Getting answers to prayer is a matter of understanding why God sometimes decides to answer “Yes” and other times “No.” To find out what the Bible says about this would be a rather exhaustive study. You would start by taking a concordance and collecting all the referrences in the Bible on the topic of prayer. Then you would need to correlate all of that information into an outline. When you finished that you would have a basis for crystalizing what you have found into some application points. 

 

I did a somewhat condensed version of this “three C” approach after going to a conference on time management. The consultant suggested the following: “Make a list of everything you feel needs to be done. Then classify each item on the basis of importance: ‘A’ equals ‘Must be done today.’ ‘B’ means the item should be done today. ‘C’ means it’s important but could be put off till tomorrow. ‘D’ means the item isn’t important enough to need attention any time in the near future, but you’d like to get to it eventually. Then you prioritize the items in each category and go to work from the top down.” 

 

I thought to myself, what if I did the same thing with my many prayer requests, only with a slightly different focus? Sound interesting? Tune in tomorrow.