VIKTORIOUS MINISTRIES

Mark 11:17

And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.

“My House Shall Be a House of Prayer” We are called to be houses’ of prayer, people of prayer; people who are dedicated to asking things of God. But what are we supposed to be asking for? The Bible says that you don’t get your prayers answered because you ask for the wrong thing.

So let me ask you; what are you asking for? Are you asking God to heal you? Are you asking God to prosper you?

Now, this may be the best way you know how to pray and this maybe the way you hear people around you pray. But if this is the way you pray; you’d better not expect God to answer your prayers, because He won’t.

Now, I don’t want to get “technical” with the Word of God and try to make some kind of “Perfect Method” to praying the “Right Way”.

No, this is not about the WAY you pray, but it is WHAT you ask God for.

Now, I first want to ask you something; why you pray for the things you do?

Because if you don’t have a scripture to back up what you pray for; I’ll let you in on a secret; your prayer won’t be answered. Why? Because God can’t answer faithless prayers. He never has, and He never will; so don’t waste your time.

In James 5 we see that we are to pray the prayer of faith. It says that it is the prayer of faith that will heal the sick. Notice though that it does not say that we are to ask God to heal the person. Understand one thing: The Bible will never degrade the price that Jesus paid on the cross and the blood that He shed for you.

No, when the Bible says that “By His STRIPES you WERE healed, that’s exactly what it means. When it says in the Word that He (Jesus) became poor so that you could be rich: that’s exactly what it means.

If someone had already given you something, would you ask them for it again?

So what should you be asking God For?

James 1:5

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

James 1:6

But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

I Corinthians 14:13

Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.

Philippians 1:9

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;

II Corinthians 13:7

Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.

Ephesians 3:20

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

What will make me happy? If we can answer this question, we can answer of life’s other questions. But it seems to me that it is the question itself that leads to our moments of depression (some more than others I might add). The focal point of the question is based on the noun ME.

Our quest for happiness cannot begin with ourselvess because it is the wrong starting point. When begin our pursuit of happiness it must be started at single point. In this case all roads do not lead to Rome.

And let me add this; the fore-fathers got it wrong when they said the pursuit of happiness; because happiness, as you may know, seems to flee at every opportunity it gets.

The problem is that most of us don’t look in the mirror enough. We look around at the circumstances and the conditions of our life. I think we forget sometimes that life is filled with empty boxes.

We mistakenly believe that goals we have achieved have brought us happiness; so we continue to pursue after things and these people, so that they can bring us joy.

Our problem can be summed up in one word: Foundation. If don’t have a foundation you will be up one day and down the next. See, most people don’t even know who they are. They just stumble around life being the person everyone else has told them to be.

They have no self worth, they have no self value and of course they are never happy. Until you have a purpose in life, you will never be significant. You’re biggest problem is your lazy. Sure, you say work hard…. But let’s be honest, doesn’t everybody “say” that they work hard?

You must become a person who is purpose driven. Notice I didn’t say purposes. You must narrow Your life goal down to one (not two) specific goal.

I’m sure you’ve been told all your life that you’re special and you made to do something very special; guess what, everybody’s special, everybody’s different, so don’t make such a big deal about YOU.

In fact get over yourself and stop letting your pride get in the way of who you really are. Stop trying to figure out who you really are and why you’re here on this earth.

Stop reading all those dumb books and start DOING this one specific thing!

What will make me happy? This is a question that haunts many people in today’s world. One thing I can assure you of is that the power of choice will not make you happy. They have actually proven that the third-world countries are happier than we are in North America. How about that; you give a person a choice and it makes them depressed.

That could be the biggest problem in North American culture is our self-centeredness. It’s always about ME. It’s never about my family; it’s never about my job or my career. It’s never about the client or about the person to whom you are working for; no it’s about you.

I mean the list could go on and on; disrespectful to Parents, Grandparents, relatives, friends, etc. We make our lives all about ourselves and then wonder why were not happy. Do want to know why you’re not happy?

It’s because you’re a terrible person. There I said it. And if you are mad and offended right now, or you have clicked off this page, you proved that I’m right. I mean, if you were really a good person you would be established in that fact and nothing I said about you would offend you.

But by you being offended that tells me three things.

One, you know what nobody else knows about your life. You know what you do; when you go home and you’re all alone, and nobody else is watching. You may put on a show in broad daylight; with your friends and family watching; but the person you really are is when you’re all by yourself; when only GOD is watching.

Two, you value other peoples opinions more than your own. Maybe you believe that you really are the failure that the people you care about say you are.

Maybe you’ve never felt loved your entire life and have tried to impress people by doing a “good job” and doing everything they ask you to do so that they will appreciate you. You seem to have a huge void in your life, and although you have taken many different avenues, you have not been able to fill it.

Three, you’re trying to change and you hate the person that you have become. Maybe you have struggled with addiction; maybe you’ve become that father or mother that you vowed you’d never become.

You believe that before you can ever love yourself, you’d first have to change yourself. And now there’s another problem creeping in; you have begun to accept that this is just “who you are”.

And now, you mad at me for pointing that out. Think for just a minute though; if I know what your problem is; maybe I have your solution…………….