Immature Faith

Immature faith tries to manipulate God.  It takes spiritual shortcuts and formulas in hopes of receiving a "guarantee" for what was requested.  Immature believers regard prayer as a weapon to use to force God to make good on His promises.  True prayer is not human effort trying to persuade God or force God to meet our demands.

Mature believers' prayer is founded upon finding and coming into agreement with God's will.  We're to:

• Ask according to His will.
• Stand in faith.
• Pray with authority.
• If you don't know His will, ask!  [James 1:5]
• Believe that He hears your request(s).
• Pray tenaciously/persistently until the answer arrives.

Genuine prayer is not an attempt to get God to meet our desires and demands.  Instead it is submitting ourselves to His will.  In this way we OPEN the DOORWAY to His fullest blessing being released in our lives. 

ASK...KNOCK (pray and seek His face)...and the DOOR (of blessing) will be OPENED unto you.  You do your part and He will do His!  We "have not" so often because we "ask amiss!"  [See:  Matthew 7:7 and James 4:3]