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.

God is able, Ephesians 3, 20 says,

God is able to do exceedingly, abundantly above and beyond all that we could ever dare.

To hope, ask our think, according to His power that works in us.

Jesus said, ask, you know, sometimes if I need my prayer life or my faith and prayer bolstered,

I know where most of the scriptures are that say, ask, and I will get them out and just read them.

And I've got them all this morning, but I don't have time to put all these up.

But the word, ask, means to request, to call for, to desire, and I love this part to make a demand on what's already yours.

Thank you.

God's already provided everything that we need.

When I go to the bank and it's my money in the bank, I ask politely, but I'm really just making a demand on what's already mine.

But you have not because you ask not.

We can't assume and presume with God.

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