PSK 150. Sermon — THE GOD WHO ANSWERS PRAYER!
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PSK 150. Sermon — THE GOD WHO ANSWERS PRAYER— ASK, SEEK, KNOCK!
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🕊️ *CHRIST’S GOOD NEWS MISSION*
Sunday Worship Service — 19th July 2026.
📅 *Liturgical Day: 8th Sunday After Pentecost.*
📖 *Bible Lesson: Luke 11:1-13; James 5:13-18.*
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✍️ Text: *_“So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.”_* — Luke 11:9 (NKJV).
💕🦅 THEME:
*THE GOD WHO ANSWERS PRAYER: ASK, SEEK, KNOCK! — _Heaven Is Not Deaf, God Is Not Distant, and Every Door You Knock Upon in Faith Shall Be Opened_*.
🎵 *OPENING HYMN MHB. 549 — _“What a Friend We Have in Jesus”_*
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1: WHAT a friend we have in Jesus,
All our sins and griefs to bear!
What a privilege to carry
Everything to God in prayer!
O what peace we often forfeit,
O what needless pain we bear,
All because we do not carry
Everything to God in prayer!
2: Have we trials and temptations?
Is there trouble anywhere?
We should never be discouraged —
Take it to the Lord in prayer!
Can we find a friend so faithful,
Who will all our sorrows share?
Jesus knows our every weakness —
Take it to the Lord in prayer!
3: Are we weak and heavy-laden,
Cumbered with a load of care?
Precious Saviour, still our refuge —
Take it to the Lord in prayer!
Do thy friends despise, forsake thee?
Take it to the Lord in prayer!
In His arms He’ll take and shield thee,
Thou wilt find a solace there.
(Joseph M. Scriven, 1855 — A beloved anthem of believing prayer, perfectly crowning this message of the God Who hears and answers every sincere cry of His children.)
🙏✝️❤️🔥 *SEVEN PROPHETIC PRAYERS*
(Preparatory — Before the Exhortation)
❤️🔥 *Prayer 1 — _Lord, Teach Us to Pray_*
Title: The School of Prayer Opens Today.
_“Now it came to pass, as He was praying in a certain place, when He ceased, that one of His disciples said to Him, ‘Lord, teach us to pray.'”_ — Luke 11:1 (NKJV).
*_Lord Jesus, as Your disciples cried in holy hunger — teach us to pray! Let every believer in this congregation graduate from shallow, routine, powerless prayer into the deep, authoritative, heaven-moving intercession that You Yourself modelled, in Jesus’ Name. Amen!_* ❤️🔥
❤️🔥 *Prayer 2 — _Ask and It Shall Be Given_*
Title: Bold Asking, Confident Receiving.
_“So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.”_ — Luke 11:9 (NKJV).
*_Father of every good gift, ignite a holy boldness in this congregation to ask — without hesitation, without embarrassment, without unbelief! Let every believer approach Your throne today with the confidence of a child before a generous Father, expecting to receive, in Jesus’ Name. Amen!_* ❤️🔥
❤️🔥 *Prayer 3 — _The Effectual Fervent Prayer_*
Title: Prayer That Avails Much.
_“The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.”_ — James 5:16 (NKJV).
*_Lord, transform the prayer lives of every member of this congregation from cold formality into effective, fervent, heaven-shaking intercession! Let the spirit of Elijah — who shut and opened heaven by prayer — rest upon this assembly, and let our prayers avail much, in Jesus’ Name. Amen!_* ❤️🔥
❤️🔥 *Prayer 4 — _Our Father in Heaven_*
Title: Prayer Rooted in Divine Relationship.
_“So He said to them, ‘When you pray, say: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name.'”_ — Luke 11:2 (NKJV).
*_Heavenly Father, let every prayer prayed in this congregation today arise from the deep, settled confidence of sonship — not religious duty! Let us hallow Your name with genuine awe, and let that reverence become the foundation of every request we bring before Your throne, in Jesus’ Name. Amen!_* ❤️🔥
❤️🔥 *Prayer 5 — _The Friend at Midnight_*
Title: Persistence That Cannot Be Denied.
_“I say to you, though he will not rise and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will rise and give him as many as he needs.”_ — Luke 11:8 (NKJV).
*_God of the persistent seeker, let the spirit of holy, unwavering persistence arise in this congregation! Where we have knocked once and retreated, let us knock again — and again — until heaven responds and every door yields to the authority of persistent, faith-filled prayer, in Jesus’ Name. Amen!_* ❤️🔥
❤️🔥 *Prayer 6 — _The Father’s Good Gifts_*
Title: A Father Who Gives Only Good Things.
_“If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”_ — Luke 11:13 (NKJV).
