Why God Hears us today

Except the words of Jesus are untrustworthy, except God can lie, we know the Father hears us when we pray. He answers all our hearts.

And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him. (1 John 5:14-15 KJV)

How do we know God hears us? We look into Christ. By faith we understand…

…that our frailty or feebleness of putting prayers together cannot stop us

We are never well organised enough to put up a formidable, adequately word-nourished request; but God for Christ sake hears us. Sometimes our prayers do not meet the scriptural-compatibility demand, still He hears. Our religious mindset mixed with inadequate understanding of the will of God, which should be a fundamental prerequisite for answered prayers, are often overlooked because of Jesus. On Him alone is the basis for receiving whatever we ask! Only in union with Him do we meet the prioritised requirements for answered prayers.

…that our righteousness (weak and filthy) does not stop God from moving to our help

This is because no matter how well and commendable our works of righteousness may prove, it still cannot qualify for the Presence of the Almighty, let alone an endorsement of our request. God’s response to our prayer is not on basis of well-done labour in His works but for Jesus sake. In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him. (Eph 3:12). For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. (Ephesians 2:18 KJV)

That’s why we pray in Jesus name. When we do this, we are telling the Father to take His eyes off us, and put them on Jesus (His Pleasure); as if it’s Jesus who is before the Father making a request. So the Father ignores our imperfections, turn away from our non-uprightness. He throws off the book of the law that spells out the conditions that any answerable prayer must meet or He sees them met in Christ: the answer is released immediately. This is the difference between praying as a law man (who must keep the law to get answers) and the prayer of faith.  See how James explains the prayer of faith.

James 5:14  Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:

James 5:15  And the PRAYER OF FAITH SHALL SAVE the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they [ALL] shall be forgiven him. 

Yes! The prayer of faith saves and always will, no matter the dispensation (grace or law). The law requires that a man must be righteous (without sin) to stand before the throne and make a request. But how are sinners saved today? By the prayer of faith! Faith of Christ! “…the word of faith, which we preach; that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt BELIEVE in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.” (Rom 10:8-9). Because they are not qualified to come to even ask for forgiveness and never would have been, but today we now know that: by him all that BELIEVE are JUSTIFIED from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the LAW of Moses. (Act 13:39)
So it says the prayer of faith shall save the sick… and if he hath committed sins, they will no longer count. Why? He has decided to be judged by faith (that the righteousness of Christ may speak) and not by the demands of the law, for by the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified.

This is how to knock on the doors of heaven! Jesus says when ye pray, say “Our Father…”(Matthew 6:9); not “our God…”, because we won’t want to be addressed in a God-servants relationship. Because that won’t favour us. But we invoke the Fatherly care, love and attention when we say “our Father”. So we know that He hears us and loves us. Yes! He loves you so much He wants all your problems solved. Knock on heaven’s doors today, but pray in the name of Jesus.

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