" The Effectual Fervent Prayer of a Righteous Man Avails Much "
PRAYER REACHES GOD INSTANTLY AND PRAYER IS ANSWERED ACCORDING TO GOD'S PERFECT WILL FOR EACH OF US.
1 John 5:
13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.
14 This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.
15 And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.
And what is His Will?
The revealed will of God is that all grace is laid up in Christ, and all spiritual blessings are with him. So it is wise to come in the name of Christ, and make mention of his righteousness, and ask for his sake; to put up all petitions in faith, with fervency, in sincerity, and uprightness; with reverence, humility, and submission to the divine will, and with importunity; and God hears, even so as to answer, and grant our requests in his own time, though not always in ours; in some cases sooner, in others later, according to his infinite wisdom, and in his own way, which is always the best. (taken in part from " *John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible ")
* John Gill: He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier.
1 John 5:
13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.
14 This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.
15 And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.
And what is His Will?
The revealed will of God is that all grace is laid up in Christ, and all spiritual blessings are with him. So it is wise to come in the name of Christ, and make mention of his righteousness, and ask for his sake; to put up all petitions in faith, with fervency, in sincerity, and uprightness; with reverence, humility, and submission to the divine will, and with importunity; and God hears, even so as to answer, and grant our requests in his own time, though not always in ours; in some cases sooner, in others later, according to his infinite wisdom, and in his own way, which is always the best. (taken in part from " *John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible ")
* John Gill: He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier.
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