What is an ANSWER?
- A reaction to a question
- A solution to a Problem
- A response to a question
- A reply
- A way out
EXHORTATION
- GOD IS THE ANSWER TO YOUR CHALLENGES
- Psalm 27 v 7
“Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice! Have mercy also upon me, and answer me.”
- Psalm 16 v 1
“Preserve me, O God, for in You I put my trust.”
- Isaiah 65 v 24
“It shall come to pass That before they call, I will answer; And while they are still speaking, I will hear.”
- God has solutions to all our challenges. He is the ultimate solution provider.
- Don’t forget that He is our creator, our Alpha and Omega, The all-knowing God. The all-present God.
- God owns the compass of our lives.
- He will have mercy on you and answer you speedily.
- GOD IS NOT LIMITED IN THE WAY HE RESPONDS TO OUR PROBLEMS AND SPEAKS TO OUR SITUATIONS
- Psalm 4 v 1
“Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have relieved me in my distress; Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.”
- Psalm 91 v 15
“He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him.”
- Exodus 19 v 19
“And when the blast of the trumpet sounded long and became louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by voice.”
- He answered Job out of a whirlwind (Job 38 v 1)
- He answered Moses by a voice (Exodus 19 v 19)
- He answered Solomon in a dream (1 Kings 3 v 5)
- He answered Elijah by fire (1 Kings 18 v 24, 37 – 39)
- He will answer you peculiarly in Jesus name.
- GOD ANSWERS YOU WHEN YOU CALL ON HIM
- Jeremiah 33 v 3
“Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.”
- Psalm 118 v 5
“I called on the Lord in distress; The Lord answered me and set me in a broad place.”
- Psalm 81 v 7
“You called in trouble, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah”
- God is not nonchalant in your affairs.
- His hot line access remains open to you 24 hours.
- There is no network failure when communicating with God.
- A word from the Lord will settle the multiplicity of your problems in Jesus name.
- GOD IS THE ONLY SOLUTION PROVIDER
- Psalm 3 v 4
“I cried to the Lord with my voice, And He heard me from His holy hill.”
- Psalm 56 v 9
“When I cry out to You, Then my enemies will turn back;
This I know, because God is for me.”
- Psalm 34 v 17
“The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears, And delivers them out of all their troubles.”
- Psalm 102 v 1 & 2
v.1 “Hear my prayer, O Lord, And let my cry come to You.”
v.2 “Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my trouble;
Incline Your ear to me; In the day that I call, answer me speedily.”
- God is the only one who can solve that enigmatic question that has beclouded your heart.
- He will proffer solution to that problem causing you sleepless nights in Jesus name.
- To you awaiting a definite answer from God on your next line of action, you will not be disappointed in Jesus name.
- The long-awaited answer shall finally come in Jesus name.
- God shall finally say a word and apply a panacea that would settle every score in Jesus name.
- Your case shall be on the PRIORITY and EMERGENCY list of the almighty God in Jesus name.
- GOD HEARS THE PRAYER OF THE RIGHTEOUS
- Proverbs 15 v 29
“The Lord is far from the wicked, But He hears the prayer of the righteous.”
- John 16 v 24
“Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.”
- Psalm 54 v 2
“Hear my prayer, O God; Give ear to the words of my mouth.”
- Psalm 143 v 1
“Hear my prayer, O Lord, Give ear to my supplications! In Your faithfulness answer me, And in Your righteousness.”
- WHY SOME PRAYERS ARE NOT ANSWERED
- WHEN YOU DON’T BELIEVE THAT GOD ANSWERS PRAYERS.
- Mathew 21 v 22
“And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing ye shall receive.” If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.
- James 1 v 6 – 8
“But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.”
- WHEN YOU ASK WITH WRONG MOTIVES.
- James 4 v 3
“Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.”
- UNCONFESSED SIN SEPARATES US FROM GOD SO THAT HE WILL NOT HEAR .
- Isaiah 59 v 1 – 2
“Behold, that Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.”
- WHEN YOU SET UP IDOLS IN YOUR HEART – WHICH COMES BETWEEN YOU AND GOD.
- Ezekiel 14 v 3 –
“Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?”
- WHEN YOU DON’T ANSWER THOSE WHO CRY TO YOU FOR HELP
- Proverbs 21 v 13
“Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.”
- WHEN YOU DON’T REMAIN IN GOD AND GOD’S WORD DOESN’T REMAIN IN YOU.
- John 15 v 7
“If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.”
