However if immediate answers to all prayers are his goal, he must never add one thing to God’s Word or take one thing from it. Until all doubt is cleansed from the believer’s life, there will be some addition to and misquoting of God’s Word. “The way to answered prayer then becomes clear, and it is the duty of each individual to see that he masters all doubt and demons and cooperates with God’s Word with all his heart” (Dake, page 181). To out an end to doubting, we should resist the devil and he will flee from us (James 4:7). Since it was Satan (through the serpent) who raised the first doubt in man (Genesis 3:1), we should recognize that all doubts are of the devil. A few failures like this will soon make them form a habit that causes failure in almost every prayer that is prayed. But many times when the answer doesn’t come immediately, they decide that it is not the will of God or that it might not have been best for them to receive an answer. If this is God’s condition of answered prayer, children of God should make up their mind before they pray that they are going to stick to what they ask of God until they get an answer. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways” (James 1:5-8). For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. God made very plain that the absolute condition of answered prayer is: “Let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not and it shall be given him. Biblical quotations are from the KJV unless otherwise noted. The comments in square brackets are ones made in our family discussion or by me personally. Most of what he says about them explains how they relate to Christians having their prayers about their needs answered and thus provides a good followup to his presentation on providence in Lesson Ten. This report consists of brief summaries of what Dake says about the six steps that he claims man must take to be redeemed. He also discusses ten miscellaneous Bible questions. Here he claims that man must take steps that are just the opposite of them to be redeemed. In Lesson Nine Dake identified six steps in the fall of man-doubt concerning God’s Word, addition to and misquoting God’s Word, contradiction of God’s Word, misinterpretation of God’s Word, temptation to transgress God’s Word, and transgression of God’s Word (see ). Lesson Nine had been on the dispensation of innocence (Genesis 2:15-3:21), and Lesson Ten had been on providence, God’s plan for the needs of man. In our after-breakfast study of Finis Jennings Dake’s God’s Plan for Man (Lawrence, Georgia: Dake Publishing, 1949) this morning, my family and I finished considering Supplement Five, which follows Lessons Nine and Ten.