How to Get Your Prayers Answered"

"How to Get Your Prayers Answered" - Bishop Martin Wilson, Th.M

Isaiah 55:8 kjv For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.

When dealing with God we have to seek the Holy Spirit's guidance so that we don't miss God trying to interpret him according to our carnal understanding.

To 'ask', according to our form of asking, when dealing with God is incorrect. To ask God for anything imply two incorrect assumptions that are contrary to scripture.

1. It implies the idea that you don't have what you're asking for.

2. That your desire is separate from you and you from if.

2 Peter 1:3 kjv According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

Just because something has not yet taken on a visible appearance in your reality does not denote the absence of the thing in your reality.

The verse declares God has given, past tense, us everything that pertains to life and godliness. Please understand, God is not impersonal, that is speaking of him giving each person specifically just what they need for their life.

To 'ask' God, according to our definition of asking, for anything his Word says he has already given would indirectly imply God is a liar.

James 4:2 ... ye have not, because ye ask not.

So how do we 'ask'?

We have to ask in Faith.

Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Ask in Faith is not acknowledging the absence of our desire, but it is the very opposite. Asking in Faith is not asking at all as we know it.

Asking in Faith is:

Acknowledging that what I desire God has already given and thanking him for now allowing it to appear in my reality.

Everything is ours right now!  However, it won't and cannot manifest until we can ask in Faith nothing wavering, having no doubt that it exist, it's already mine and I can have it.

Wilson | Media © 2013

Cell Churches

Cell Churches are not:

• CELL churches
• cell CHURCHES

In healthy Cell Church model there is a balance between Cell (small group meetings) and The Celebration (corporate gathering).

When we speak about a Cell Church we are talking about a relationship-based church. Everything in the church functions through and around cells and the relationships of the individuals in the group.

Traditional Churches

Traditional churches fall under the category of:

1. Program-based church: programs are formed to need needs.
2. Entertainment-based church: people come to get there weekend spiritual high.
3. Content-based church: where the church is a "teaching Center" for people that attend.

In cell churches is the goal of the small groups is to develop of model for people:

• to be connected to God
• to be connected to one another
• to raise up disciples in relational  manner.

It is not until we find ourselves doing these three functions that we can honestly say that we are fulfilling the Great Commandment and a Great Commission.

Wilson | Media 2013