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The Place Where
PRAYERS Are
Heard
and Answered!
Would you turn with me in your bibles to 2Chr. 7:14-16; (If
my people, which are called by my name, shall humble
themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn
from their wicked ways; then will I hear from
heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal
their land. ver.15 Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine
ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place. ver.16
For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my
name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be
there perpetually.)
Prayers
Heard Or Unheard, Answered Or Unanswered ! ?
Let me say right off; that, if you want your prayers ANSWERED
by God, you must first have them HEARD!
Sad to say, there are many sitting in churches all around the
world, and in every Association and Denomination that don't know
what it is to have there prayers answered. They say; I've prayed
and prayed and prayed, but still there is no answer. Friend there
is a reason for UNANSWERED PRAYERS.
Now I not preaching about HINDERED answers as in Daniel's case
when he prayed and fasted for 21 days until the answer came: I'M
PREACHING ABOUT YOUR PRAYERS THAT ARE NEVER ANSWERED!
The reason for UNANSWERED prayers, is UNHEARD prayers! Now
UNHEARD PRAYERS are 2 fold. Let's look at James 4:2-4, James in
these few verses of scriptures gives the 2 fold reason for
UNANSWERED PRAYERS. (Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire
to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not,
because ye ask not. ver.3 Ye ask, and receive
not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it
upon your lusts. ver.4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know
ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God?
whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of
God.)
Reason #1. Unheard and Unanswered; because there never prayed.
"YE HAVE NOT, BECAUSE YOU ASK NOT!"
Reason #2. Unheard and Unanswered; because the prayers that
are prayed God will not hear. "Ye ask, and receive
not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it
upon your lusts !"
The second reason is the one that I feel the Spirit of God
would have me to deal with in this message.
You may ask; Brother Mike, IF I CAN'T HAVE MY PRAYERS ANSWERED
UNTIL I'VE HAD THEM HEARD, WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO HAVE MY
PRAYERS HEARD? Now my answer may sound a little strange at
first, but don't quit reading and say; boy that Bro. Mike is way
off. He doesn't know what he's preaching about at all, until you've
read the message through.
Get ready here's the answer: IF YOU WANT YOUR PRAYERS HEARD,
YOU'VE GOT TO PRAY THEM IN THE RIGHT PLACE! Are you still
there?
That's right you've got to be in the right place before God
will HEAR YOUR PRAYERS! And remember: UNHEARD PRAYERS
ARE UNANSWERED PRAYERS!
Tell
Me, Where Is That Place ?
Let's take a look again at 2 Chr.7:15, ( Now mine eyes shall
be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in
this place.) It is clear to see in this verse of scripture
that God has GUARANTEED to HEAR the prayers that his people would
pray unto Him in Solomon's Temple.
Now we know that Solomon's Temple which God had Guaranteed to
hear prayers made in, was a building made of wood and stone. And
we know that the building of Solomon's Temple and all that
pertained unto it was a foresight and shadow of the temple God
was going to make every Born Again Child of God through Christ
Jesus.
The place I'm preaching about where God has GUARANTEED to HEAR
and ANSWER your Prayers is not a building made of wood and stone,
but rather that spiritual place in Christ Jesus.
Jesus explains to the little Samaritan woman at the well, that
it's not in a certain mountain or in a certain city that men have
to be to Worship God the Father. Look what he says to her in John
4, (ver.21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour
cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet
at Jerusalem, worship the Father. ver.22 Ye worship ye know
not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
ver.23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true
worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth:
for the Father seeketh such to worship him. ver.24 God is a
Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit
and in truth.)
Friend you are not GUARANTEED to have your prayers HEARD and
ANSWERED just because you go to a certain church. And it may even
be a FULL GOSPEL, BIBLE BELIEVING, HOLY GHOST
FILLED, TRUTH PREACHING church that you go to. Now I
want to say, that I Thank the Lord for church buildings where we
can come together and pray and seek the face of the Lord. Jesus
himself declared as he was throwing over the tables in the temple,
and whipping out the money changers, and those that bought and
sold there: "My house shall be called the house of prayer;
but ye have made it a den of thieves." Now I know
that there were some prayers being prayed by those folk. Keep in
mind, they were in the temple. Some of there prayers probable
went like this: Lord let me sell all my doves today. Lord let
this be a SELL OUT DAY. Shout Amen. But God's not HEARING
THOSE PRAYERS!
