{"id":1816,"date":"2024-11-08T11:23:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T11:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drkenrpruitt.com\/KP2\/KP2\/?p=1816"},"modified":"2024-11-04T17:38:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T17:38:51","slug":"november-8-confidence-in-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drkenrpruitt.com\/KP2\/november-8-confidence-in-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"November 8, confidence in prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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That we may receive grace and mercy.<\/strong> Hebrews 4:16<\/p>\n\n

Pray.\u00a0\u00a0Pray earnestly and pray often.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Prayer represents the sacred conversation between you and your Heavenly Father made possible because God sent His Son, who has become our High Priest and has made a way for us into God\u2019s presence.\u00a0\u00a0So, pray.\u00a0\u00a0Pray like you believe these truths, for they indeed represent the theology behind our prayers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

In keeping with this theme, did you know that our personal prayer life not only reveals what we believe about Jesus and about God, but our prayer life can demonstrate what we believe about man (and more significantly about our needs as mankind)?\u00a0\u00a0The Bible instructs in Hebrews 4:16 that because of what Jesus has accomplished, we can come into God\u2019s presence to receive mercy and find grace in our time of need.<\/p>\n\n

God\u2019s throne is called \u201cthe throne of grace.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0The term \u201cthrone\u201d represents a place of power and rule.\u00a0\u00a0God powerfully rules, and through His reign demonstrates His gracious love.\u00a0\u00a0At His throne, grace and mercy are found in abundance.\u00a0\u00a0And, this represents our invitation to pray.\u00a0\u00a0This is our opportunity to come before God with all our needs, those seemingly overwhelming needs, and even those that are categorized as daily needs.\u00a0\u00a0We are to bring our needs before our God in the name of Christ.\u00a0\u00a0And, why? Because we stand in need of His gracious love. Mankind is empty in and of Himself \u2013 desperately in need of grace and mercy.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0But there at God\u2019s throne, in His presence, we will find all the grace and mercy our needful status requires.\u00a0\u00a0We come through Jesus our High Priest to a God who has given us adoption into His family.\u00a0\u00a0And, with these facts as the foundation of our confidence, we bring our needs before God.\u00a0\u00a0We cannot be sure how God will answer. But we know grace and mercy await our requests.\u00a0\u00a0We cannot be certain of fulling understanding God\u2019s responses to our needs and our requests, but His mercy and grace flows ever abundant for the one who comes to Him by faith in Christ.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

This represents your life of prayer: bringing petitions and supplications before God. And as you come into God\u2019s presence with your needs, you are not to demand answers nor attempt to offer prayers bent on the inclinations of the carnal man.\u00a0\u00a0You are invited to bring your needs, all of them, before your Heavenly father and to seek His grace and mercy.\u00a0\u00a0You should not expect that God will always answer exactly as you have asked, but you can always expect to be met with grace and mercy.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

How can we be sure of God\u2019s grace and mercy?\u00a0\u00a0Jesus,\u00a0our High Priest<\/em>, sympathizes with our every need and weakness:<\/p>\n\n

For we do not have a high priest\u00a0who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are\u2014yet He did not sin. (Hebrews 4:15)<\/em><\/p>\n\n

Jesus sympathizes with our weaknesses.\u00a0\u00a0He endured humanity, though perfectly God in the flesh.\u00a0\u00a0And although struggles mounted against Him on every side, both internally and externally, He did not sin.\u00a0\u00a0He had not even the remotest thought that would contradict God\u2019s Holiness and His own incarnation.\u00a0\u00a0He lived on this earth perfectly.\u00a0\u00a0And He knows our struggles and our weaknesses.\u00a0\u00a0For, He overcame them in His perfection. And now He brings to us grace and mercy in our time of weaknesses and in our needs.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

A king visited a prison and told the jailer that he wished to give one person at least his liberty. So, he went around to all the cells and asked each prisoner why he was in jail. They all asserted their innocence of crime and blamed others for their misfortunes. Finally, he came to a poor down-cast fellow who said “I am guilty of the crime for which I was convicted and I am getting my just desserts.” \u201cThat is the man\u201d said the king \u201cI wish to liberate. He can be trusted with His liberty.\u201d All the rest were willing to receive a favor from the king, but only this one was in an attitude of mind to receive his mercy. \u201cA sinner saved by grace\u201d begins the Christian experience, and it is the foundation on which everything else is\u00a0built.\u00a0<\/em>(Pastor A. C. Dixon, 1908).[1]<\/a><\/p>\n\n

Our greatest need is for grace and mercy.\u00a0\u00a0And, when we understand this, our prayers will forever be transformed.\u00a0\u00a0We will no longer approach God timidly, nor out of presumption.\u00a0\u00a0We will approach Him with confidence that of all the needs that are manifested in our lives, He has promised to meet us at our greatest need: the need for grace and mercy. And this He has met in Christ.\u00a0\u00a0Upon His grace and mercy are all other needs are met.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

So today, bring your needs to Him.\u00a0\u00a0And expect that He will meet your requests with His grace and mercy.\u00a0\u00a0And as you receive the continued flow of grace and mercy, be amazed at how He will indeed respond to and answer your prayers according to His heart for you.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Blessings.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

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That we may receive grace and mercy. Hebrews 4:16 Pray.\u00a0\u00a0Pray earnestly and pray often.\u00a0\u00a0 Prayer represents the sacred conversation between you and your Heavenly Father made possible because God sent His Son, who has become our High Priest and has made a way for us into God\u2019s presence.\u00a0\u00a0So, pray.\u00a0\u00a0Pray like you believe these truths, for …<\/p>\n

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