GOD! STOP MANIPULATING! OR IT WILL TURN TO ASHES!
To test and grow our faith!

Hi, GrandmaC -- thanks for sharing your dream . . . I'm keeping you and it in my prayers. May God hold you safe and close in His hand throughout this time of waiting and growing.

Thanks that is good teaching. I too am asking God to answer some prayers that I see as desperate. I know God is faithful, but sometimes get discouraged.