Helen Dresel, RBTC Instructor
Course: Prayer Principles
Have you ever judged how effective your prayer was based on how you felt during prayer or how you thought you were acting that day?
Our confidence in prayer shouldn’t be in ourselves. When we pray, it’s important to remember that our confidence is in God Almighty. We see this in 1.John 5:14-15: “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”.
Asking boldly...
The word for confidence is also translated as bold or boldly. We are to be bold in prayer. We can approach God boldly, because we are in Christ; we’re clean because of His Blood. God has a high standard – the highest! But that’s already been achieved by Jesus, our Lord. We can be confident because our faith is in God (Mark 11:22). He is faithful to His Word, which is His will. When His Word (His will) is the springboard to our requests, we can and should be bold!
In this hour...
The return of our Lord is an old message, but right now there is a fresh urgency to it.
There are many things that must be accomplished in prayer to facilitate the plan of God. (1.Timothy 2:1-4)
Peter wrote: “But the end of all things is at hand; therefore, be serious and watchful in your prayers.” (1.Peter 4:7)
While Daniel was yet praying, the angel Gabriel was being sent! (Daniel 9:21)
We must have confidence that God answers the petitions we bring to Him about His plans and purposes in this hour.
With the Name of Jesus that we’ve been given, we can pray with the confidence that Jesus prayed. Jesus said, "Father, I thank You that You have heard Me” (John 11:41). We can be like Jesus and say, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me.” And our confidence is this: “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 5:15).
*All Scripture references are from the NKJV.
Prayer Principles
This course covers the purpose and importance of prayer, different kinds of prayer that are found in the Bible, and being led by the Holy Spirit in prayer.
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