Approach Prayer with a godly mindset

 God Hears your prayers and wants to give you good things within his will

    “Therefore I will look unto the Lord. I will wait for the God of my salvation:     My God will hear me” Micah 7:7

    “He that spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall    he not with him also freely give us all things?” Romans 8:32

  God has the power to accomplish miracles in your life.

   “Behold I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: Is there anything too hard for      me?”  Jeremiah 32:27

     God can make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. Isaiah      43:19

 Pray that God’s will be done. Surrender all to him. Seek to glorify God in 

your prayers.Ask big, because you serve a big God.

Six criteria (self-questions) to maintain a Godly mindset in prayer:

1. Does your request line up with God’s word? Examine your motives.

   “Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, tht ye may consume it      upon your lusts.

   James 4:3

  “And this is the confidence that we have in him, that if we ask anything      according to his    

   will, he heareth us: and if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask,     we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him” 1 John 5:14-15

2. Have you made a passionate, persistent, consistent plea?

   “Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God     in Christ Jesus Concerning you.” 1 Thessalonians 5:17-18

   “Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace    of God which passeth all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:6-7

3. Are you seeking God about everything that concerns your request?

   “But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness: and all these    things shall be added unto you” Matthew 6;33

   “And ye shall seek me and find me when ye shall search for me with all      your heart.” Jeremiah 29;13

4. Have you surrendered your will to God’s will?

     “Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my     will but thy will be done, Luke 22:42

5. Are you praying and waiting with faith and expectation?

   Fight the anxiety and fear and replace it with faith. Thanking him before you see results reaffirms your trust and faith in God.

   “Therefore I say unto you, what things soever you desire, when ye pray,      believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.” Mark 11:24

6. Are you thanking and praising him for the answer, sight unseen?

    “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. For by it, the elders obtained a good report. Through faith we      understand that the world was framed by the word of God, so that things with are seen were not made of things with do

     appear.” Hebrews 11:1-3