Seize the Moment – Day 947
Pray the Promises of God!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Thursday, October 20.
Who taught you how to pray? Was your prayer life taught or caught?
If you want to learn how to pray powerful prayers, then you need to spend time with God and learn from Him. Study the Word of God, write down the great prayers of the Bible, then pray those ancient prayers for today’s situations. Pray the Promises!
Some of the great prayers of the Bible are found in situations where God’s people found themselves in great peril. King Asa was focused on fortifying his kingdom when Zerah the Ethiopian came up against him with an army of a million men (1-9). Asa went out to battle, outnumbered nearly 2:1, and prayed in 2 Chronicles 14:11:
Lord, there is no one besides You to help in the battle between the powerful and those who have no strength; so help us, O Lord our God, for we trust in You, and in Your name have come against this multitude. O Lord, You are our God; let not man prevail against You.
What a powerful prayer, and it worked – “the Lord routed the Ethiopians…” (12-15)! His was a sincere prayer, filled with faith. Learn from King Asa to pray powerful prayers that believe the promises of God. Asa was essentially praying back to God the promise of 2 Chronicles 6:34-35, “When Your people go out to battle against their enemies, … then hear from heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.” Asa knew that the only victory to be won that day was by God. Like the great people of faith before him, he fervently cried out for help (James 5:16b-18). We pray to the same God today!
Seize the moment and pray the promises of God given to us in the Bible. These are the prayers that God loves to answer (Psalm 138:2; Joshua 23:14; 2 Corinthians 1:20; 2 Peter 1:4).
God bless you!
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