Prayer: Abide, ask, believe, receive

Excerpts from CRU: (Please click on their link and read entire piece - its good).
   "How can you expect answers to your prayers? Four imperatives must be followed: abide, ask, believe, and receive...

ABIDE: Jesus says abiding is the key to successful praying. "If you abide in me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you." ...if you are abiding in Christ -- if your life is yielded to Him and His Word is abiding in you so that you know His will -- you can ask anything you want because your will is to do His will...

ASK: Jesus said, "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. Everyone who asks receives; he who seek finds; and he who knocks, the door will be opened."

BELIEVE: Jesus promises in Matthew 21:22, "If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer." Believing is at the heart of answered prayer. But how do you get this faith to believe? Should you try to work up some kind of state of mind that will in some way equal faith? Of course not. God does not require you to have great faith. You simply are to have faith in a great God. Jesus says: "If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, "Move from here to there" and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you."

RECEIVE: By faith, claim the answer to your request. If you know you are abiding in Christ and are controlled by the Holy Spirit and are praying according to the Word and will of God, you can expect God to answer your prayer. So be prepared to receive the answer. Imagine right now that you are receiving the answer to your request, and begin to thank God for it... It is a simple fact that whatever you vividly envision, ardently desire, sincerely believe and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass -- assuming, of course, that there is scriptural authority for it.