You see they were in the temple where they should have been
praying right, but they were in the WRONG PLACE! That is: THEIR
HEARTS ARE NOT RIGHT! And friend, when your in the wrong
place, your seeing the wrong things, and your going to be praying
the wrong prayers: PRAYERS THAT GOD DOES NOT HEAR AND ANSWER!
But when you get in the right place, you see the right things,
and you'll be praying the right kind of prayers: PRAYERS THAT
GOD HEARS AND ANSWERS! Hallelujah.
According
To God's Blueprint
Let's take a look a the temple king Solomon built. There are a
few things about that temple, that are to be evident in our
temple if it is going to be a place where God Guarantees to HEAR
and ANSWER our Prayers.
#1. Solomon's Temple was built according to God's blueprints.
As was the Tabernacle of God in the wilderness. God said to Moses
in Ex.25:9, (According to all that I show thee, after the pattern
of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof,
even so shall ye make it.) Saints of God our lives MUST BE
FASHIONED AND BUILT ACCORDING TO GOD'S DIVINE BLUEPRINT. And
that blueprint is THE WORD OF GOD! I'm preaching to you
about getting your prayers HEARD and ANSWERED!
Rom.12:1 & 2 says, (I beseech you therefore, brethren, by
the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living
sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable
service. ver.2 And be not conformed to this world: but be
ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove
what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.) We
can not Fashion our lives after the worlds blueprint and Pray
Prayers that God's ears are attent unto.
Look at what king David charged his son Solomon concerning the
building of the House of the Lord. 1 Chr.28:10-12, (Take heed now;
for the LORD hath chosen thee to build an house for the sanctuary:
be strong, and do it. ver.11 Then David gave to Solomon his son the
pattern of the porch, and of the houses thereof, and of the
treasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers thereof, and of the
inner parlours thereof, and of the place of the mercy seat, ver.12
And the pattern of all that he had by the spirit, of the
courts of the house of the LORD, and of all the chambers round
about, of the treasuries of the house of God, and of the
treasuries of the dedicated things:) Notice, HE GAVE HIM THE
PATTERN. This is not his pattern. Praise God this is THE
PATTERN OF ALL THAT HE HAD BY THE SPIRIT! And king Solomon
built it according to that pattern.
It's
Time For Temple Dedications
#2. After Solomon had built the Temple, he DEDICATED it
unto the Lord. 2 Chr.7:5 (And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of
twenty and two thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand
sheep: so the king and all the people dedicated the house of
God.)
You see, the place where God HEARS and ANSWERS Prayers is also
a DEDICATED PLACE! So if we are going to have our Prayers
HEARD and ANSWERED by God, then we're going to have to have an
Old Time Temple Dedication! AND WE ARE THE TEMPLES WHICH MUST
BE DEDICATED! Shout Amen Someone.
1 Cor.3:16 &17 (Know ye not that ye are the temple of
God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? ver.17 If
any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the
temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.) 1 Cor.6:19
& 20 (What? know ye not that your body is the temple of
the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye
are not your own? ver.20 For ye are bought with a price:
therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are
God's.) Let's also look at 2 Cor.6:16-18, (And what agreement
hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of
the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and
walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my
people. ver.17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye
separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing;
and I will receive you, ver.18 And will be a Father unto you, and
ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.)
One of the greatest things that cause our prayers to go
UNHEARD and UNANSWERED by God is the failure to DEDICATE
and SEPARATE our lives to the cause of God. Hear it, I'm
preaching about a place where Prayers are HEARD and ANSWERED. And
that place is in CONSECRATED, DEDICATED and SEPARATED
TEMPLES!
Filled
With Dedicated Things
#3. Once the Temple had been Dedicated, king Solomon FILLED
IT WITH DEDICATED THINGS. 2 Chr.5:1, (Thus all the work that
Solomon made for the house of the LORD was finished: and Solomon
brought in all the things that David his father had dedicated;
and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments, put he
among the treasures of the house of God.)
