HOW TO RECEIVE AN ANSWER FROM GOD
Luke 1:5-23

FOUR ATTITUDES NECESSARY TO RECEIVE AN ANSWER FROM GOD…

1. Willingness To Let God Answer In His Own Time…

v. 13 "The angel said to him, `Don't be afraid Zacharias, your prayer had been heard'"

*You Keep On Praying Until One Of Three Things Happens:

You Get The Answer…

b. You Get The Assurance That Your Going to Get The Answer…

Mark 11 ; “When you pray believe that you've receive it, and you'll get it."

c. God Reveals To You That It’s Not His Will…

2. Willingness To Let God Answer In His Own Way…

Isaiah, "My ways are not your ways."

Ephesians 3:20 "But God is able to do even exceedingly above what you are able to think or imagine."

3. Willingness To let God Answer In His Own Power…His Own Ability

Romans 4; "Abraham staggered not."

4. Willingness To Let God Answer For His Own Purpose

Romans 1:7; "To all who are in Rome who are called by God called to be saints."
…..He says he's been praying for them –

v. 10, "In my prayers at all times and I pray now that at last by God's will the way may be opened for me to come to you." v. 15 "That is why I'm so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are in Rome."

Romans 15 – Paul’s Great Prayer….. His Desire Was To Go To Rome…

v. 20 "It has always been my ambition to preach the gospel where Christ was not known so that I would not be building on someone else's foundation."

v. 24 "I plan to do so when I go to Spain. I hope to visit you while passing through and to have you assist me on my journey there and I have enjoyed your company for a while."

*IE… “Pray that I'm going to have a prosperous journey."

Acts 28:16; "When we got to Rome, Paul was allowed to live by himself with a soldier to guard him."

*The Point: 1. Sometimes God Answers our Prayers Through Unlikely People

2. God Answers In His Own Time

3. God Answers For His Own Purpose