Welcome to enjoying everyday life with New York Times bestselling author Joy Smire.

On today's program, Joyce will be teaching from her series, Prayers, That Get Answered.

When we pray, our hope is our prayers get answers.

But what happens when they don't seem to?

It can be very discouraging, causing us to doubt, and we might even ask ourselves,

Did I pray right? Did God even hear me?

The truth is, God loves hearing all our prayer, and He wants us to confidently come to Him.

Believing He will do great things.

Let's be encouraged with today's teaching and discover how we can have an exciting and powerful prayer life.

Now, here's Joyce with today's teaching.

Well, how many of you would like to...

Let me ask it like this. How many of you, when you pray,

you sometimes, or even a lot of the time, have this vague feeling that there's still something lacking that you didn't do that.

You should have done.

You know, the devil does not want us to pray with confidence.

He wants us to pray with fear and doubt and wondering.

I used to have the exact same thing.

As many years as I've been praying, and we'll continue to pray,

I used to have that feeling on a regular basis too,

like, you know, I should have said more, maybe I didn't pray about the right thing,

or maybe I just didn't say it the right way.

So a lot of times, when I keep having a repetitive problem,

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