HOW TO GET ANSWER TO PRAYER RIGHT ON TIME: STEP BY STEP KEYS TO EFFECTIVE PRAYERS.

HOW TO GET ANSWER TO PRAYER RIGHT ON TIME: STEP BY STEP KEYS TO AN EFFECTIVE PRAYER:

God always answers prayers but most times we get too scared to even noticed it. When we pray, there are some certain things we ought to put in place to get fast answers to our prayers. God is never happy to see that your prayers are not answered. There are some things we need to put in place in order to get quick answers to our prayers. Though we can never force God to answer our prayers because he is God and he chooses whom to give answer to his or her prayer but there are certain conditions that when duly  applied in the course of our prayers, it gets God to be involved immediately and when he does, we get speedy answer to our prayers. 

Step by step approach to a speedy answer to prayer:

You must learn to keep your faith very strong in God for when you pray without faith it is as good as not praying at all.
MATTHEW 38:15 "And he did not do many miracles there because of their lack of faith". I refer you to read HEBREWS chapter 11. As Christians we must never stopped asking the Holy Spirit to help us build our faith in God. It annoys God when you pray and doubt his ability to do that which you ask of him. Lack of faith in God destroys the effectiveness of our prayer woefully. 

The bible tells us in PHILIPPIANS 2:9-11 "Therefore God exalted Jesus Christ to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,  in heaven and on earth and under the earth,and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Anything at all, be it sicknesses, diseases or whatsoever problem bows to the name of Jesus Christ. There is great power in the name of Jesus. The name of Jesus does wonders. See also JOHN 14:6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me". It follows here that when we pray to God without using the name of Jesus Christ as a channel to God then our prayers amount to nothing because just as Jesus said " no one comes to the father except through me".
JOHN 10:9 I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture.
ACTS 4:12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”


The first thing you do as soon as you kneel to pray is to ask God for forgiveness of sins both known and unknown. Our sins bring us short of the glory of God. ROMANS 3:23 "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God". Asking God for forgiveness and being deeply sorry for all we have done comes up first before anything else in prayers.   
1 PETER 3:12  For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.
PROVERBS 15:29 "The Lord is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous". etc.
See also ISAIAH 59:1-2 " Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear".


Then worship God in the splendor of his holiness. PSALM 96:9-10 "Worship the Lord in the splendor of his holiness; tremble before him, all the earth, Say among the nations, “The Lord reigns .” He is God and there is non like him. He alone deserves our praise and worship. There is non like him, there has never been like him and there can never be like him. Give God the respect which only him deserves.

See EXODUS 23:25-26 " Worship the Lord your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you, and none will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will give you a full life span".
See also ROMANS 14:11"  It is written "As surely as I live,’ says the Lord, ‘every knee will bow before me, every tongue will acknowledge God."
See also PSALM 100:1-5 "Shout for joy to Yahweh, all you lands! Serve Yahweh with gladness. Come before his presence with singing.   Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name.For Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations".
Learn to live a lifestyle of praise to God. When we pray Angels take our prayers to God but when we praise, God comes down to the scene himself. Remember, we can pray amiss but we can never praise amiss. Our praises moves him into action for us. Learn to sing praises to God at least for thirty minutes everyday. God loves praise. He is highly delighted when we praise him. We can never pay God in any material form because he owns everything, and he lacks nothing. We owe God everything, our breath and every other thing that make us  and one of the ways we can use to pay him is by praising him sincerely from the bottom of our hearts. We all know that through praise Paul and Silas were set free from prison, the walls of Jericho fell down flat and the awesomeness of praise in 2ND CHRONICLES 20 when the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle. For more on praise,  PLEASE CLICK HERE

Show concern for God's kingdom by including it in your prayers each time you kneel to pray. Let God know how much you love him by doing this. It touches God to see that you are concern about his kingdom. When you do this, you are sure to get quick reply to your prayer because its touches God's heart when you do this and he sure will do for you what you ask of him. Don't be selfish by praying for your needs only. See MATTHEW 6:33 " But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well".


When you pray, pray also for the salvation of souls. Pray that more souls be won to God's kingdom. Pray that nothing keep believers away from God. Pray against believers falling into temptation. Pray for grace for all believers to abide in Christ forever. Pray to God to help all so that our love, trust and faith in him continue to grow stronger and stronger every second of the day. Never forget to pray for the salvation of souls and for guidance by the Holy Spirit for all to stay steady in the the faith. PLEASE CLICK HERE


Never forget to pray for others in the same situation with you  as well as those facing other life's challenges. Show concern for others by extending you prayers to them.
See PHILIPPIANS 2:3-4" doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself; each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others" .
See also JOB 42:10 "Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before" .
See also 1 TIMOTHY 2:1-4 "exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: for kings and all who are in high places; that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior; who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth" . 
See also ROMANS 8:34 "Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us".

When you pray make sure you intention is of good and not for your selfish interest. God is very wise, wiser than any human that has ever lived on earth. You cannot deceive him. You must come to his presence with the right motives and not desire to satisfy your worldly motives.
JAMES 4:6 "But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the proud, but shows favor to the humble.” .
JAMES 4:10 "Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up".
PROVERBS 22:4 "Humility is the fear of the Lord; its wages are riches and honor and life".
LUKE 18:9-14 "To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable: “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people, robbers, evildoers, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.  I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’ “But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’“I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”
PSALM 149:4 "For the Lord takes delight in his people; he crowns the humble with victory".
MICAH 6:6-8 "With what shall I come before the Lord and bow down before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,  with calves a year old?Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of olive oil? Shall I offer my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God".


We are human and we know that we are always full of  thoughts. Sometimes these thoughts are of good and sometimes of things not pleasant to God. This could as well happen during the time of our prayers, that is why we must always plead to the Holy spirit our intercessor to intercede on our behalf to God so our prayers could be a sweet smelling savor before God almighty.
It is also possible that sometimes unknowingly to us, during prayer, we say things opposite to what we actually mean and it takes the grace of the holy spirit for our prayers to get to God the way we actually met them. See REVELATION 8:1-5  "When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.