Wed 14/12/11

John 15:16 ASV

Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should abide: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

This cetera stroke me with an idea that bearing fruit of the Spirit and having our prayers given. Answered prayers are not the reward of obeying God and bearing fruit, however, the more we obey & bear fruit, the closer we are to Him, the easier we pray & receptive to His direction, thus having our prayers answered.

George Miller, a man who recorded 50,000+ answered, wrote that answered prayers are about discerning God's will, not about what we pray