{"id":45470,"date":"2022-10-01T01:51:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/how-does-god-answer-prayer-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T01:51:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:51:44","slug":"how-does-god-answer-prayer-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/how-does-god-answer-prayer-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"How Does God Answer Prayer? &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a cursory reading of the Bible, we know and understand that <strong>God does indeed answer prayer<\/strong> (Matthew 6:5-15; Matthew 7:7-12; 1 John 3:21-22; 1 John 5:14-15; cf. John 9:31; John 15:7; James 1:5-6; James 5:13-18).<\/p>\n<p>Now the question is asked, How does God answer prayer? The following are some biblical answers to that question:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sometimes, God says No in answer to our prayers<\/strong>  Note the prayer of Jesus in Matthew 26:39-44 and Pauls prayer in 2 Corinthians 12:7-10).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sometimes, God says Slow in answer to our prayers<\/strong>  His answer to our prayers are delayed <strong>for our benefit<\/strong>. (cf. Psalm 22:1-8; Psalm 40:1-4; Luke 18:1-7).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sometimes, God says Grow in answer to our prayers<\/strong> (John 11)  Mary and Martha asked Jesus to come and heal their brother Lazarus of a sickness. Jesus purposefully delayed his coming for two days, so that <strong>(1)<\/strong> He could demonstrate His authority and power in raising Lazarus from the dead, proving to them that he was indeed Gods Son, and<strong> (2)<\/strong> so that their faith might grow and increase (John 11:37-45).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sometimes, God says Go in answer to our prayers<\/strong>  Solomon asked for wisdom and received it (1 Kings 3:7-14. The disciples prayed for Peters release from prison, and their prayer was answered (Acts 12:1-17). In fact, God often gives us more than we ask for (Ephesians 3:20).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, the bottom line in all of the above is: <strong>(1)<\/strong> Dont forget to pray (Philippians 4:6), because God answers prayers, and <strong>(2)<\/strong> Pray without ceasing (1 Thessalonians 5:17; cf. Luke 18:1-8; Psalm 55:16-17)  our praying must be persistent and consistent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Article:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What If Our Prayers Go Unanswered?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a cursory reading of the Bible, we know and understand that God does indeed answer prayer (Matthew 6:5-15; Matthew 7:7-12; 1 John 3:21-22; 1 John 5:14-15; cf. John 9:31; John 15:7; James 1:5-6; James 5:13-18). Now the question is asked, How does God answer prayer? The following are some biblical answers to that question: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/how-does-god-answer-prayer-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How Does God Answer Prayer? &#8211; Bible study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}