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Prayer Secret #2 – The Will of God

Prayer Secret #1 – establishing a good, personal, intimate relationship with God the Father will now get you into the door with Him. It will get you to the point where God will now listen and consider each of your prayer requests.

Prayer Secret #2 is the next step when approaching God with a specific prayer request. This one seems to be so easy to grasp, but many Christians keep violating this basic common sense principle. Prayer Secret #2 is making sure that your prayer request always lines up with the will of God for your life.

Prayer Secret #2 – The Will of God

I have a pet saying when it comes to this principle. The saying is, “Father always knows best. God always knows what is best for you in all situations – you do not! God’s knowledge and wisdom is always perfect – yours is not! God knows what all of your future will hold for you – you do not! Too many Christians are constantly asking God for things that He does not really want them to have.

Here is the main Scripture verse where this basic revelation is being given to us by the Lord:

“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.” (1 John 5:14)

Interpretation – God hears your prayer only if the prayer request is in His perfect will for you and your life. If it is not, then the above verse is implying that He will not hear your prayer, and thus will not grant the prayer request.

This is where each Christian has to really get a grip on any specific prayer requests they are presenting to God. If God comes back letting you know that what you are asking for is not in His perfect will for you and your life, then you have to let it go, trust that God knows best, and move on.

When you approach God the Father with a specific prayer request – this is very serious business. You are asking God to bring something to you that normally would not be coming your way. You are asking God to supernaturally bring or allow this request to come your way through Him.

So the first thing you have to do before approaching God with your specific prayer request is to make sure that your prayer request is in His perfect will for you and your life. There are several ways you can do this.

1. Analyze Your Prayer Request

Sometimes it is quite obvious that the request is needed and will be in God’s perfect will for you and your life. You do not even need to pray about whether or not it will be in His will for you and your life. The answer is already obvious and you can go ahead and shoot your prayer through.

A good example would be is that maybe you have just lost your job. You will now have to go to God and ask Him to lead you to the next new job He will want you to have. You already know this request will be in His perfect will for your life because you now need a new job to survive and put food on the table. This is quite obvious, and you can now go ahead and start pressing in and praying to God that He lead you to the next new job that He will want you to have.

Sometimes the request is not so obvious as to whether or not it will be in God’s will for you. Maybe you are dating someone and you would really like to marry this person. However, God has not voiced His opinion on the issue yet.

The way to properly handle this is to go to God and ask for His perfect will on the situation – whether or not you should marry this person. If you really love this person and really want to marry them, the best way to word your prayer is to tell God you would really like to marry this person, but you will only marry this person only if it will be in His perfect will for you to do so.

This way you are on safe ground with God in the way that you have worded the request. You have voiced your opinion on the matter, but you have also let Him know that He knows better than you do as to who you should be marrying in this life, and that you will not marry this person unless it will be in His perfect will for you to do so.

2. The Holy Spirit

The other way to approach this is to simply ask the Holy Spirit if you should be approaching God the Father with the specific prayer request. I believe that the Holy Spirit knows most, if not all of the time, whether or not God will answer your specific prayer request. You can save yourself a lot of travailing and praying by getting the Holy Spirit’s answer before you waste your time and God’s time by praying on a certain issue.

For those of you who have established a good inside connection with the Holy Spirit, the above is rather easy to do. You simply tap into Him, ask His opinion, and most of the time you will pick it up with an “inner knowing” from Him as to whether or not you should proceed any further in approaching God with the specific prayer request.

For those of you who have not yet established this kind of inner connection with the Holy Spirit, you can still go ahead and ask Him, and He will somehow get through to you as to whether or not you should be praying to God on a particular issue.

Now here are 3 short powerful stories that will really illustrate the importance of making sure that all of your prayer requests always line up with the perfect will of God for your life.

Three Stories

1. STORY #1 – About 10 years ago, a friend of mine told me this story and I will never forget it. One of her girlfriends had been dating a man for about two years. Everything was going great. She got to the point where she was now wanting to marry the man. She went before God and started praying, asking God if she should marry him. God came back with a one-line answer and the answer was, “He is sufficient for now.”

This type of an answer obviously was not good enough for her, so she kept pressing God for an answer as to whether or not she should marry this man. God came back with no further answers every time she asked. After about 6 months of continuing to ask God for His opinion on this matter and not getting any additional answers, she decided to make her own decision and marry the man without waiting for God’s confirmation or approval.

