Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, October 8th.

As a believer in Jesus, do you struggle with how to pray effectively?

Discover encouragement to deepen your commitment to prayer on today's podcast.

Prayer is the most precious, most powerful privilege that child of God has.

And isn't it interesting with that powerful privilege that so many of us come to the Lord

Jesus Christ so seldom to make our petitions to him?

Probably one of the reasons for that is that we don't really understand

if we are asking the right thing. And so because we're not sure what we're asking for is the

will of God, we sort of back off. So let me ask the question. Can you really know that if you're

asking the right thing? And if so, how? And that's what I want to talk

about in this message today, and that is confidence in prayer. If you'll turn to 1 John chapter 5,

and let's look at the 14th and 15th verses of that chapter, and let's answer some questions about

coming to the Lord with confidence and boldness in our praying.

Chapter 5, verse 14 and 15, and he says, and this is the confidence, the boldness, the assurance,

which we have before him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

And if we know that he hears us and whatever we ask, we know that we have the

request which we have asked of him. Now, that is a simple promise that God has given to us

concerning our prayer light, that if we ask anything according to His will, he hears us,

and if we know that he hears us, and whatever we ask, we know that we have the petition that we

desired of him or the request. But you say now i believe that but the problem is how do i know

that i'm asking the right thing when i come to him because so often i'm not sure that i am asking

the right thing as i bring my petition of my desires to God.

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