The Power of the Word in Prayer
(BTW- “the Word” is Christian-speak for God’s words captured in print in the Bible.)
Ok, you’ve got homework for this one. Go read Genesis 1. Some real important things happened there. (Like all of creation.)
Now, quiz time:
1) When God made the world, what was the tool he used?
Correct! He “said” things into existence. He went about saying things like, “Light be”. Then there was light! He used his own words to create.
My personal deduction from that is that God places lots of value on words.
2) In whose image did God create mankind?
Correct, again! He made men and women in his own image (modeled us after himself).
My personal deduction from that is that God values our words highly and expects us to use them to create.
How does this apply to prayer?
What if we take something God values (his words) and combine that with something that needs to be created in our own lives (our needs being met) and make that our prayer?
Here’s a not-overly-personal example:
My thought for the year has to do with learning to “count is all joy when I fall into trials and temptations, knowing that the trials and temptations will help me mature” (James 1, Vicki’s version).
I know that I absolutely STINK at making myself count ANY trial or temptation a joy- so it is hard to get to a place that I can convince myself that I am going to be SO mature when God is through with me.
Thus- I am taking the “count it all joy- Vicki version” scripture and during my prayertime, I ask the Lord to bring those words of his to life in me.
Want to give it a try?
1) Take a need you have
2) Ask God for a Scripture for you to pray- start reading the Bible, eventually he will show you one, or it will come in some other way
3) Put it in your own words
4) Tell it to God daily
See what he creates in your life!
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