John 14:14, “If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.”
Before you get all excited about what God is going to do let me share a few things.
There are five requirements that we must fulfill in order for John 14:14 to be effective.
- Contrition and Humility
- 2 Chronicles 7:14, “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
- Wholehearted or Earnestness
- Jeremiah 29:13, “And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.”
- Faith
- Mark 11:24, “Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.”
- Righteousness
- James 5:16, “Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”
- Obedience
- I John 3:22, “And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.”
