Ask With Confidence

Ask with confidence in prayer. The believer can know he or she has eternal life and know God hears our prayers. However, this verse specifies that getting a positive answer to prayer is based on asking "according to his will."
 Verses such as this clear up the common misconception that God promises to give us "absolutely anything" we ask for, no matter what. God is not a vending machine, or a robot. He acts according to His ways, not ours. He hears our prayers, but it should come as no surprise that He responds to those prayers according to His will.

Prayer:
Heavenly Father, we have trusted You for our salvation and desire to walk in spirit and truth, to abide daily in Christ, and to live in unbroken fellowship with You in the days we have left of of lives. I know You are a God that hears and answers the prayers of the righteous, and we pray that we would increasingly offer up our prayers and supplications according to Your will, so that You may be honored in our prayer-lives, and glorified through the words that we speak, the meditations of our hearts, and the daily activities and actions that we live out, according to Your will. This we pray in Jesus name...' Amen
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