ASK ACCORDING TO GOD’S WILL
Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 1 John 5:14 If you are going to have answered prayers you will have to ask according to God’s will and that means in line with His Word. God’s Word reveals God’s will for your life, therefore, if it’s in the Word, you can ask for it. When I was in high school a certain prophet from the U.S. came to our school and prophesied to me and after that meeting one of my teachers said to other students, “If the prophet did not prophecy to you and you want what he prophesied to someone else, you can say, ‘God, I want the same thing.’” That couldn’t be further from the truth, because that would be covetousness. Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” Hebrews 13:5 You cannot ask God for something that belongs to someone that would be covetousness, that is not God’s will. ...