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Prayer that Bears Fruit — Praying His Will Yields His Answer

One of the great secrets of prayer is the discovery of unlimited power that is available when God’s people begin to intercede for things that God has clearly promised in His written word. 

We find a wonderful promise in Scripture, 1 John 5:14 - 15 NKJV reads: “Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.” 

Faith and expectancy in intercession are little more than presumption and delusion if they are not firmly rooted in the expressed will of God to perform. Thank God that because of His great love, mercy and grace, He doesn’t give us everything we ask for. If He did so, many times disaster would be the result for us as well as the abortion of His purpose and plans! 

God is absolutely honest and will never promise things that He is unable or unwilling to deliver. We can have absolute, unwavering confidence that when we go to Him in prayer, seeking those things that we know are His expressed will, to give and to do, a revelation of His glory and power will soon come. When we know that we know that we know what the will of God is, we can pray His will be done with an unwavering assurance that the answer is on the way.

When we begin praying for a mighty outpouring of the Holy Spirit that will break the devil’s back and glorify God, the heavens will begin to leak under the weight of His glory. When we begin to passionately pray that souls be saved and the name of the Lord Jesus be famous in the nations, we can be absolutely confident that heaven is beginning to move in response.