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Jesus is often called Immanuel. The name means, “The mighty God with us.” Jesus was born into this world in order to reveal the Father, The Almighty God, to mankind. We’d forgotten what God was really like. Our sin we inherited from our fathers had blocked out of our minds the truth of Who God was. Jesus lived, as a man—filled with God, the Holy Spirit—thirty-three years in this world and constantly showed us the Father. And one of the things about Him that amazed His followers was the way He prayed and God answered Him. The secret to Jesus’ prayers being answered so quickly and so powerfully was that He always asked according to the Father’s will. And He taught his disciples this was the key to seeing God move in this world. This is why the Apostle John, who learned this principle from Jesus, would write,
“…this is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask any thing according to His will, he hears us: And if we know that He hears us…we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him.” Continue reading