- UNFORGIVENESS, WRATH, MALICE AND SO ON
- Ephesians 4 v 31 & 32
“Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice.”
- Mark 11 v 25
“And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that you father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
There are four salient and probing questions you need to examine. These four questions are connected to everyone.
QUESTION 1 WHERE IS YOUR GOD?
QUESTION 2 WHO IS YOUR GOD THAT I SHOULD OBEY HIM?
QUESTION 3 WHERE IS GOD MY CREATOR?
QUESTION 4 WHERE IS THE LORD GOD OF ELIJAH?
The first two questions are from your mockers; they always ask you “where is your God that you keep going to the church every day”? The mockers are the Pharaohs who keep saying who is your God that I should release you?
QUESTION 1 – WHERE IS YOUR GOD?
My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God? (KJV). Psalm 42:3. As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God? (KJV). Psalm 42:10. There are many questions in your heart bothering you and a big notebook will not be enough to contain them. Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets. (KJV) Micah 7:10. Adverse situations have been asking you the question: where is your God? Unbelievers are asking you “where is your God?” Even believers are asking you “where is your God?” family members are asking you “where is your God?” they are asking for the result of your church going, the fasting, prayers and all the confessions. They are even suggesting alternatives to you but you are saying NO. They are asking about your God concerning your children, your marriage, business, fruit of the womb and so many other issues. Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name’s sake. Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed. (KJV) Psalm 79:9-10.
QUESTION 2 – WHO IS YOUR GOD THAT I SHOULD OBEY HIM?
And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness. And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go. (KJV) Exodus 5:1-2. This isa question that challenges your freedom, queries the mightiness of God in your life and antagonizes your release. When Pharaoh, the strongman from Egypt, oppressing the Israelites, said he would not let the children of Israel go, God answered him by burying him and his chariots in the red sea. But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left. Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore. (KJV) Exodus 14:29-30.
QUESTION 3 – WHERE IS GOD MY CREATOR?
Elihu spake moreover, and said,… By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night; (KJV) Job 35:1-10. This was the counsel of Elihu to Job when he was at the peak of his travail. Even in the midst of that oppression and affliction, many are asking “where is your maker?” because age is fast weighing and it seems you are the peak of your travail. I counsel you after the order of Elihu to Job, to call upon God – your maker and He will show up for you in Jesus name.
QUESTION 4 – WHERE IS THE LORD GOD OF ELIJAH?
And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the LORD God of Elijah? And when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha went over (KJV) 2Kings 2:14. When Elisha was at a cross-road at the bank of river Jordan, he needed a miracle and what he had was the mantle from Elijah, he then smote the river with the mantle and shouted “where is the Lord God of Elijah” and immediately he said that, a miracle happened. Anytime you call on the Lord God of Elijah, an instant miracle happens.
- BIBLICAL ASSURANCES THAT GOD WILL ANSWER
- GOD IS JEALOUS OVER YOU BECAUSE YOU ARE HIS INHERITANCE Deuteronomy 4:24
“For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.”
- GOD HAS NOT FORGOTTEN YOU
Isaiah 49:15-16.
“Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.”
- GOD WILL HELP YOU
Isaiah 50:7-9
“For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed. He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me. Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.”
- GOD WILL DO A NEW THING
Isaiah 43:19-20
“Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.”
- GOD WILL MAKE YOUR IMPOSSIBILITY POSSIBLE
Matthew 19:26
“But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, with men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.”
- GOD WILL GIVE YOU A TESTIMONY
Jeremiah 30:19
“And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small”
- GOD WILL FIGHT FOR YOU
Exodus 14:14.
“The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.”
- PRAYER PROMISES SCRIPTURES
- Jeremiah 1:12
“Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it”.
- John 16:24
“Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full”.
- John 14:14
“If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.”
- 1 John 5:14
“And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us”
- Isaiah 55:11
“So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.”
- John 15:7
“If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.”
- Isaiah 65:24
“And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.”
9.WHY AND WHEN MUST YOU CRY UNTO GOD
- Psalm 119 v 145
“I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.”
- Psalm 22 v 5
“They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.”
- Luke 18 v 7
“And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?”
- 2 Sam. 22 v 7
“In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.”