Six months into the marriage relationship, this man’s dark side all of a sudden started to emerge. He started to physically abuse her. The beatings got so bad that she had no other alternative but to divorce the man for fear he was going to end up killing her.

I have found from personal experience that whenever God is silent on a specific prayer request, this means to hold your position and do nothing until you receive further word from Him as to whether or not you should move in the direction that you are looking to move into.

2. STORY #2 – Here is another perfect example on this. Another one of my friends was dating a man for about 1 year. She too started asking God if she should marry him. She got no answer from God for at least 3 months. Again, she got impatient waiting for God to answer her. She went ahead and married the man without any leading from the Holy Spirit to do so, and no confirming activity from the Lord that she should marry the man.

One year into the marriage, she found out that her husband had been having an affair behind her back with one of his secretaries during the entire year that they had been married! They were divorced shortly thereafter.

Do you see what happens when you go against the perfect will of God on a specific request? Total death can result. In these two cases, both girls saw their marriages end up in divorce because they were not patient enough to wait for God’s answer on their specific requests! They were both praying for marriages that obviously were not in the perfect will of God for their lives. This is why I say God always knows best.

God knew the one man had a dark side that was going to emerge once he married the girl. He knew the other man would not stay faithful once he got married to the second girl. Neither girl could have known these things were going to occur. But God does know all these things and what our futures will hold for us – and this is why your prayer requests have always got to be within His perfect will for your life or the consequences could be disastrous like they were in these two stories!

3. STORY #3 – The third story is my own personal story. About 20 years ago, I was dating a girl for about one year when she got diagnosed with cancer. The doctors told her she had a 50/50 chance of making it. She immediately started chemo and the rest of the appropriate cancer treatments. I took her to see Joyce Meyer for a healing, along with some of the other ministers in our area who were supposed to have the gift of healing operating through their ministries.

None of the ministers were able to bring any type of healing to my girlfriend. I then started to try and pray myself to see if I could get God to heal her. I will never forget what happened when I did. As I approached God the Father with the request, I felt the Holy Spirit put up a shield between me and God the Father. I initially ignored the shield and continued to try and pray through to God for this request.

As I started praying the appropriate words, I saw my words travel about two feet in front of my mouth and then drop straight to the ground. I could tell my words were not “hitting” God. I then felt the Holy Spirit start to literally pull back on my words as I was trying to release them to God. There was no anointing on my words. I had no wind at my back from the Holy Spirit to be approaching God with this specific request. I was really straining in trying to get my words to reach God the Father.

After about the 5th or 6th time when trying to pray to God for her healing, I immediately stopped and asked God if I should even bother to continue to pray on this issue due to the resistance I seemed to be picking up from the Holy Spirit.

I then received an immediate answer. I was given a strong knowing that God did not want to heal her and that it was His perfect will that she be brought home to Him – and if I continued to try and pray for this healing against His will, that I would just be expending useless energy. He made it loud and clear that His mind was already made up on the issue and that I was to let it go.

He then conveyed to me as to why He was not going to consider healing her. Long story short, my girlfriend was 40 years old when she came down with the cancer. 8 years prior to this, she got diagnosed with the beginning stages of emphysema. The doctors told her that if she did not quit smoking, that she would end up in a wheelchair and on an oxygen tent on a permanent basis.

For whatever reason, she would not quit smoking and she continued to smoke for another 8 years. The emphysema was starting to break into the next level and she still would not quit. She then broke out with the cancer. God made it very clear to me that He gave her 8 years to clean up her act, to heed the warnings from the doctors and to quit smoking.

Our bodies are a direct gift from God, and He expects all of us to do the best we can with them – especially in the area of taking proper care of them. When she refused to take proper care of her body by giving up smoking, God decided He was not going to heal her and that she would have to be brought home much earlier than He would have really liked.

I believe to this day that had my girlfriend quit smoking 8 years before coming down with this cancer, that there would have been a very good chance that God would have healed her of the cancer. But because she did not take proper care of her body, God had no natural desire to want to heal her when this emergency presented itself. And God gave her plenty of time to get her act together before this cancer hit – 8 years!

