How to Pray
Without faith it is impossible to please our Father. So if you don't have the faith in the first place, don't waste God's time and yours with your prayer. God will hear your prayer but don't expect Him to answer. Now don't get down on yourself if you feel your faith is not the greatest. We all don't have the faith of Abraham but if you believe what this verse says, you have faith. How do we earnestly seek Him? We do that by studying His word, the Bible. Think of the Bible as our instruction manual for our life. We have questions? His word has the answers.
No amount of good works can compensate for lack of faith. After all said and done, when a man refuses to believe God, he is calling Him a liar. “He who does not believe God has made Him a liar” (1 John. 5:10), and how can God be pleased by people who call Him a liar?
Faith is the only thing that gives God His proper place, and put man in his place too. “It glorifies God exceedingly, because it proves that we have more confidence in His eyesight than in our own.”
Faith not only believes that God exists, but it also trusts Him to reward those who diligently seek Him. There is nothing about God that makes it impossible for men to believe. The difficulty is with the human will.
This is step two in our quest for a better prayer life. You have to better believe that Jesus Christ was the only begotten Son of God. Also you need to have faith in His works and believe that He is with our Father now in heaven. A good way to show God that you believe in Christ is to ask for things in His name.
We must forgive those that have sinned against us if we want to be forgiven."....leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift" [Matthew 5:24].
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