August 23, 2020 Dear John

Week 7 “Taking Back Your Confidence”

From 1 John 5:13-21

📖 1 John 5:14-15 (NIV) This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15 And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.

1. We can have confidence that our prayers are and .

Praying according to God’s will:

a. Pray with Faith

📖 Mark 11:24 (NIV) Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

b. Pray in the name of Jesus

📖 John 14:13-14 (NIV) And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.

c. Abide in Christ

📖 John 15:7 (NIV) If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

d. Forgive those who have offended you

📖 Mark 11:25 (NIV) “And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.”

e. Prayer cannot be for your own passions

📖 James 4:3 (NIV) you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

📖 1 John 5:18 (NIV) We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the One who was born of God keeps them safe, and the evil one cannot harm them.

2. We can have confidence that we are .

3. We can have confidence that we are .

📖 1 John 5:19 (NIV) We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.

4. We can have confidence in our .

📖 1 John 5:20 (NIV) We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true by being in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

📖 1 John 5:13 (NIV) I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.