CONDITIONS OF SUCCESSFUL PRAYER:

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1. Contrition (repentance; preparing your heart)

   

"Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed…"  {James 5:16a}

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"if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land."  {2 Chronicles 7:14} 

• Called by my name

• humble yourself

• turn from wicked ways

• THEN WILL GOD… (the big THEN)

• Herein lies a formula for successful prayer.

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2. Whole-heartedness

 

"And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart." {Jeremiah 29:13}

 

3. Faith

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"Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.

{Mark 11:24} 

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4. Righteousness

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"Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much."      {James 5:16}

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5. Obedience

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"And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight."  {1 John 3:22​}