The Secret of Answered Prayer
JOHN 15:1-8 NKJV
“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.
I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.”
“The POWER of the CHURCH is always about how much we the church BEAR FRUIT for the Kingdom with our lives.”
MATTHEW 6:7 NCV
“And when you pray, don’t be like those people who don’t know God. They continue saying things that MEAN NOTHING, thinking that God will hears them because of their many words.”
TRUTH: GOD doesn’t hear every prayer, and therefore doesn’t answer every prayer.
1 JOHN 5:14-15 NIV
“This is the confidence we have in approaching God: THAT IF WE ASK ANYTHING ACCORDING TO HIS WILL, HE HEARS US. And if we know he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of Him.”
THE SECRET TO ANSWERED PRAYER
- INTIMACY
INTIMACY IS CONNECTED TO PROXIMITY
JOHN 15:4 NKJV
“Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.”
3 WAYS WE STAY CONNECTED TO GOD: **Pull up one at a time
- READING AND MEDITATING ON THE WORD
- WORSHIP
- PRAYER
IMPORTANT TRUTH:
FAITH BEGINS WHERE THE WILL OF GOD IS KNOWN
THE WILL OF GOD IS THE WORD OF GOD
FAITH BEGINS WHERE THE WORD OF GOD IS KNOWN
THE SECRET TO ANSWERED PRAYER
- INTIMACY
- TRANSFORMATION
JOHN 15:7 NKJV
“If you ABIDE IN ME, and MY WORDS ABIDE IN YOU, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.”
JAMES 4:3 NKJV
“You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.”
THE SECRET TO ANSWERED PRAYER
- INTIMACY
- TRANSFORMATION
- ALIGNMENT
JOHN 15:7 NKJV
“If you ABIDE IN ME, AND MY WORDS ABIDE IN YOU, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.”
MATTHEW 6:19-21 NKJV
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
MARK 11:24-26 NLT
“I tell you, you can pray for anything, and if you believe that you’ve received it, it will be yours. But when you are praying, first forgive anyone you are holding a grudge against, so that your Father in heaven will forgive your sins, too.”
ROMANS 12:1-2 NLT
“And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all HE HAS DONE FOR YOU. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him. Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.”
THE SECRET TO ANSWERED PRAYER
- INTIMACY
- TRANSFORMATION
- ALIGNMENT
- CONFIDENCE
JAMES 1:6-8 NIV
“But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do.”
1 JOHN 5:14-15 NIV
“This is the CONFIDENCE we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to HIS WILL, he HEARS US. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.”
2 CHRONICLES 7:14 NIV
“…if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”
“Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage…”
- Alexander Tyler, Scottish Historian
THE SECRET OF ANSWERED PRAYER | The Book of John
Pastor Dennis Rouse
November 7-8, 2026
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