The halfway point of the year is almost here! Here is your official warning to start getting ready for Christmas because it will be here before you know it!
This months Scripture Writing List is focused on prayer. It’s one of my favorite Bible subjects, one of my absolute favorite privileges as a Christian woman, and something I cling fervently to when my heart is overwhelmed (lead me to the rock that is higher than I).
There is a link below the picture to download a printable PDF. Hope you enjoy!
Christie
Here is the link to download a PDF file to print.
I don’t know about ya’ll but I sure enjoyed the scripture writing this month! It covered much about prayer – how to pray, how not to pray, prayers that God has answered, how God helps us pray, and fasting and prayer…to name a few. Here is a little recap of each days verses and what we learn from them:
Day 1 – How to pray
– without ceasing and with giving thanks to Him for our blessings
Day 2 -Benefits of prayer
-The peace of God which passes all understanding that shall keep your hearts and minds
Day 3 – Confidence in prayer
– Asking in His name according to His will, He hears us
Day 4 – Asking for prayer
– Paul asking for prayer for open doors to preach the Gospel as he should
Day 5 – God Hears us
– God thinks peace toward us and not evil, and tells us to pray to Him
Day 6 – How not to pray & how to pray
– Don’t pray “for show”, its not about what other people think of your prayers. Make your requests to the Lord and He will reward you openly.
Day 7 – How not to pray
– Don’t use vain repetitions – repeating the same prayers and words just for the sake of repeating them
Day 8 – How to pray
– Pray recognizing God as your heavenly Father, trusting and wanting His will to be done, ask for your daily provisions, ask forgiveness for your sins, and confessing your forgiveness of sins committed by others against you.
Day 9 – What not to do when you fast and what to do when you fast.
– Don’t have a sad pitiful face when you fast so that you will get pity from others. Appear as you normally do so as not to attract notice.
Day 10 – Where God is when we pray
– Nigh unto us. Nigh: Near; ready to support, to forgive, or to aid and defend.
Day 11 – What God does when we call unto Him
– Answers us and shows us great and mighty things that we cant imagine!
Day 12 – Who we serve
– Even though He never sinned, Jesus know what it is like to be tempted because He was tempted. He understands our temptations.
Day 13 – God hears our prayers of heartbreak
– “my cry came before him, even unto his ears.”
Day 14 – God answers the prayers of average people
– Elias was a normal guy like us and because of his earnest prayer, God held back the rain…for 3 years and 6 months!! He prayed again and God sent the rain back!
Day 15 – We can pray and be joyful even in bondage AND get our prayers answered
– Paul & Silas prayed and sang praises in prison and God opened the prison doors and loosed their bands!
Day 16 – How to pray
– Pray in faith – not wavering – completely trusting that God will answer.
Day 17 – How we should treat/pray for our enemies
– Pray for those that insult or treat you wrong.
Day 18 – How we should pray
– Ask in Jesus’ name
Day 19 – What causes God not to hear our prayer
– If we hold onto things that we know are sin, God will not hear our prayers.
Day 20 – How to pray when we don’t know what to pray
– As we struggle to express our hearts in prayer, our groaning are not in vain because the Spirit of God is in those groanings making intercession for us.
Day 21 – How to start your day
– “in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up” – no better way to start our day!
Day 22- How God can answer in our distress
– He sets us in a safe place where even the most powerful man cant touch us.
Day 23 – Whose prayers God hears and don’t hear
– God hears the prayers of the righteous (servants of God) and He is against those that do evil.
Day 24 – Power in fasting
– From a commentary I read –
“The dangers to travelling caravans from the Bedouin Arabs that prowl through the desert were in ancient times as great as they still are; and it seems that travellers usually sought the protection of a military escort. But Ezra had spoken so much to the king of the sufficiency of the divine care of His people that he would have blushed to apply for a guard of soldiers. Therefore he resolved that his followers should, by a solemn act of fasting and prayer, commit themselves to the Keeper of Israel. Their faith, considering the many and constant perils of a journey across the Bedouin regions, must have been great, and it was rewarded by the enjoyment of perfect safety during the whole way.[1]
Day 25 – Praying for forgiveness
– If we want the Lord to have a forgiving spirit toward us for our wrong doings , we should forgive those who have wronged us.
Day 26 – God answers prayer
– God healed Hezekiah
Day 27 – Power of intercessory prayer
– The church prayed without ceasing for Peter while he was in prison and the Lord set him free!
Day 28 – Praying because we are fearful
– “I sought the Lord , and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.”
Day 29 – Humble prayer in trouble
– The humble man prayed and the Lord saved him from his troubles by surrounding him with protection and delivering him.
Day 30 – Answers to prayer and church fasting
– The church prayed and fasted and the Holy Spirit let them know that He wanted Barnabus and Saul to be sent in the work of the Lord.
Day 31 – Prayer of salvation
– “whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved”
