2. The Master Key to a Successful Prayer Pastor Dee Tima-an

3. P URPOSE P RAYER 1. Receive what we asked for 2. Find what we seek from 3. Achieve what we long to 4. Know whom we talk with “ Petition ” “ Enquiry ” “ Wrestle ” “ Intimacy ” “ Supplication ” 5. Yearn for God’s mercy & Favor P W I S E John 14:13-14 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it. Jer. 33:3 -'Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.' Lk. 18:13 - And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner..' Isa 55:9- "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts...' Gal 4:19- But oh, my dear children! I feel as if I am going through labor pains for you again, and they will continue until Christ is fully developed in your lives.NLT

4. Few Things we must be sure when Praying 1. Be Sure it’s being heard 2. Be Sure it’s in the will of God 1 John 5:13-15NIV 14 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15 And if we know that he hears us-whatever we ask-we know that we have what we asked of him. Isa 59:1-2NASB Behold, the Lord's hand is not so short That it cannot save; Neither is His ear so dull That it cannot hear. 2 But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, And your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear. Ps 66:18 18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me: KJV 3. Be Sure it will glorify God 1 John 5:13-15 14 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15 And if we know that he hears us-whatever we ask-we know that we have what we asked of him. NIV James 4:2-3 You do not have, because you do not ask God. 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. NIV Rev 4:11 11 "You are worthy, O Lord our God, to receive glory and honor and power. For you created everything, and it is for your pleasure that they exist and were created." NLT 1 Cor. 11:2 31 So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. NIV

5. J ESUS The Master Key to a Successful Prayer J ESUS ANSWERED, "I AM THE WAY AND THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE. N O ONE COMES TO THE F ATHER EXCEPT THROUGH ME. 7 I F YOU REALLY KNEW ME, YOU WOULD KNOW MY F ATHER AS WELL. F ROM NOW ON, YOU DO KNOW HIM AND HAVE SEEN HIM.“ 6 J ESUS ANSWERED, "I AM THE WAY AND THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE. N O ONE COMES TO THE F ATHER EXCEPT THROUGH ME. 7 I F YOU REALLY KNEW ME, YOU WOULD KNOW MY F ATHER AS WELL. F ROM NOW ON, YOU DO KNOW HIM AND HAVE SEEN HIM.“ John 14:6-7 NIV

6. J ESUS The Master Key to a Successful Prayer J ESUS ANSWERED, "I AM THE WAY AND THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE. N O ONE COMES TO THE F ATHER EXCEPT THROUGH ME. 7 I F YOU REALLY KNEW ME, YOU WOULD KNOW MY F ATHER AS WELL. F ROM NOW ON, YOU DO KNOW HIM AND HAVE SEEN HIM.“ 6 J ESUS ANSWERED, "I AM THE WAY AND THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE. N O ONE COMES TO THE F ATHER EXCEPT THROUGH ME. 7 I F YOU REALLY KNEW ME, YOU WOULD KNOW MY F ATHER AS WELL. F ROM NOW ON, YOU DO KNOW HIM AND HAVE SEEN HIM.“ John 14:6-7 NIV No amount of Human Righteousness, nor human perfection, nor human sacrifice, nor human performance can ever make us qualify to speak to God or gain the favor of God- BUT through J ESUS C HRIST

7. J ESUS The Master Key to a Successful Prayer Imputation Imputation “ To attribute or blame sin and guilt to somebody ”- Lev. 16:21-22 2 Cor. 5:21- God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. Substitution “To put somebody or something in place of another ” Gal 3:13- Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: "Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree." Redemption Redemption “ buying back of something given or owned, the act of saving something or somebody from a declined, dilapidated or corrupted state and restoring it, him or her to a better condition ” Gal 3:14- He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit. Justification “ to declare someone just or righteous ” Rom 3: 23 For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.. A Required Sacrifice

8. “ I am the Way, the truth and the Life” J ESUS The Master Key to a Successful Prayer Jesus is the Way to the father John 15:5b “ for without me ye can do nothing.” KJV Rom 5:1-2 5:1 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. John 16:23-24 I tell you the truth, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. 24 Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete. NIV Jesus is the Truth about the father John 14:9-10 9 Jesus answered: "Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'? NIV John 10:25-26 25 Jesus answered, "I did tell you, but you do not believe. The miracles I do in my Father's name speak for me, 37 Do not believe me unless I do what my Father does. 38 But if I do it, even though you do not believe me, believe the miracles, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father." Jesus is the Life from the father John 10:10 I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. NIV John 1:3-5 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of men. NIV John 11:25-26 25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; 26 and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?" NIV

9. Revelation 3:14 These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God's creation. NIV J ESUS The Master Key to a Successful Prayer 2 Cor 1:19-21 19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by me and Silas and Timothy, was not "Yes" and "No," but in him it has always been "Yes." 20 For no matter how many promises God has made, they are "Yes" in Christ. And so through him the "Amen" is spoken by us to the glory of God. NIV

10. “May you’ll have the best prayer life ever.” -Pastor Dee