I did not tell my girlfriend what I felt God had conveyed to me. I did not want to cause her to lose hope in the event I had not properly heard from God on this issue. She tried several other healing ministries, along with continuing all of the cancer treatments, but nothing worked. She died one year later after getting diagnosed with the cancer.

Conclusion

1.  As you can see from the above three stories, you can save yourself a lot of blood, sweat, and tears when praying to God if you can pick it up ahead of time whether or not your specific prayer requests should be brought before Him for His consideration. This is the beauty of the ministry of the Holy Spirit. One of His jobs is to help us in our prayer life with God the Father.

The Holy Spirit will always know whether or not God will want to answer our specific prayer request. By connecting up with the Holy Spirit on a specific prayer request, you will go a long way in being able to decide when to approach God in prayer and when not to.

For those of you who have not got this far in your own personal relationship with the Holy Spirit in order to be able to pick Him up and read His movements, you can still approach both Him and God the Father before you attempt to pray and just simply ask God if it will be in His perfect will that a specific prayer request be put before Him.

I have found that God will always come through loud and clear on this issue. Remember, God wants to establish a loving personal relationship with you – and in this personal relationship will be the benefit of being able to approach Him with your specific prayer requests.

2.  God really wants to show you how to play the prayer game with Him. It is prayer that will pull down major miracles from God. You just have to learn what the ground rules are and how to play the game with Him. The Bible lays down all the ground rules that you will need to know in order to become a very effective and powerful prayer warrior for the Lord.

For whatever reason, God has the big picture set up in that He will not move many of the times on a certain situation unless we first go into serious prayer with Him. The art of prayer is a powerful tool in the hands of a Spirit-filled believer. God can be moved to answer prayer no matter how dire the circumstances. You just need the knowledge on how to properly approach the Lord in order to get Him to move on certain situations.

I think you will find the remaining prayer secrets very interesting, as they will all give you several different options and strategies in which to approach God with on your specific prayer requests. I believe with knowledge comes power. With knowledge will come the ability to know how to properly play the prayer game with the Lord.

I will leave you with one last thought. One of the benefits of having established a true personal relationship with God the Father is the ability to be able to approach Him with your specific prayer requests. Think of the consequences and the possibilities of this privilege that we now have with God the Father.

God the Father has the full supernatural power to do or accomplish whatever He should so desire. The Bible says that “With God NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE.”

God loves to answer prayers. Prayers to God can save lives, change circumstances, and prevent catastrophes. The Bible says that God is looking to “show Himself strong” on behalf of those who have established a true, loving, personal relationship with Him. However, many Christians do not fully realize the power and potential they have if they would simply learn how to properly pray to God to get Him to move on certain situations.

Many people are so wrapped up in themselves and their own lives, they fail to see how their own prayers to God can help someone else out who may be in a dire situation. One of the prayer secrets I will be discussing shortly is the power of intercession – the ability to stand in the gap for someone else, approach God as his advocate, and pray to God to help them out of a dire situation.

Many people do not really know how to properly approach and pray to God the Father. As a result, people are either dying early before their time is really up, or they are forced to live under tragic circumstances due to no fault of their own. Accidents can happen. Bad things can happen. But prayers to God the Father can either prevent the bad things from happening before they happen, or they change the situation for the better once the bad thing has happened.

Remember, our God is in the life-saving business! Our God is a God of miracles. He is just looking for true prayer warriors to pull down these miracles that He is only to anxious to release!

Think of the possibilities that we all have with this privilege that we have with God the Father – to be able to boldly approach His throne for prayer anytime, anywhere, and for any situation – to be able to save the day for someone who may be at death’s door!

This is the call of the Eagle. A true Eagle of God is a “master prayer.” He has learned the fine art of being able to properly and effectively pray to God the Father in order to literally move mountains when needed. Nothing is impossible for a true Eagle of God because he knows nothing is impossible with the God he serves.

Mark my words! God will be raising up an army of Eagles in the coming years that will fly with the power and anointing of God such as the world has never seen before or will ever see again. The Bible says in the latter days just before Jesus comes back, that an army will raised up. The verse is Joel 2:2. It reads:

“A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, like the morning clouds spread over the mountains. A people come, great and strong, the like of whom has never been; nor will there be any such after them, even for many successive generations.”

The rest of the verses then go into how powerful this army will be and the exploits they will do under God’s anointing and power.

