Every Day Exercise Faith
By Believing God's Promises
What Are You Believing Today?
Every day we believe something.
We are either believing God or doubting Him. Doubt is the belief, suspicion, or fear that God will not or does not hear, care, or our answer prayers.
What are you presently, right now, believing God to do? I don't mean what are you asking Him to do. What are you believing Him to do?
Don't pretend you have faith when you really doubt that He will answer you and bless you.
Real faith trusts God's goodness faithfulness, and His promises.
Be specific in the request that you long for, believe God wants, and are willing to persist for.
There's Only One Impossibility
"But without faith it is impossible to please Him; for he that comes to God must believe that He is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him." Hebrews 11:6
Prayer is, and always should be, the core of the church. It is the umbilical cord that ties us to the Lord Jesus. Jesus said, "Without me you can do (accomplish) nothing." Paul goes further expounds this truth in Hebrews 11 when he declares that it is virtually impossible to please God without seeking Him, and believing that He hears and answers.
Conditions for Answered Prayer
To put it another way, without being involved in believing prayer you cannot expect that you can approach God, nor receive any reward from Him. Let's look at the conditions of believing prayer:
Are You a "Believer or a Doubter?"
God is not a wishing well that we should cast our prayer coins at His feet and hope for the best. Wishful praying is not praying in faith. It is not part of Jesus' promise that "when you pray, believe that you shall have…" Jesus meant "know assuredly" that you will have, not wish hard enough and maybe God will hear you.
I. Believe that He is...
1. He is Able - Jeremiah 32:17, 27
2. He is Sovereign - I Chronicles 29:11
3. He is Still on the Throne - Ephesians 1:18-21
4. He is Listening - Psalm 34:15
II. Believe he rewards "diligent seekers"
1. He Answers - Isaiah 59:1-2
2. He Does More Than We Ask - Ephesians 3:20
3. He Rewards Us - Luke 11:9-13
Here Are 70 Promises to Pray
70 Promises (in PDF)
PRAYER
Isaiah 65:24 ...before they call I will answer...
Psalm 37:4 ...delight in the Lord, he gives desires of your heart...
Psalm 37:5 ...commit your way to Lord, he will bring it to pass...
Jeremiah 33:3 ...call on me and I will show you great and mighty things
Jeremiah 32:17-18 ...you have made heaven...nothing is too hard for you...
Matthew 18:19 ...if any 2 agree...touch...ask, it will be done...
PEACE
Isaiah 26:3 ...keep you in perfect peace...
Isaiah 32:17 ...work of righteousness will be peace...
Jeremiah 29:11 ...the thoughts I think toward you are peace, not evil...
Psalm 37:37 ...the end of the upright man is peace...
PROTECTION
Psalm 91:3 ...he shall deliver from snare, pestilence, terror, arrow...
Isaiah 54:17 ...no weapon formed against you will prosper...
Isaiah 43:2 ...when pass through the water it will not overflow you...
Jeremiah 15:20 ...I will make you a steel wall, they will not prevail.
Psalm 5:11-12 ...those who trust you, shout for joy, you defend them...
SUPPLY
Psalm 34:10 ...lions do hunger…but you shall not lack any good thing...
Psalm 37:25 ...I have not seen the righteous forsaken or begging...
Philippians 4:19 ...my God shall supply all your need...
II Corinthians 9:8 ...God is able to make all grace abound to you...
SUCCESS
Joshua 1:8 ...then you shall make way prosperous, and have success
Psalm 1:3 ...whatsoever he does it shall prosper...
Romans 8:28 ...all things work together for good to him...
STRENGTH
Isaiah 40:29 ...He gives power to the faint...
Isaiah 40:31 ...they that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength...
Isaiah 41:10 ...fear not for I am with you...I will help you
Isaiah 41:13 ...the Lord will hold your right hand...
II Corinthians 12:9 ...my grace is sufficient for you...
DELIVERANCE
Psalm 34:17,19 ...the righteous cry and the Lord hears & delivers from trouble
Psalm 34:7,8 ...angel encamps around those who fear Him...
Isaiah 59:19 ...when enemy comes like flood...Lord will stand against him
DIRECTION & LEADING
Psalm 32:8 ...I will instruct & teach you the way to go...
Psalm 37:23 ...good man's steps are ordered by the Lord
Proverbs 3:6 ...In all your ways acknowledge him & he will direct your paths...
Proverbs 16:3,9 ...commit your way to the Lord...thoughts will be established...
Isaiah 30:21 ...you will hear a word behind you saying, this is the way
Isaiah 58:11 ...the Lord will guide you continually...
FEARS
II Timothy 1:7 ...God gave not the spirit of fear, but of sound mind.
Isaiah 41:10 ...fear not for I am with you, I will help you.
Isaiah 41:13 ...fear not I will help you...
Psalm 34:4 ...I sought...He delivered me from all my fears...
Luke 12:32 It is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
CHILDREN
Isaiah 54:11-13 ...all your children will be taught of the Lord...
Psalm 127:3 ...children are a heritage of the Lord...your reward...
Isaiah 59:21 ...my words will not depart out of your seed's mouth...
Isaiah 44:3 ...I will pour out my Spirit on your seed and offspring...
Proverbs 22:6 ...train up a child...when old...he will not depart from it.
WISDOM
Isaiah 50:4 ...Lord gives me tongue of the learned to know how to speak.
Psalm 19:7 ...The law...is perfect...making wise the simple...
Proverbs 1:7 ...Fear of the Lord is beginning of knowledge...
James 1:5 ...lack wisdom? Ask of God that gives liberally to all men...
FORGIVENESS
Psalm 86:5 ...thou Lord art good...ready to forgive...
I John 1:9 ...If we confess our sins, He is faithful...to forgive...all.
Isaiah 1:18 ...though your sins be as scarlet they shall be white as snow
Isaiah 43:25 ...I am He that blots out transgressions...
ABILITY ABOVE IMPOSSIBILTY
Jeremiah 32:17,27 … Ah Lord God… there is nothing too hard for you…
Philippians 1:6 ...he that began a good work in you will perform it
Acts 20:32 ...the word of His grace… is able to build you up...
Ephesians 3:20 ...able to exceedingly abundantly...by power in us...
Jude 24 ...able to keep you...present you faultless...
HEALING
Exodus 15:26 ...I am the Lord that heals you
Psalm 103:3-4 ...who forgives all...heals all your diseases...
James 5:15 ...the prayer of faith shall save the sick...
Matthew 8:17 ...He took our infirmities and carried our diseases...
SLEEP
Proverbs 3:24 ...you shall lie down and your sleep will be sweet...
Psalm 4:8 ...I will...sleep for you make me dwell in safety.
Psalm 127:2 ...for so he gives his beloved sleep...
WORD OF GOD
Isaiah 55:11 ...shall not return void...shall accomplish and prosper...
Jeremiah 23:29 ...Is not my word like a fire...like a hammer
Acts 20:32 ...which is able to build you up and give you inheritance
Hebrews 4:12 ...is quick, powerful, sharp, piercing, dividing, discerning.
2 Timothy 2:9 ...word of God is not bound...
2 Timothy 3:16 ...is profitable for doctrine, reproof, instruction...
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