My Answers

Mike Cater has extensive experience in Bible church service. He has attended classes at Baptist Bible College in Springfield, Missouri (1962-64). He has taught in a high school Sunday school in Paola, Kansas. He was Sunday school director at Cornerstone Baptist Church and served as youth director at Fellowship Baptist Church in Lawrence, Kansas (2010). He has filled the pulpit in six Baptist churches during his church ministry: Paola, Olathe, Oak Grove, Marysville, and Lawrence.

Mike Cater graduated from Pomona High School in 1961. He retired from Honeywell Avionics Incorporated in September 2009 after thirty years service as a facilities technician. Mike Cater now resides in Lawrence, Kansas.

To my readers, this is "my answers to prayer" book following my first book on prayer, "Teach Us How to Pray" (a bible study). My reason for writing this book on prayer is to reintroduce everyone to the real basics for a successful prayer life. I want to give everyone a true sense of a relationship with a real all-powerful God. Our Savior, God, wants a relationship that is totally honest, concerning a holy God and his chosen people.

Christian prayers are not being answered today for several reasons. God's Word is trying to give us a peaceful heart through our baptism by faith in Jesus Christ. Since we have been "quickened" or made alive with God in Christ Jesus, we need to put our will worship aside and worship our savior Jesus Christ (Matt. 6:1-15).

I want to let God's Word help us rediscover our hypocrisy in our Christian prayer life. To do this, we need to re-examine our views of the living all powerful God of the universe! The best place to begin is in Matthew 6, where Jesus tries to introduce us to proper prayer life. Then after we re-examine our Heavenly Father, I want us to examine the hindrances to a successful prayer life that we commit because of our sinful daily walk according to James 4:1-17.

I want to also discuss the five ways that God does answer prayer. I realize that there are many ways to examine this part of our study, but we only have so much patience for God's Word. By the time you get to the end of this book, you will be thoroughly worn out or disgusted. I hope so. That is my goal!