For more information on this coming army – see my article titled “Prophecy from Jesus to Mary Baxter on Joel’s Army to Come” under the “Prophecies” section. A woman by the name of Mary Baxter received a direct Word from Jesus about this army and who He will be calling to be a part of it.

This was a very powerful Word given to this woman, and I believe there is a strong possibility that this army will be coming out of this generation!

Honor

Thursday 25th of June 2020

Hi, My name is honor, i bumped on this page while reading , i am very sad tonight and i cant sleep..... i feel totally broken , as if God left me. I had a boyfriend that i loved so much, with all my heart, but he didnt love me the same,he was leading me on at first and when i asked him to define the relationship, he broke up with me .

We made up and broke up, until he told me he was returning to the state, where he got arrested, the first time he reached out to me when he came out on bail before his sentence, he broke up with me and told me he accepted jesus bla bla ... and he would want to be friends instead, because i still liked him, i agreed to it.

We have been friends now for 2years, but i cant get over him. He is a nice guy now, changed and very caring. He is in jail now though, he reaches out to me all the time, sending me mails and encouraging me on my job, my school and even on love... he calls me all the time..... what should i do? I was very local and nice to me , he dint take care of me then, now he is acting nice.... should i cut him off completely or just remain nice, because i no they truly needs friend to be there for them

Chris

Sunday 24th of November 2019

I'll take 1 more shot at this, my comments never seem to fly. (Like an Eagle BTW) I like to share story's, I have a cool 1 about an Eagle encounter too. I should probably put under ur eagle analogy which I liked very much.. Another writing that is a blessing to me, I'm so sorry that ur girlfriend went home early. Love the fact that u will see her again. I believe the part about smoking I was meant to read. I too have been struggling this addiction. Maybe the last stronghold of sin God is trying to rid me of , I do believe it's holding me back from complete surrender. Short story, moments after seeing let's say a planted seed come to fruition. And I had cried aloud I'd sure like to see God win one, though I know something said or prayed might not come to pass for years. ( (The last 2 strongholds of sin took me more than 20) to learn to hate the sin as God does.. Anyways, someone had called to say how much better they were doing and thank you . One of the best feelings ever. I found myself having a " God moment" standing under trees by a creek, I found myself wanting to live, move forward knowing the feeling of doing God's work, that started with a simple act of kindness, & turned miraculous.. but my health is not good, always feel like I only have 6 mo. - 2 or 3 yrs. All at once I thought hey 10 more years..? God said " granted" but I know I have to take better care of my body, its only by God's will I'm alive now, I have to quit smoking, ur girlfriends story just might extend a life today, and thats kinda how it works isn't it? Love this site, such a blessing, u are really maticulous , 1 cig left in my pack and so it goes.. I'll keep you updated. Cjp.

Mide

Tuesday 4th of June 2019

Please pray for me,there is this man i met recently via a friend and i am so in love with him. We talk for long hours on the phone, we are always so excited to talk to each other.infact ,talking to eachother has become a routine, we talk ourselves to sleep everynight. I asked him some few days ago to set a meeting so we could meet but he just kept saying hes really busy at the moment, my fear now is am i the one in love with him in my head or is it that he doesnt feel for me, that he probably just sees me as a chat mate. Before i met this man at all, i did like a 10days prayer for single women. i swear i heard his name in my dreams the day i finished the prayer section , we got hooked that same week by a friend whom i have never spoken to about relationship . I dont want to waste my time falling in love with someone who sees me as just his friend, please advise me

Colleen Palmer

Thursday 6th of February 2020

I met a guy in an AA meeting a year ago I felt an instant connection with, then saw him at church a few weeks later, since then we have been sitting together and having fun. I was definitely interested in getting to know this guy more. In my head we were already a couple. I then asked him about his feelings for me. He said he was really busy in his life and he didn't have the time to commit to a deeper relationship. I continued to obsess about him and still do. When I go to God about this relationship there is no real answer. I've now pushed him away so he never calls me and I always initiate conversation, email texts etc... Although he calls back when I ask him to he is still not showing any further interest than friends. I am now stuck and am struggling to move on. My friends have told me to stop going to places he is at (that church) but I'm drawn to it like an addition. I pray that you dont get wrapped up into someone that is not willing to commit the time and energy you deserve and crave. Its been nothing but depressing for me the last year. As I sat here crying as I write this, anyone reading this please pray for me that I can move on and find my happiness again.

