EXPECTANT PRAYER

[FAITH]

As we confidently pray according to the promises in the Bible, we can expect all the promises of the Lord to be yes and amen in Christ!  There are literally thousands of Scripture promises in the Bible that can be applied to our lives.

As the psalmist wrote:  "For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast"(Psalm 33:9).

The Lord is true (see Revelation 3:7), and His promises are sure. When we pray out of the knowledge of His promises, we can pray with expectation for the answer. This is exactly what the apostle John meant when he wrote: "Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, 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 the petitions that we have asked of Him" (1 John 5:14,15).

 

WE MUST INTERNALIZE HIS PROMISES

 

Of course, if we do not know His promises, we will not be able to confidently go before Him in expectant faith to receive the manifestation of His promises. But as we grow in knowledge of His promises in the Word, we will receive a deeper faith, which will result in a life of trust and obedience.  Faith doesn't come from information but from deeply dwelling (meditating) and hearing, through affirming out loud the Word of God.

This is what God wants for us. We bring Him honor and glory when we fully live in His redemptive promises and, as a result, fully live out our Christ calling. When we know what He has already supplied for us, we become partakers of these precious promises. About this, Peter wrote:

"By His divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know Him, the one who called us to Himself by means of His marvelous glory and excellence. And because of His glory and excellence, He has given us great and precious promises. These are the promises that enable you to share His divine nature and escape the world's corruption caused by human desires(2 Peter 1:24).

This is why we need the spirit of wisdom and revelation to show us all God gave to us through the victory of the cross (see Ephesians 1:17).

 

PRAYER MEDITATIONS:

I grasp my Christ Identity through affirming, meditating, and visualizing the scriptures that show me my inheritance in Christ due to Jesus’ finished work of the cross.

I ask, knock, and seek until I come to understand and carry out God's PURPOSE  for my life.

Kingdom advancement and fruit-bearing are a result of embracing these two aspects of Christian equipping.

 

ALBERT FINCH MINISTRY

https://afministry.ning.com/