Standing On The Promises

Prayer is like picking peas. You just get on your knees and do it.  With an open Bible, praise the praises and plead the promises.  Standing on the promises is a powerful form of prayer.  God is a covenant-keeping God.  He is faithful to His promises.  I am an imperfect earthly parent, but as far as possible, I honor my promises to my children.  How much more does our heavenly Father who is perfect and loves us perfectly!

For every problem, burden, need, and circumstance, God has made you promises of his faithfulness.  "For no matter how many promises God has made, they are 'Yes' in Christ. And so through him the 'Amen' is spoken by us to the glory of God," according to 2 Corinthians 1:20.  Can you trust your heavenly Father?  Absolutely. 

Use God's Word as your promise book.  Pray the Bible as you read it devotionally.  Ask God what to pray and how to pray from each passage that he highlights to you.  God delights to fulfill His Word. He watches over His word to perform it.

What are my favorite promises? All of them! Start your own favorite promise list.

Jeremiah 33:3  Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.

2 Corinthians 9:8  God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all your need, you will abound in every good work.
 
Isaiah 41:10  So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

1 John 5:14-15  This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, He hears us. And if we know that he hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have what we asked of him.

2 Chronicles 16:9  For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him.

2 Timothy 1:12  I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him.

Ephesians 3:20  Now [he] is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us.

Philippians 1:6  I am confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.

 

The Sovereign Lord, the Commander-in-chief who has no equal, of the armies of heaven, who cannot lose, is with us. Personal paraphrase of ELG of Psalm 46:11a. 

 

Glory! That's a promise to stand on!

 

 

 

 

 

Courtesy of Sylvia Gunter on www.thefathersbusiness.com