*_Good and generous Father, let every member of this congregation receive afresh the revelation of Your infinite generosity today! Destroy every lie of the enemy that portrays You as withholding, distant, or reluctant — and let faith in Your goodness explode in every asking, seeking, knocking heart, in Jesus’ Name. Amen!_* ❤️🔥
❤️🔥 *Prayer 7 — _Elijah’s Prayer That Moved Heaven_*
Title: A Congregation With Elijah’s Anointing.
_“Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.”_ — James 5:17 (NKJV).
*_Lord of heaven and earth, release the Elijah anointing of earnest, effective, climate-changing prayer upon this congregation! Let us be a people whose prayers alter atmospheres, shift seasons, and move the very hand of Almighty God — for the glory of Christ and the advancement of His Kingdom, in Jesus’ Name. Amen!_* ❤️🔥
✝️❤️🔥🦅 *EXHORTATION* 👑❤️🔥
✝️❤️🔥🦅 Theme: *“THE GOD WHO ANSWERS PRAYER: ASK, SEEK, KNOCK — _Heaven Is Not Deaf, God Is Not Distant, and Every Door You Knock Upon in Faith Shall Be Opened!”_* 👑❤️🔥
📖 *Bible Lesson: Luke 11:1-13; James 5:13-18* (NKJV)
📅 *Liturgical Day: 8th Sunday After Pentecost — 19th July 2026.*
✍️ Text: *_“So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.”_* — Luke 11:9 (NKJV).
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On 10th September 1846, Elias Howe — inventor of the sewing machine — sat defeated in his workshop. For years he had sought the solution to one mechanical problem that made his invention impossible: how to position the needle’s eye. Every attempt failed. Every door appeared permanently closed. Then one night, exhausted and despairing, he dreamed of warriors carrying spears — each with a hole near the tip. He woke with the answer: move the eye of the needle to the point. The door had been there all along — it simply required persistent seeking until it opened. What seemed like permanent closure was merely delayed discovery.
Beloved, Jesus presents the most breathtaking invitation in human history with three Greek present imperatives — ask, seek, knock. In the original language, these are continuous actions — keep asking, keep seeking, keep knocking. Heaven does not reward one-attempt prayer. Heaven rewards persistent, faith-anchored, relationship-rooted communion with the Father.
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*Ask: The Posture of Dependence*
Prayer begins with asking — and asking begins with acknowledging that we do not have what we need. This is not weakness — it is wisdom. *_“You do not have because you do not ask”_* (James 4:2, NKJV). The throne of grace is not approached by the self-sufficient — it is approached by the genuinely needy who know where all supply originates. Every unanswered need in a believer’s life has an open invitation attached to it — ask!
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*Seek: The Posture of Pursuit*
Seeking is asking with feet. It is prayer that gets up from the place of petition and pursues God with every faculty — mind, will, emotion, and action — fully engaged. “You will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart” (Jeremiah 29:13, NKJV). The seeker does not merely want the gift — the seeker wants the Giver. And the Giver rewards that pursuit with the most astonishing discoveries — Himself.
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*Knock: The Posture of Persistence*
Knocking is seeking that refuses to be discouraged by a closed door. Jesus illustrates this with the friend at midnight — a man whose persistence, not his friendship, secured the response he needed. James confirms with Elijah — a man of like passions as ourselves, whose earnest, persistent prayer shut heaven for three and a half years and then opened it again. The door is not closed because God is unwilling. It is often closed to test the sincerity, depth, and persistence of our pursuit.
Beloved, the God Who answers prayer has never once been deaf to a sincere, persistent, faith-filled cry. Heaven is open. The Father is listening. The door is one knock away.
*Ask. Seek. Knock. And keep going — until the answer comes!*
*_“For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.”_* — Luke 11:10 (NKJV). ✝️❤️🔥🦅
🙏✝️❤️🔥 *SEVEN INTERCESSORY PRAYERS*
(Post-Exhortation — Prophetic Charismatic Warfare)
❤️🔥 *Prayer 8 — _For the Prayerless and Spiritually Dry_*
Title: Every Spirit of Prayerlessness Destroyed by Fire.
_“Men always ought to pray and not lose heart.”_ — Luke 18:1 (NKJV).
*_My Father, My God — we take violent authority over every spirit of prayerlessness, spiritual dryness, and prayer fatigue tormenting Your people! We pull down every stronghold of busyness, distraction, and discouragement that has silenced the prayer lives of this congregation — consumed by Holy Ghost fire right now! We decree that the spirit of prayer is released afresh upon every believer — and that this congregation becomes a house of prayer that shakes principalities, in Jesus’ Name. Amen!_* ❤️🔥
❤️🔥 *Prayer 9 — _For Unanswered Prayers: Doors Blown Open*
Title: Every Stubborn Door Commanded to Open by Fire.
_“To him who knocks it will be opened.”_ — Luke 11:10 (NKJV).
