Welcome to Enjoying Every Day Life with New York Times Best Selling 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, prayer is not an obligation, it's a privilege.

My goodness, what kind of an amazing thing is it for the God who created everything,

who has all power, who's everywhere all the time, and knows everything,

to say, you can come to me boldly, and ask me for whatever you want our need,

and I will listen and meet your need.

Hey, the really good news is you don't even have to be perfect to do that,

because when we pray in Jesus' name, well, there's such power in that name.

When we pray in Jesus' name, we're presenting to God all that Jesus is,

not what we are.

I don't go pray in my own name, and I hope you don't either.

We pray in His name.

Prayer, I think, many times, can become a burden to people,

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