This book is a guide to bring us closer to answered Prayer. Of course, only our Heavenly Father can grant us this but there are ways to have an audience with God, to make ourselves worthy of his focus. So when we find ourselves wondering why answered prayers seem to elude us when we most need it, we may very well find useful strategies in this guide book. If you search for it in earnest, you may find that there are areas of our lives which need growth first. If a vessel has a hole in it, how can it store something inside and be fit for purpose? On our Christian journey we learn how to make ourselves available and receptive to transformation and a sense of wholeness, and wellness, inside and out. In this guide book we will focus on various steps to take in obedience, to align ourselves with God's will and purpose for our lives. In a nutshell, we need to understand that in order to receive we also have to give of ourselves first, and allow a process of renewal to unfold within us. Anybody can start this very moment by asking God to renew in us a right spirit to serve Him. ...we 'seal' our prayer with 'Amen' which simply means 'may it be so', it comes from Hebrew and is an age-old term from Judaism. Although God promises to bless His children, we are expected to meet him halfway with the way that we conduct ourselves. It is this that we dissect to see how we are holding up our end of this divine relationship that will last for all time. I cannot guarantee you an answered prayer, but knowing that by process of elimination, you are not standing in the way of yourself living out the time of your life, in His presence, covered by His shadow, basking in His light, contented, delighted, loved. In Christ, Dalene