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    Getting Answers to Prayer: Important Lessons For Communing With God Effectively
    Getting Answers to Prayer: Important Lessons For Communing With God Effectively
    Getting Answers to Prayer: Important Lessons For Communing With God Effectively
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    Getting Answers to Prayer: Important Lessons For Communing With God Effectively

    By Ela Nosa

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    “...engaging, sincere, eye-opening, very inspiring!”

    HONEST. WITH NO FLUFF.
    STRAIGHT TO THE POINT.

    GETTING ANSWERS TO PRAYER talks about prayer, an important subject often discussed, and which cuts across every religion on the face of the earth.

    Answering personal questions, the author seeks to draw from her personal experiences and all she has learnt in her few years of walking with God. It gives a fresh take on prayer with practical examples, and is based on the word of God.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEla Nosa
    Release dateJul 5, 2017
    ISBN9781370356867
    Getting Answers to Prayer: Important Lessons For Communing With God Effectively
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    Ela Nosa

    ELA NOSA loves conversations about God, music, quiet places, and the arts. She expresses herself through writing, music, and talking sometimes.Having a zeal for turning people to God and making them all they should be, she sometimes spends her time counselling others.She lives in Abuja, Nigeria.

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      Getting Answers to Prayer - Ela Nosa

      MY STORY

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      Choosing to write a book on prayer was a result of discoveries I had made through personal experiences. As a result of many frustrating and sad periods, I found myself learning and studying about prayer, often having the same questions which I asked year in, year out:

      -  What is prayer?

      -  Why do some people seem to have answers and others do not?

      -  Is there a secret key that is accessible to a few?

      -  Would I ever be able to access that key?

      -  Would I ever be good enough to access that key?

      -  Does God really answer prayers? Maybe those who had answers were just lucky (The stars were in alignment at the time they got their miracle. Just kidding!)

      ––––––––

      These were just a few questions I needed answers to. The list was, of course, endless. Everywhere I saw a book on prayer I bought it hoping there would be something extra I needed to learn and could apply. I needed to find out if there was something I was missing and how I could get answers ... faster.

      I figured it was a science. There had to be a technique, a skill, a method I could apply to get what I wanted.

      Let me go back a little...

      _______

      I grew up in a Christian home where I saw first-hand different ways people prayed and was taught different kinds of prayers. I discovered in my home two schools of thought, majorly, on dealing with life’s issues, and the school of thought you chose to follow or submit to determined how you prayed.

      THE FIRST school of thought which my dad followed was built on Romans 8:28:

      And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

      This was interpreted to mean whatever happens to the believer, irrespective of what it was, would ultimately yield good. As a result, you were to accept and acknowledge each situation as being allowed by God.

      Under this school of thought you did not have to pray to God about a thing over and over. He knew what you needed. You were not to repeat your prayers like the heathen. God was not deaf or dull; He heard you the first time.

      Subsequently, you were just to keep thanking Him over and over because He had taken care of what you desired. This form of prayer was referred to as asking in faith.

      Common phrases spoken were:

      -  ‘Nothing happens to a believer without God allowing it.’

      -  ‘If it wasn’t allowed by God, it would not have happened. Do not fight or resist this. Simply trust and keep following God.’

      -  ‘Keep thanking Him.’

      -  ‘God knows what you need. He will take care of you.’

      -  ‘Storms are a part of life. Life is about living through the storms.’

      -  ‘Don't be swayed by or attached to earthly things. God gives, God takes.’

      -  ‘... and even if you die in this affliction, Heaven, a much better place, is waiting for you.’

      ––––––––

      Under this school of thought it seemed okay to be poor, sick, and afflicted here on earth. Your job was simply to tell Him what you wanted, remind Him of His promises, thank Him for answering, and go about your normal business. He would send the answer when He pleased. After all,

      He makes all things beautiful in His time...

      Ecclesiastes 3:11

      Emphasis: His time.

      Here on earth. Or in eternity...

      ––––––––

      THE SECOND school of thought which my mum (and many women I find) believed was built on Matthews 11:12:

      And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.

      The interpretation? Only good comes from God. All evil comes from the devil. If good comes, thank God and testify about it. But if evil comes, forcefully and violently resist it. It is contrary to the life of the kingdom which God promised the believer.

      Under this school of thought I learnt about the disturbing-God-constantly kind of prayer. This was fuelled by preachings and testimonies of people who prayed and prayed over an issue and got results. It talked of never letting up until you got what you were praying for.

      ‘The Power of Prayer’ was a term constantly used. Common phrases referred to and spoken were:

      -  ‘Pray Until Something Happens (PUSH).’

      -  ‘Keep asking. Keep seeking. Keep knocking.’

      -  ‘Pray violently.’

      -  ‘The effectual fervent prayer of

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