Star First Baptist Church
"You can do more than pray after you have prayed:but you cam never do more than pray until you have prayed"  A.J. Gordon 
 
 The Church has grown so lax in our prayer-life. We go before God dirty and sinful and we ask Him to give us our desires. When He does not answer we begin to doubt and we cease to pray. 
 
 The first step to a productive prayer is repentence. When we come before a Holy God humbled, submissive, and begging forgiveness he not only forgives but he cleanses and then we can make our petitions known and he will hear them. 
 
The psalmist said "If I hide iniquity in my heart he will not hear me!
John reminds us that " if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteous" 
 
God wants to answer our prayers but he reminds us that we must "pray with faith believing"
 
I wonder how many times you or I have come so close to answered prayer and given up?
 
Theres an old song that states "Till the answer comes you gotta keep praying, keep praying, keep praying
Till the answer comes you gotta keep praying, keep praying till the answer comes.
 
I think that is very good advice. Jesus told of a woman that came begging a king, She came back over and over until He gave in!