I John 5:14, 15: "If we ask anything according to His will He heareth us. And if we know that He hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him." Notice again, God's order in prayer: first, emptied of all our own desires, then filled with Christ's desire, thus being filled with boldness to claim the fulfillment of these Spirit-born desires, and to "know that we have the petitions we desired" by an assurance of faith before we see or feel the answer. This is solid ground in prayer, and, we shall be thus kept from wavering during any trial of faith which may follow.
-- Carrie Judd Montgomery
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