Lee

Tuesday 6th of August 2019

Hi Mide, :) I advise you to pray asking God about this man. After praying and asking God about a man I almost married, God ended the relationship a week after. If that man isn't from God, HE will end it early on. Pray.Only GOD can guide you according to HIS Will for your life. You can also pray telling God you want to put this man on the altar and if he isn't from God for you, then ask God to take him away from your life.

Remember, God gave Eve to Adam when he was asleep. The man is supposed to be pursuing you, not the other way around. Pray and ask God to guard your heart until it's the man HE wants for you. When you are feeling confuse, negative feelings, etc...remember, it's Satan and the enemy can use anyone to detour you from God's purpose for your life. God is not a God of confusion. Google on youtube.com and watch Pastor Michael Todd's sermons on "relationship goals." He's awesome and a man of God! :) I hope this helps!

Angela Hughes

Wednesday 20th of February 2019

First let us give the Lord thanks for the abundance of all things.Please pray that the Lord would deliver his people from evil men; That the Lord would preserve his people from violent men, who plan evil things in their heart and stir up wars continually. Pray against the spirit of anti Christ,false witness,terrorism,leviathan,jezebel,witchcraft,hatred and violence. Pray for world wide repentance that people would turn to God, so that he will forgive their sins. Please pray and intercede without ceasing that God's will be done in the lives of the world's leaders and for our leaders to seek God and listen to Him. Pray that they would be surrounded by godly counsel and, that President Trump and the world leaders would personally know God and the salvation found through faith in Jesus Christ alone. That we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. God can turn the hearts of kings. Earnestly pray that the people of America and its leaders will humble themselves and seek the Lords face and turn from their wicked ways. Pray that the Lord would hear from heaven and forgive our countries sins and heal our land. God Bless America Pray that the Lord would grant peace in America, that we may lie down and no one will make us afraid. That the Lord would remove wild beasts from the land, and that the sword will not pass through our country and that President Trump along with our leaders be filled with power, with the Spirit of the Lord, and with justice and might to declare the sins of Gods people. Please pray for revival and that the Lord would pour out his spirit on his servants, throughout the world both men and women. Pray for the peace of Israel. Gods will be done on earth as it is in heaven.In Jesus Name, Amen.

God hears

Sunday 25th of November 2018

The lord is with you all,keep praying and fasting, he will hear your cry from the heavens and he is the only true God strong in battle, he has manifested in my life and am here to give testimony, he answered my prayer and I forever trust him

Sara

Saturday 9th of November 2019

Good Morning, This my first time being on your web site. I am truly blessed my reading your article on prayer #2. It is my great desire to read your other articles as well. For several days the Holy Spirit have been dealing with me on how our lives are already mapped out by God & how we meet our future of God's will for our lives. So I got up early this morning seeking more information on this matter. I have been attending this particular church for approximately 3 months. I have been praying for God to show me my Pastor. The scripture say let God's word be established by two or three witnesses. My first & second witness , "he is not your Pastor". Third witness " wait on the Lord". A impatient & a restless spirit of pressure have been on me. Last Sunday, (I) said (I) might as well join this church what's it going to hurt, after all it is God's will that I have a Pastor. Your article is my fourth witness. In the 3rd personal story when you said how you had been approaching God still for the same request over & over again "how you felt the Holy Spirit put a shield between you & the Father." This too have happened to me in this situation also but flesh always war against the spirit. God has truly answered me to wait on him because I have been seeking for an answer. God is so faithful! The word said if we sincerely seek him, we shall find him! I thank God for your anointed ministry & your words of wisdom! It is my desire to grow in knowledge, to learn God's ways & be a partaker of his blessings for my life & to help others to know him as well. Thank you again!

Anoynmous

Tuesday 28th of May 2019

I have been praying and fasting to get my ex back. Please pray for me for my ex to start loving me again, feel for me, treat me right and respect me and come back to me. recently he asked me to return all his stuff back. I am so disheartened but I still have faith in God, I do lose faith sometimes but I am continuing to fast and pray for him as I still have hope that god will do miracle in my life soon. Please pray for me for him to come back. Amen