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HOW TO PRAY ABOUT YOUR PROBLEMS
*Prayer Can Change Your Life - Part 3 of 4*
*Romans 10:17** Jn 14:8-14*
Romans 10.
We're in a series called "Prayer Can Change Your Life".
The last two weeks we talked about the reasons for prayer or the four purposes of prayer.
Last week we talked about the five conditions for answered prayer.
There are five things God says you must do in order to have an answer to your prayer.
One of the conditions that we had to answered prayer is you have to have faith.
You must believe.
Faith is the key that unlocks the door through prayer.
But sometimes the situation is so big and the problem is so overwhelming it's hard to have faith.
The question is how do you get faith in a faithless situation?
Romans 10:17 tells us where faith comes from.
/"Consequently faith comes from hearing the message and the message is heard through the word of Christ."/
The word there is /rhema/ in Greek.
It says we get faith by listening to the word of God.
If you want to build faith, it's simple.
Fill your life with the Bible.
The more Bible knowledge you have, the more faith you're going to have.
The less you know about the Bible, the less faith you're going to have.
It's a specific kind of word of God.
It's the /rhema/.
How do you pray about problems and difficult decisions?
The keys to prayer in the Bible are the promises of God.
There are over 7000 promises in the Bible.
They're like blank checks, gifts waiting to be received.
If you want to have a dynamic prayer life, you get a promise to claim onto, grab onto, and you can have your answer to prayer.
There is a verse for every need, for every problem, in the Bible.
The more promises you know, the more powerful your prayer will become.
The question then is, why don't the promises always work?
I was reading about a man who was a diabetic and he read the verse, /"If you ask anything in My name, I will do it."/
John 14:14.
So he said, "God, I'm going to ask that You cure me of diabetes," and he threw away his insulin and three days later he died.
What happened?
God promised.
Why didn't it work?
There's a misconception people have about the promises of God.
It's this: You cannot automatically claim a promise that's been given to somebody else in the Bible unless the Holy Spirit gives it to you.
To understand what we're going to talk about today, you must understand that God speaks to people two different ways.
1.
Universally -- to everybody.
\\ 2. Personally -- to individual people, specific messages for specific situations at specific times.
The New Testament was originally written in Greek.
In the Greek there were two terms used for the term "word".
/"Logos" /and /"rhema"/.
Whenever you hear the phrase, "the word of God", sometimes it's the /logos /of God and sometimes it's the /rhema/ of God.
The /logos/ is the word of God to everybody.
That's the Bible -- everything from Genesis to Revelation, the Ten Commandments, the Sermon on the Mount, the Twenty-Third Psalm.
It is God's word to everybody.
It is the foundation for the second type of word of God which is the /rhema/.
The /rhema/ is the word of God to you personally, a specific word, a promise, to a specific person in a specific period of time for that only.
We can only claim a promise when it is a /rhema/ to us, when it's the specific word to us.
I'm going to share with you how you get that.
Sarah was Abraham's wife.
One day God came to Sarah and said, "Sarah, you're going to have a baby".
There's nothing unusual about that except she was ninety years old and her husband Abraham was ninety-nine years old.
That's incredible!
It was a specific word to her. God didn't say, "The whole nation of Israel, every woman when she reaches ninety is going to have a baby."
It was a specific /rhema/, a word of God to her and not to anybody else.
Just to her.
Getting a personal promise of God like that is the key to miracles.
It's the key to answered prayer.
When God speaks to you personally, then you can act on it.
Not when He uses it for everyone and you say, "He used it for that person so I'm going to claim it for me."
That's why last week we look at John 15:7 that said, /"If you continue to abide in My word, then you can ask for whatever you want and then it will be yours."/
It says "If you continue in my /rhema/ not /logos/...
If you continue in My specific word to you, then you can have answered prayer.
Remember the story of Peter walking on water?
Peter's out in a boat with all of the disciples.
It's night.
Jesus comes walking across the water and Peter says, "Lord, Call me and I'll come!" Jesus gives Peter a /rhema/, a specific word for one man in a specific situation.
He says, "Peter, come on!"
Peter gets out of the boat and starts walking across the water.
Notice that no one else was anxious to get out of the boat besides Peter.
Why?
Because it wasn't a word to everybody.
It was a word to Peter in a specific time.
It wasn't a universal word, either.
The next day, Peter didn't get up and say, "Let's go fishing, but we don't need a boat today.
Let's just walk on water and catch fish."
No, it was a one time thing.
\\ You don't read the book of Mark and read about Peter walking on water one day and figure you can walk across your swimming pool.
Don't work on a /rhema/ given to somebody else.
We get into trouble when we try to force a general promise to everybody to work as a personal promise to us without the Holy Spirit telling us to do it.
For instance, I talk to people who read a verse in the Bible on healing.
They'll say, "God healed them, therefore God must heal me."
So they pray and believe and have tremendous faith but even in spite of their faith nothing happens.
Then they get mad and say, "God!
Why didn't You heal me.
It's in the Bible.
You said so.
You have to do it."
And you argue.
No.
They didn't have a personal word for God for this particular thing.
It was a general word.
Satan tried to do this with Jesus one time.
Jesus was out in the desert and Satan came and said, "Jesus, why don't You jump off the temple because the Bible says God will take care of You."
That wasn't faith.
That was presumption.
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