*_Mighty God, we stand at the doors of every unanswered prayer in this congregation, and we knock with the authority of the Name of Jesus! Every door of healing that has remained closed — OPEN NOW! Every door of financial breakthrough that has resisted — OPEN NOW! Every door of marital restoration, fruitfulness, and promotion that has been supernaturally locked by the enemy — we command you to OPEN by Holy Ghost fire, in Jesus’ Name. Amen!_* ❤️🔥
❤️🔥 *Prayer 10 — _For Families: Household Altars Restored_*
Title: Every Household Prayer Altar Reignited.
_“But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”_ — Joshua 24:15 (NKJV).
*_My Father, My God — we decree the restoration of the prayer altar in every home represented in this congregation! We pull down every demonic assignment that has extinguished family prayer, destroyed household worship, and silenced the voice of God in our homes! Let every husband, every wife, every parent arise as a priest of their household — and let the fire of prayer burn on every family altar, in Jesus’ Name. Amen!_* ❤️🔥
❤️🔥 *Prayer 11 — _For the Sick: Elijah’s Prayer Released_*
Title: The Prayer of Faith Destroying Every Infirmity.
_“And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up.”_ — James 5:15 (NKJV).
*_Great Physician, we release the prayer of faith as a weapon of mass destruction against every sickness, disease, and infirmity in this congregation right now! We call out cancer — bow to the Name of Jesus! We call out every chronic condition, every terminal diagnosis, every medically impossible situation — YIELD to the God Who answers prayer by fire! Let healing testimonies explode from this congregation, in Jesus’ Name. Amen!_* ❤️🔥
❤️🔥 *Prayer 12 — _For Nigeria: Heaven Opened Over the Nation_*
Title: Elijah’s Climate-Changing Prayer Over Nigeria.
_“Elijah…prayed earnestly that it would not rain; and it did not rain…And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain.”_ — James 5:17-18 (NKJV).
*_My Father, My God — we release the Elijah anointing over Nigeria today! We pray against the drought of justice, the drought of good governance, the drought of security, and the drought of economic sanity in this nation! Lord, hear the earnest prayer of Your Church — open heaven over Nigeria! Let the rain of Your righteousness, Your justice, and Your divine intervention fall upon this nation now, consuming every satanic drought by Holy Ghost fire, in Jesus’ Name. Amen!_* ❤️🔥
❤️🔥 *Prayer 13 — _For Christ’s Good News Mission: A House of Prayer_*
Title: This Ministry Established as a Prayer Powerhouse.
_“My house shall be called a house of prayer.”_ — Matthew 21:13 (NKJV).
*_Lord Jesus, we decree with holy violence that Christ’s Good News Mission is a HOUSE OF PRAYER — not a house of programmes, not a house of performance, but a Spirit-filled, fire-baptised, heaven-connected house of prayer! We pull down every spirit of prayerlessness, formality, and spiritual complacency assigned against this ministry — consumed by fire right now! Let this congregation be known as a people whose prayers move mountains and open heavens, in Jesus’ Name. Amen!_* ❤️🔥
❤️🔥 *Prayer 14 — _The Warfare Benediction_*
Title: Sent Out as Persistent, Prevailing Intercessors.
_“Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.”_ — Ephesians 3:20 (NKJV).
*_My Father, My God — seal every soul departing this sanctuary today as a commissioned intercessor, a persistent knocker, an earnest seeker, and a bold asker! We decree that they carry the spirit of prayer into every arena of their lives this week — and that heaven responds to their asking, their seeking, and their knocking with exceedingly, abundantly, above-and-beyond answers! No prayer of theirs shall return void — for the God Who answers by fire is their Father, in Jesus’ Name. Amen!_* ❤️🔥
🎵 *CLOSING HYMN MHB. 671 — _“Sweet Hour of Prayer”_*
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1: SWEET hour of prayer! Sweet hour of prayer!
That calls me from a world of care,
And bids me at my Father’s throne
Make all my wants and wishes known;
In seasons of distress and grief,
My soul has often found relief,
And oft escaped the tempter’s snare
By thy return, sweet hour of prayer!
2: Sweet hour of prayer! Sweet hour of prayer!
The joys I feel, the bliss I share
Of those whose anxious spirits burn
With strong desires for thy return!
With such I hasten to the place
Where God my Saviour shows His face,
And gladly take my station there,
And wait for thee, sweet hour of prayer!
3: Sweet hour of prayer! Sweet hour of prayer!
Thy wings shall my petition bear
To Him whose truth and faithfulness
Engage the waiting soul to bless;
And since He bids me seek His face,
Believe His Word and trust His grace,
I’ll cast on Him my every care,
And wait for thee, sweet hour of prayer!
(William W. Walford, 1845 — The most beloved hymn of prayer in the entire Christian tradition, perfectly sealing this message of the God Who hears and answers every persistent, faith-filled cry.)
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