IS GOD

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IS GOD LISTENING?
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Is God Listening?

• Matt. 77-8
• Ask, and it shall be given you seek, and ye
  shall find knock, and it shall be opened unto
  you For every one that asketh receiveth and he
  that seeketh findeth and to him that knocketh it
  shall be opened.

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Is God Listening?

• Matt. 79-11
• Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask
  bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a
  fish, will he give him a serpent? If ye then,
  being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your
  children, how much more shall your Father which
  is in heaven give good things to them that ask
  him?

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Is God Listening?

• Matt. 79-11
• Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask
  bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a
  fish, will he give him a serpent? If ye then,
  being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your
  children, how much more shall your Father which
  is in heaven give good things to them that ask
  him?

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Is God Listening?

• Prayer is one of the great privileges God offers
  to His children.
• Some may not have the proper degree of faith in
  prayer.
• Some may feel God wont answer their prayers,
  because they do not have enough faith.
• Some may ask Is God listening?

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Is God Listening?

• Zacharias and Elisabeth
• They were both godly people.
• Luke 16
• And they were both righteous before God, walking
  in all the commandments and ordinances of the
  Lord blameless.

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Is God Listening?

• Zacharias and Elisabeth
• They were both older people.
• Luke 17
• And they had no child, because that Elisabeth
  was barren, and they both were now well stricken
  in years.
• God heard their prayers!

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Is God Listening?

• Zacharias and Elisabeth
• An angel told them their prayers had been
  answered.
• Luke 111-12
• And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord
  standing on the right side of the altar of
  incense. And when Zacharias saw him, he was
  troubled, and fear fell upon him.

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Is God Listening?

• Zacharias and Elisabeth
• An angel told them their prayers had been
  answered.
• Luke 113
• But the angel said unto him, Fear not,
  Zacharias for thy prayer is heard and thy wife
  Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt
  call his name John.

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Is God Listening?

• Zacharias and Elisabeth
• Zacharias was surprised, indicating that he had
  not recently been praying for a child.
• Luke 118
• And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall
  I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife
  well stricken in years.

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Is God Listening?

• Zacharias and Elisabeth
• Dont you think they asked many of the same
  questions that we ask?
• Dont you think that they wondered why God hadnt
  answered their prayers?
• They had probably given up on a child.
• God hadnt forgotten their prayers, He simply
  delayed His answer.

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Is God Listening?

• II. How to deal with prayers apparently
  unanswered.
• DONT FORSAKE GOD!!
• Zacharias Elisabeth were both probably
  disappointed, but they did not turn their backs
  upon God.
• When he learned of the child, he was in Gods
  house.

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Is God Listening?

• II. How to deal with prayers apparently
  unanswered.
• He may have ceased praying for a son, but he had
  not quit going to Gods house to serve Him!
• Our supposed unanswered prayers just may be one
  of the ways in which God is testing our faith.

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Is God Listening?

• II. How to deal with prayers apparently
  unanswered.
• James 13
• Knowing this, that the trying of your faith
  worketh patience.
• Remember that the answer to our prayers may
  simply be delayed.
• GOD KNOWS BEST!

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Is God Listening?

• II. How to deal with prayers apparently
  unanswered.
• He knows best when what we need.
• Matt. 625
• Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for
  your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall
  drink nor yet for your body, what ye shall put
  on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body
  than raiment?

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Is God Listening?

• II. How to deal with prayers apparently
  unanswered.
• He knows best when what we need.
• Matt. 626
• Behold the fowls of the air for they sow not,
  neither do they reap, nor gather into barns yet
  your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not
  much better than they?

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Is God Listening?

• II. How to deal with prayers apparently
  unanswered.
• He knows best when what we need.
• Matt. 626
• Behold the fowls of the air for they sow not,
  neither do they reap, nor gather into barns yet
  your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not
  much better than they?

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Is God Listening?

• II. How to deal with prayers apparently
  unanswered.
• Our prayers must be according to His will He
  knows best.
• I John 514
• And this is the confidence that we have in him,
  that, if we ask any thing according to his will,
  he heareth us

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Is God Listening?

• II. How to deal with prayers apparently
  unanswered.
• Remember that we must be righteous.
• James 516
• The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man
  availeth much.
• God has never promised to answer the prayers of
  an unrighteous man.

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Is God Listening?

• II. How to deal with prayers apparently
  unanswered.
• Remember Gods perspective.
• Just think of all the contradictory prayers that
  God receives.
• The farmer prayers for rain.
• Next door the contractor prays for clear weather.

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Is God Listening?

• We must trust that what ever God does for us is
  best.
• We may not understand some of the answers,
  therefore, our faith must takes over.
• As Gods children, He will supply our needs, to
  some of our wants He may say NO.

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Is God Listening?

• PRAYER IS POWERFUL!
• What Jesus said in Matt. 77-11
• IS TRUE!
• The prayer that Jesus spoke of was one prayed by
  a righteous man in accordance with Gods will.

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Is God Listening?

• Do not neglect your prayer life.
• Make prayer a active part of your life.
• God answers prayers in three ways.
• YES
• NO
• WAIT AWHILE
• GOD IS LISTENING!

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Is God Listening?

• To pray with hope of an affirmative answer one
  must obey the gospel.
• Hear Rom. 1017
• Believe Heb. 116
• Repent Luke 133
• Confess Christ Acts 836-37
• Be baptized Acts 238
• Remain Faithful Rev. 210

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