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SERMON NOTES

INTRODUCTION • Last week we talked about healing prayer and how you get ______________________ to pray using II Chronicles 7:14. • This week we are going to deal with God not __________________ prayer. How do we deal with that? I. I THOUGHT THE BIBLE PROMISED • Jeremiah 33:3 (NIV), “Call to me and I will answer you...” • John 16:23-24, 14:13, “…if you ask the Father for anything in My name, He will give it to you…ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be made full. Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do…” • Why are there ____________________ we have all prayed and not received what we prayed for? • He answers four ways: Not yet _____________________ , In a while, In my way, No way. • That can be __________________ to deal with for all of us. • Clearly there are some things we won’t get until we get to heaven. II. THREE REASONS GOD SAYS NO • When you don’t know why, don’t act like you do. • Even Jesus asked __________________ ? On the cross He asked, “Why have you forsaken Me?” He didn’t get an answer. First Reason God Says No: He has a better and bigger ___________ . o He can see what we can’t see. My perspective is limited to me. o He sees the future—Hebrews 4:13 o Proverbs 2:8, “(God) guards the course of the just and protects the way of His faithful ones.”

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