Grace
Fellowship Church
www.GraceDoctrine.org
Pastor/Teacher
Jim Rickard
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Memory Verse
Heb 4:16,
“Therefore let us draw near
with confidence to the throne
of grace, so that we may
receive mercy and find grace
to help in time of need.”
John 14:13-14
The Doctrine of Prayer
Part 6
D. Four Categories of How
God Answers your Petition
Prayers.
1. Each petition prayer has
two parts:
a) The petition which is
what you actually say;
(including intercessory)
b) The desire, which is
what you really want.
2. God views both parts of
your prayer as separate,
and answers each part
either positively or
negatively.
Petition - Desire
a. Positive - Negative
b. Negative - Positive
c. Positive - Positive
d. Negative - Negative
E. Why Prayer is Not
Answered.
1. The believer is under the
control of the sin nature.
Psa 66:18,
“If I regard wickedness in
my heart the Lord will not
listen to me.”
Pts. 2. & 3.
God (R+)
Man
(R + / -)
4. The love of God
provides the means and the
solution for effective
prayer through the grace of
God. Psa 66:19-20
Psa 66:19-20,
“But certainly God has heard;
He has given heed to the
voice of my prayer. Blessed
be God, who has not turned
away my prayer nor His
lovingkindness from me.”
5. Because the believer
rejects Bible doctrine.
Without Bible Doctrine
you have no understanding
of the mechanics of prayer
or God’s will.
1 John 5:14-15
6. Indifference to or
rejection of Bible doctrine
produces three categories
of ignorance which
guarantee the malfunction
of your prayer life.
a. Ignorance because of
indifference to doctrine.
b. Ignorance because of
wrong priorities. If wrong
priorities persist in your
spiritual life, you'll become
a loser with no prayer life.
c. Ignorance because of the
arrogance complex of sins:
jealousy, bitterness,
vindictiveness,
implacability, etc.
Arrogant believers never
get through to the throne of
Grace.
7. Failure to execute God’s
mandates.
1 John 3:22
1 John 3:22,
“Furthermore, whatever we
have asked, we receive from
Him, because we continue to
execute His mandates, and
we keep on doing what is
pleasing in His sight.”
a. Therefore, prayer is
related to your fulfillment
of the Plan of God and the
execution of the Christian
way of life.
b. To do "what is pleasing
in His sight" describes
spiritual adulthood when
the believer reaches the
peak in his prayer life.
c. Failure to execute His
mandates and to attain
spiritual adulthood
impedes, obstructs,
inhibits, and undermines
all effective prayer.
Grace Fellowship Church
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Tape # 09-041
Doctrine of Prayer, Part 6
Why Prayers Are Not Answered
Upper Room Discourse, Part 273
John 14:13-14; 1 John 3:22; 5:14-15; Pas 66:18-20
James H. Rickard Bible Ministries 2009