And this is the confidence that we have before Him: If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:And this is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us:
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… Amen, either one. 1 John 5 verse 14 says, now this is the confidence that we have in him. I love that verse. We have confidence we have in him that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of him. That's our foundational verse. It is telling us that we can confidently and boldly go to God and talk to him and lay our burdens before the Lord and depend on him knowing that God will answer our prayers. Now, I think there are some people who know over the course of your life, you've seen God answer your prayers. You've seen God work a miracle. You've seen God do the impossible. You've seen God make a way out of no way. You've seen God make something happen that you thought would never happen in the course of your life. You know God has the capacity and the ability to do it. …
… called heard, and when you know God hears you, you have confidence. First John chapter 4, verse 14 and 15 says something very interesting. If we know 1 John 5, verse 14 says something very interesting, this is the confidence we have in approaching God. If we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. Let's read it again. If we have confidence in approaching God, we ask anything according to his will. He hears us. I can't hear you up here. Say it again. He hears us better than Siri. He hears us better than the people advertising to you on your phone when you're talking about lawnmowers and all of a sudden a weed eater shows up on your phone. He hears us. That's why God spoke to me when I was praying. He said, I've got Graham, but he did not tell me the timeline, and he did not tell me that there wouldn't be lows, and nobody knows what the future holds. Nobody knows what there will be in the next season, but I'm not serving God season by season. I'm serving him step by step, second by second. Since he's the master of the millisecond, I can trust him right now and know that he heard me. Tell three people he heard you. …
… Confidence. That we have in him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. He doesn't hear prayers prayed out of sync with his will. Someone said that prayer can be boiled down to this. Dad, you promised. Every kid knows how to say those words, right? That's why we parents got to be so careful what promises we make to our kids, right? Because they remember, right? They remember. If you promised, you said. That's why we have to talk to them like attorneys, you know, with fine print. You said you promised. I said we would try, right? It's like you have to always leave a contingency, you know what I'm saying? Like be really careful. So prayer properly done is, Dad, you promised. And if we pray according to his will, we know that he hears us. He did indeed promise and loves to do what he said he was going to do. And if we know that he hears us, because we prayed according to his will and said, Dad, you promised, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of him. …
… on your own name and reputation. Here's number four. 1 John 5, verse 14 and 15. 1 John 5, verses 14 and 15. Now, this is the confidence that we have in him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of him. Here's what this passage means. Here's what it's saying. If we ask anything according to his will, his will. See, sometimes God doesn't answer your prayer because it's not his will. And the reason we try to teach you the word is so that you'll know what God's will is. When you know what God's will is, you can ask it based on his will. But sometimes you're asking God for stuff that's not his will. Go ahead, look at that lady next to you. Say, God, I don't want you asking for somebody else's husband to be with you. That's not his will. …