Let me ask you this: HAVE YOU FILLED YOUR TEMPLE WITH
TREASURES, OR TRASH? Is your life a TREASURE CHEST,
or a TRASH BIN? Come On, Someone Help Me Preach.
Church there is a purpose for everything. Everything has a use
and purpose, whether it's purpose be GOOD, HOLY,
and RIGHTEOUS, or whether it be BAD, EVIL,
and UNGODLY. And dedicated THINGS are things that
are given over to be used for a certain purpose. Now we know that
the purpose of Almighty God is to REDEEM, RESTORE, RESURRECT
mankind from DEATH, and to Set them Free from satan's power.
And it is satan's PURPOSE to keep mankind under his evil control.
To keep them in chain's and prison houses of SIN, SICKNESS,
DISEASE, and DARKNESS.
Realizing that everything has a use and purpose, we must fill
our lives with those things which FULFILL THE PURPOSE OF GOD!
The music we listen to, the things we read, the things we watch
on TV. and on video tapes, the games and programs that you play
on your computers, etc. We must ask ourselves: WHAT IS THERE
PURPOSE? Are these things furthering God's Kingdom in my life,
or are they WEIGHTS and SINS THAT ARE SO EASILY
BESETTING, AND HINDERING THE PURPOSE OF GOD IN MY LIFE!
In order for us to Pray Prayers that are HEARD and ANSWERED by
God then we must CLEAN THE TEMPLE OF EVERYTHING THAT DOES NOT
FULFILL GOD'S PURPOSE, AND FILL IT WITH THINGS DEDICATED
TO BE USED FOR THE GLORY OF GOD!
We find a good example of this in Neh.13:7-9 (And I came to
Jerusalem, and understood of the evil that Eliashib did for
Tobiah, in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of
God. ver.8 And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all
the household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber. ver.9 Then
I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers: and
thither brought I again the vessels of the house of God, with
the meat offering and the frankincense.) You see Tobiah was an
enemy of God's purpose and work. And all the STUFF he had brought
into the chambers of God's House had to be cast out, because they
were not THINGS DEDICATED TO THE WORK OF THE LORD! Once Tobiah is
put out and the chambers were rid of his stuff, they had to be
cleaned out. Look at what 2 Cor.7:1 says, (Having therefore these
promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all
filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in
the fear of God.)
Someone may say, "We can't cleanse ourselves, only the
blood of Jesus can clean us." You see the blood of Jesus
cleansed us from the sins of a life without Christ, but once you
receive Jesus as the Lord, and Saviour of your life, it is WALKING
AND LIVING IN THE WORD OF GOD THAT KEEPS YOU CLEAN! John 15:3
(Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken
unto you.) Let's also look at Eph.5:26 & 27 (That he might
sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
ver.27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not
having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be
holy and without blemish.)
So you see it is up to you and I to LIVE and WALK IN
THE WORD that our temples can be cleansed of all things which
are not of God's purpose. And a temple that is cleansed of TOBIAH'S
STUFF, and FILLED WITH THE DEDICATED THINGS OF GOD, is
a PLACE WHERE GOD HEARS AND ANSWERS PRAYERS!
The
Place To Pray In For Answers
In conclusion let me quickly give you some scriptures that
will help you to know where that place is where God Guaranteed to
HEAR and ANSWER your Prayers.
IN CHRIST: John 15:7 (If ye abide in me, and my
words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it
shall be done unto you.)
IN THE HOLY GHOST: Jude 1:20 (But ye, beloved, building
up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,)
Rom.8:26 & 27 (Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our
infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we
ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with
groanings which cannot be uttered. ver.27 And he that
searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit,
because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the
will of God.)
IN FAITH: James 1:6 & 7 (But let him ask in
faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like
a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. ver.7 For
let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the
Lord.) Heb.11:6 (But without faith it is impossible to
please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is,
and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.)
IN RIGHTEOUSNESS: 1 Pet.3:12 (For the eyes of the Lord
are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their
prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do
evil.) Jam.5:16-18 (Confess your faults one to another, and pray
one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent
prayer of a righteous man availeth much. ver.17 Elias was a
man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly
that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the
space of three years and six months. ver.18 And he prayed again,
and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.)
YES, THERE IS A PLACE WHERE GOD HEARS AND ANSWERS PRAYERS!
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