SCRIPTURES
2 Cor. 4:8-9; 2 Timothy 4:18; John 10:28; Ps. 17:6; Ps. 143:1; Ps. 54:2; James 1:6-8; Mark 1:27; Isaiah 32:8; Ps. 124:7; Jer. 32:17; Ps. 41:1-2; Prov. 21:13; Ps. 92:12; Rev, 3:8.
CONFESSION
“I shall call upon the Lord and he will answer me; he will show me great and mighty things that I knew not” (Jeremiah 33:3).
EXHORTATION
In the first part of this ministration, I mentioned seven things that can hinder a prayer from being answered which include:
- WHEN YOU DOUBT GOD TO ANSWER PRAYER:
When you don’t believe that God can answer prayer or is able to grant your particular request, it is impossible to receive anything from him. In Matthew 21:22, we read that: “And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.” There is nothing anyone can get from the Lord without faith in him that he is able to do what you have asked. James 1:6-8 says: “But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering … let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord … A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.”
- WHEN YOUR REQUEST IS BASED ON WRONG MOTIVES
When you ask God for something with a wrong motive or the request is based on selfish intent, such a prayer would not be answered. James 4:3; “Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.”
- UN-CONFESSED SINS
Un-confessed sins separate us from God. In Isaiah 59:1-2, the Bible says that: “Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy that it cannot hear: but your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you that he will not hear.” If there is an un-confessed sin in your life; except by God’s mercy, it would be difficult, if not impossible to receive anything from the Lord. This is confirmed in Proverbs 28:13 when it says: “He that covereth his sins shall not prosper; but whoso confesseth and forsaketh shall have mercy.” An un-confessed sin will hinder your prayer.
- WHEN AN IDOL IS SET UP IN YOUR HEART
What is an idol? An idol is anything that comes between you and God. Something in your life that you value or hold in higher esteem than God or the things of God. The book of Ezekiel 14:3 says: “… these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?” This Bible reference has further expounded the meaning of what an idol could be to include even the very thoughts of our heart. In essence, even if you take a strong position on a decision of something you ought to have asked God, and you’re adamant or insisting that nothing can change your mind, but you merely want God to approve of what you have decided; then you have set up an idol in your heart. In such instances, you won’t get God to speak to you.
- WHEN YOU REFUSE TO HELP OTHERS
When you do not answer those who cry to you for help while you are in a position to help them, then you too will cry someday and not get God to hear your cry. Proverbs 21:13 says: “Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.” That is the gospel truth! But if you consider and help the poor and the helpless; let us look at the five things that God has said will happen in the life of the helper, as mentioned in Psalm 41:1-2:
- The Lord shall deliver him in a time of trouble
- The Lord will preserve him at all times
- The Lord shall keep him alive till his old age
- He shall be blessed upon the face of the earth
- The Lord shall not deliver him over unto the will of his enemies
It is always good to help people. When you can conveniently or sacrificially help someone in need; then the Lord will make those five blessings to abide with you. If you are in a position to help anybody; do not hesitate and do as much as the sprit would lead you. Look around your vicinity and pick up an indigent student whose parent cannot pay his school fees and help out. Extend a hand of fellowship to someone who is hungry around you. You can equally visit PAWOF (Pastor Wole Oladiyun Foundation) and help someone under its scholarship list. I pray that the Lord will answer the prayers of everyone who bountifully gives to help others in Jesus name. (You may wish to contact us for details on PAWOF)
With all sense of humility, CLAM is an ardent giver. The Ministry sows much money into other Ministries in terms of tithes and offerings; CLAM also make donations to other churches and ministries that are yet to be on a sound footing. We equally buy musical instruments to many as well. In view of this, no matter what happens, CLAM can never go down. That is why the Ministry will continue to grow in leaps and bounds till the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. As a matter of fact, the Lord has promised that CLAM would be one of the few remnant churches that he will meet on earth at his second coming.
- WHEN YOU DON’T REMAIN IN GOD
It is un-Christian to be a rise and falling believer. As a matter of fact, it is dangerous for you not to remain in Christ at all times. If you don’t maintain consistency in your Christian way of life; it would be impossible to get your prayers answered. When you don’t remain in God; and the word of God does not remain in you; your prayers would not be answered. John 15:7 says: “If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.”
- UNFORGIVENESS
Unforgiveness is one of the great sins in life that can hinder prayers from being answered. No amount of prayer and fasting can make your voice to be heard in heaven if there is unforgiveness in your heart against anybody. Other vices like anger, malice, wrath, bitterness, envy, and so on, will hinder your prayers. In Ephesians 4:31-32, the Bible says: “Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice. And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.”
The Bible says in Matthew 6:14-15 that: “For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you; but if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.”
Forgive whoever has offended you and see how God will mightily bless you. He will bless the work of your hand and make you to prosper.
PRAYERS
- O Lord my God! By your mercy; answer my prayers in Jesus name.
- By your grace O Lord; let my requests come before you in Jesus name.
- O Lord! By your unfailing power; let not my supplications be rejected in your presence in Jesus name.
- By the leading of the Holy Spirit, I shall pray the right prayer and receive answers in the name of Jesus;
- O Lord, let your excellent spirit for breakthrough possess me in Jesus name.
- O Lord! By your mercy; let my prayer come before the throne of grace in Jesus name.
- O Lord! Let your spirit for me to be a giver possess me in Jesus name;
- O Lord! Thou that heareth prayers in heaven; in thee shall all flesh come; answer me in Jesus name;
- Supernatural strategies for answered prayers; O Lord! show me in Jesus name;
- Astonishing direction of God for all-round miracles; locate me in Jesus name;
- O Lord! By your mercy, release all my outstanding blessings in Jesus Name;
- O Lord! All hindrances to my breakthrough, efficiency, success and productivity in life; break by fire in Jesus name;
- Father! Grant me good and great access doors to my lifting in Jesus name;
- O Lord God! Grant me the grace to be of help and blessing to my generation in Jesus name;
- Lord! Let your divine compass direct my paths in Jesus name.
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