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SCRIPTURE: Php. 1:9-11, emphasis on v.11 (AMP) - "filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God [so that His glory may be both revealed and recognized]"

Have you ever prayed with certainty?  Let me challenge you; if Paul did, why aren't you?  However, when you analyze Paul's prayers, where do they seem to be focused?  Take this one from Philippians, he's in prison, and yet his focus isn't on his circumstance, it's on others. Paul could pray with certainty because he did exactly what John talked about;  John 15:7-8 (AMP) says, "7 If you remain in Me and My words remain in you [that is, if we are vitally united and My message lives in your heart], ask whatever you wish and it will be done for you. 8 My Father is glorified and honored by this, when you bear much fruit, and prove yourselves to be My [true] disciples.  Furthermore, later in his first epistle, he says, 1 John 5:14-15 (AMP) - "This is the confidence which we [as believers are entitled to] have before Him: that if we ask anything according to His will, [that is, consistent with His plan and purpose] He hears us. 15 And if we know [for a fact, as indeed we do] that He hears and listens to us in whatever we ask, we [also] know [with settled and absolute knowledge] that we have [granted to us] the requests which we have asked from Him.  Let us pray with confidence today because we are focused on our Father and His purpose in our lives for His glory.
PRAYER FOCUS: "Father, may our love grow more and more in wisdom and insight— so we will be able to examine and determine the best from everything else. And on the day of the Anointed One, the day of His judgment, help us to stand pure and blameless in Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that ripens through Jesus the Anointed. All this I pray, with a view to God’s ultimate praise and glory.