I was asked to preach at the women’s day of prayer in our church on praying the promises of God. What a fruitful time of study this was for my own heart. Below are three reasons why praying the promises of the Bible back to God are very good for your prayer life.
The first reason praying the promises will greatly enhance your prayer life is: the promises by their nature infuse grace into our prayer life. They’re generally promises that God will do something good-- in your or someone else’s life. That’s grace because the promises are expressions of God’s love and goodness to us--grace. When we sense God’s love for us, we will want to spend time with God because he is good and he loves us. The Law on the other hand brings failure, causing us to believe that God is mad or disgusted with us. Let me ask you, how many of you get excited about going into a room alone with someone who you think is mad or disgusted with you? If you are living under Law, that’s what your prayer life is like—no wonder you don’t pray. Your prayer life will either be very weak, or, at the other extreme, because it is rooted in your own effort, it will end up producing self-righteousness in you seen when you look down your nose at others who are not devoted “prayer warriors”… like you.
