How to Overcome Worry by Dr. Winfred Neely

Author:Dr. Winfred Neely [Neely, Dr. Winfred]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Published: 2017-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

The Lord Jesus stresses the need for our persistence, perseverance, and earnestness in asking. In addition, we are told in Matthew 7:7 that those who habitually ask will receive; those who habitually seek will find; and to those who habitually knock, it shall be opened. Our heavenly Father is the request-granting God. God answers prayer.

It’s important to add that there is a danger of misusing this promise as carte blanche for selfish requests (James 4:3). Jesus is talking about making our requests with God-honoring motives.

Perhaps one of the reasons we do not make specific requests in the midst of our anxiety is that we are not expecting our heavenly Father to actually answer prayer. In With Christ in the School of Prayer, Andrew Murray points out one of the symptoms of a deep illness of practical atheism in the church. He writes:

One of the terrible marks of the diseased state of Christian life these days is that there are so many who are content without distinct the experience of answer to prayer. They pray daily, they ask many things, and they trust that some of them will be heard. But they know little of direct definite answer to prayer as the rule of daily life.… Prayer is supposed to have an answer.4 (emphasis added)

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