3 Promises?

[Twizzler]

I'm a little confused and would like some help understanding what these three promises are and how we determine that there are three promises listed in the passage.

God makes us a threefold promise in I Jn 5:14-15. First, He promises to listen if we pray according to His will. Second, He promises that we already possess what we have asked for. Third, He promises that we know that we have the petitions we desire. So when we pray according to His will, He hears us, we have what we ask for, and we know that we have what we asked for.
HANDBOOK FOR CHRISTIAN LIVING, Charles Stanley, pg 539.

5:14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: and if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask , we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.

When I read the passage, I only see two promises. 1. God hears our prayers. 2. If our prayer is according to God's will it will be given us.

I'm unable to understand the promises that are referenced by Stanley. It appears that he's saying that we already have that which we are praying for and that we know that we have it. If we already have it and know that we have it, why would we pray for it?

 

[freeatlast]

Charles Stanley for years preached a message that was consistent with the word of God. However in the last 15 or 20 years he as taken another route. Perhaps part of it is due to his divorce several years ago or just his age or even both. He now seems to be using phycology with messages that are more in the line of Norman Vincent Peale teachings.
While I praise God for what this man used to teach I no longer would point anyone to his teachings. So in regards to your question I would just throw away that book and find another bible teacher.