1. When your problems are being prolonged, elongated and expanded beyond normal.
2. When the journey of two years is becoming 20 years.
3. When an inch is becoming a mile
4. When every member of your family is in problem. (collective family problems)
5. When it seems as if God is silent.
6. When your prayers are bouncing back.
7. When serving God is no longer interesting.
8. When the enemies are gaining upper hand.
9. When all your ALMOST CONCLUDED MIRACLES AND EXPECTATIONS are aborted.
10. When you are at a crossroad.
11. When you are in the VALLEY OF DECISION
12. When you are SINKING FAST in the OCEAN OF TROUBLE
13. When you are tired of your present situation.
14. When you are desperate for a CHANGE
15. When you want to paralyse the POWERS contending with your ANGELS OF BLESSINGS.
16. When you want your CLOSED HEAVENS to open.
17. When you want to ARREST AND DESTROY all the UNSEEN FORCES disturbing your prayers.
18. When you want HEAVENLY REINFORCEMENT to destroy your GOLIATH.
19. When PROBLEMS have swallowed the JOY in your life.
20. When all the DOORS OF OPPORTUNITIES have closed.
21. When you are no longer useful to yourself and the society.
22. When sickness persists for too long.
23. When you notice an unusual EMBARGO on your RISING.
24. When there is an unusual and very embarrassing DELAY.
25. When Help and Helpers are no longer available.
26. When you are always having NEGATIVE DREAMS.
27. When you notice satanic invasion in your life.
28. When SUDDEN DARKNESS covers your goodness.
29. When you are too weak to react to the enemy’s challenges.
30. When your spiritual strength is DANGEROUSLY LOW.
31. When your children/Husband/Wife/Work are not doing well.
32. When you are Hearing Strange Voices.
33. When strange movement is in your system/Growth.
34. When your work is having problems.
35. When people are mocking you.
36. When the devil is using your family members against you.
37. When there is wicked Monitoring going on around you
38. When you suddenly find yourself on the ground.
39. When things suddenly change from good to bad.
40. If you are tired of carrying problems over
41. When your destiny/Husband/Wife/Children are suddenly misbehaving.
PRAYERS
Songs: 1. Jeremiah 32 v 17 – Ah! Lord God….
2. The Lord that answereth by fire, let him be my God.
3. I believe, O yes I believe, O Yes, I believe, it is well with me.
4. You are God from beginning to the End….
- Anointing for answered prayers, fall on me in Jesus name.
- O! Lord who answers by fire, answer me in Jesus name.
- Every seasonal problem programmed into my life, bow to the Lordship of Jesus in Jesus name.
- Anointing for a positive change on my matter, fall on me in Jesus name.
- Outstanding miracles concerning what I am passing through, manifest in Jesus name.
- Doors of Testimonies on my situation, open unto me by fire in Jesus name.
- Anointing for Testimonies, that will make me a modelling yardstick to my generation, fall on me in Jesus name.
- Anointing for surprises on my situation, fall on me now in Jesus name.
- In my Season of answers, every resisting altar against my solution, scatter in Jesus name.
- In my Season of Answers, evil assembly of success killers, scatter by fire in Jesus name.
- All dark powers challenging my solutions, my God will challenge you in Jesus name.
- In my Season of Answers, spiritual meetings summoned against me and my endeavours, scatter by fire in Jesus name.
- In my Season of Answers, secrets for my turn around be revealed in Jesus name.
- My Heavens of Answered prayers, open in Jesus name.
- Mantle of answered, fall on me in Jesus name.
- My long time prayer petitions, be answered by fire in Jesus name.
- Power of God for answered prayers, fall upon me in Jesus name..
- On that pressing matter in my life, O! Lord, answer me by your mercy in Jesus name.
- Any power resisting my answered prayers be arrested by fire in Jesus name.
- Any power hindering my answered prayers be disgraced in Jesus name.
- By your unfailing mercy O! Lord, answer me by fire in Jesus name.
- By your sovereign power O! Lord, answer me by fire in Jesus name.
- Every strongman of darkness challenging my prayers, be arrested by fire in Jesus name.
- Any strange altar challenging my answered prayers, scatter by fire in Jesus name.
- Anointing to testify, on that matter fall on me in Jesus name.
- Anointing for a mighty turn around on that matter, fall on me in Jesus name.
- Anointing to celebrate at last on that matter, fall on me in Jesus name.
- Anointing to laugh at last on that matter, fall on me in Jesus name.
- Those mocking me on that matter, O! Lord, answer them in Jesus name.
- Those asking; where is my God? on that matter, O! Lord answer them by fire in Jesus name.
- Those asking when will my prayers be answered; my God will answer you in Jesus name.
- As I cry unto you O! Lord on this matter, hear my cry and answer me by fire in Jesus name.
- Thank you Lord for answered prayers.
