Hi there, prayer partner!
I’ve got awesome news for you today: the Bible is full of promises from our God.
Pledges He made millennia ago that He has unfailingly kept toward countless people ever since, and that He will unfailingly keep toward you and me and countless other people until the end of time.
What confidence this inspires as we walk through this broken world!
Confidence
Someone once said that the promises of God aren’t meant to be sedatives, but stimulants. They shouldn’t lull us into lazy apathy; they should propel us to greater and greater heights of spiritual victory!
Allow God’s promises to inspire in your heart a holy, zealous boldness that cries out to the Lord, “I am here to receive what You have promised so that I may better serve You.”
May these prayers compel you to step forward and boldly grab hold of His provision for you.
Prayers of Confidence
- Thank God for His peace that comes from Jesus and is nothing like the false peace offered by the world. Claim His promised peace and commit to keeping your heart from being troubled or fearful. (John 14:27)
- Remind God of His promise to give power to the weak and to increase the strength of those who have no might. Acknowledge to Him that physical strength is unreliable even for the young and strong, and claim the promise that those who wait for the Lord find their strength renewed, mounting up with wings like eagles, running without growing weary, and walking without fainting. (Isaiah 40:29-31)
- Praise the Lord for His invitation to all who are heavily burdened to come to Him. Obey His call and go to Him with your burdens, claiming His promised rest in Him. Commit to coming alongside Him and learning from Him, for He is gentle and humble, knowing that you will find rest for your soul. (Matthew 11:28-30)
- Claim God’s promise that all things, bad and good, work together for good for those who love God and are called according to His purpose. Acknowledge that your ultimate good is being conformed to the image of Jesus, and thank Him for His promise to achieve that through the circumstances of your life. (Romans 8:28-29)
- Thank God for the confidence you have in God and in His ability to finish what He has started in your life. Claim the truth of this promise in prayer. (Philippians 1:6)
- Praise God for the truth that you aren’t alone in the temptations you face, and that in His faithfulness, God won’t allow you to be tempted above what you are able. Claim His promise to provide a way of escape from temptation. Pray that you would be alert to the way of escape, and that by His grace you would make use of it. (1 Corinthians 10:13)
- Remind God of His promise to give wisdom liberally to everyone who asks. Consider what areas of your life require more wisdom, and ask Him for it boldly, claiming His promise by faith. (James 1:5)
- Pray that God would increase your delight in Him, showing you how to know Him, love Him, and serve Him with all your heart and all your soul. Claim the Lord’s promise to grant your desires as they conform to His. (Psalm 37:4)
- Rejoice that nothing can separate you from the love of Christ! Ponder the truth that even oppression, anguish, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, and sword could never remove God’s love from you. Claim the promise that in all trials, you are more than a conqueror through Him who loved you with a ferocious love that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, can abolish. (Romans 8:35-39)
Heavenly Father, how great and precious are Your promises! Thank You for refining my faith and building my trust by being a promise-keeping God. Please keep my motives pure, and let me never use Your promises to manipulate You. I pray they would be a springboard to greater heights of knowing You and serving You. In the name of my Savior, Jesus Christ, I pray. Amen.
P.S. Just one day to go! You’re doing an amazing job, and I’m praying that you will finish well! See you tomorrow!
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