04/09/2022
_In case you missed it_
*1st Sunday Blessing*🙂
🕯️ *Preacher:* Rev'd Paul Kilanko [ *President, HGIC* ]
🕯️ *Topic:* Getting Prayers Answered; Asking in Faith [Part 5]
🕯️ *B.Text:* James 1:5-8
*EXTRACTS:* ✍️
🕯️Anyone that prays without expecting answers needs not to pray.
🕯️If God can not answer prayer, then He is not fit to be called GOD.
🕯️Having prayer answered is a prove that God is a Living God and as the Pagan dead gods.
🕯️There is always something that trigger/provoke God to give you answers to your prayer among it, is your FAITH.
🕯️You must be a man & woman of FAITH
🕯️It brings weariness to God when He found FAITH wanted in your life.
🕯️God want us to attain a certain level in FAITH.
_*CHARACTERISTICS OF OUR GOD ACCORDING TO*_ *JAMES 1:5-6*
1. Our God is capable to give you anything (Wisdom) you need.
🕯️God's power superimpose everything you may ever need.
2. Our God is a Liberal giver
🕯️There is Nothing you need that cannot be found in God.
🕯️I Tim 6:17 - God gives everything in plenty.
🕯️Eph 2:4 - He is rich in Mercy
3. God did not Reproach for asking Him anything.
4. Anyone who want to ask must ask in FAITH.
🕯️The shortest and easiest ways to receive from God is 'asking in FAITH'.
5. Don't be double-minded. [verse 8].
🕯️Double-minded people can not receive from God.
🕯️ *NB:* Anyone who want to 'Ask and Receive' must focus his FAITH on *3 THINGS*, namely;
1. *God:* Anyone who want to receive must believed that God exist. [Hebrew 11:6]
2. *Word of God:*
The word of God is God's signature.
🕯️The word of God is God's integrity.
🕯️The word of God is the same as God.
🕯️You must believe in His word to truly receive from Him.
🕯️The word of God is God's breath and it carries power
🕯️Jeremiah 1:12; 29:12-14, Psalm 50:19; 91:15-17, Matt 24:34-35.
3. *Teacher of His Word* [2 Chronicles 20:20, Mark 6:5-6;6:3]
🕯️Believe in His prophet