Why do some people ask God for things and not get them? Why can you pray about major crises and not seem to get helped? This is because you lack child, family, and citizen rights for healing and help with your finances, relationships, emotions, physical problems, and spiritual needs. The only prayers God is willing to listen to, prior to you being born again, are those prayers that help you be willing to be born again. The reason He has been listening to and answering all these prayers is because they are about you becoming willing to be born again.

If God wouldn’t listen to any prayers you pray, prior to being born again, then you praying for being willing to be born again and asking to be born again wouldn’t be heard. You have been praying prayers that are asking Jesus to help you understand these things about being born again and receiving salvation. These are prayers that are vital for empowering you to be born again. And, God is listening to every word and responding by love and power being poured into you.

Jesus doesn’t want to trick you into salvation. He doesn’t want you to have any misunderstandings about what you are trying to get. Jesus only deals in the realm of the truth. He is answering all these prayers you are praying, so you can have a full understanding of what it means to be born again. Then after your new birth, all kinds of prayers will get answered.

John 3:4 (NIV) “How can a man be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother’s womb to be born!” Just as Nicodemus suspected, going in for a second term in your mother’s womb wasn’t the answer.

You have a pretty good idea how human birth takes place. The big question is, how is it possible to be born again? Nicodemus could see some real problems with a grown man being “born again.” So, he did what you need to learn to start doing; he asked Jesus a question. If you don’t understand or agree with something you hear or read in the Bible, don’t get upset. Present the question to Jesus and to your Christian friends. He will help you get the answer at the right time.

Just for the sake of argument, suppose you could go back and get born again as a human baby. All you would end up with was you still being a citizen of the nation or kingdom where you were born and a member of the same human family. It wouldn’t change your citizenship, your humanity, or family ties. Obviously, therefore, this is going to be something different than a natural birth.

At this stage in your life, it is just a matter of you trusting Jesus. There are a lot of technological things you use everyday that you cannot explain how they work. This is how you are going to have to treat Jesus. He is moving you into the realm of the spirit. But, keep in mind that God’s Spirit has been talking to you most of your life. Your conscience has been talking to you about what is right and wrong for a long time. That has been God’s Spirit keeping you from falling into the great depths of perversion and evil.