Prayer Basics - Petitioning Prayer (Daily Devotional)

Greetings and thank you for joining us today and for giving us the opportunity to come and spend these few moments with you in the word of God in prayer. This week, we are talking about prayer basics and just revisiting some very foundational aspects of prayer. We started off in 1 Timothy chapter 2, verse 1 which we're going to read again today and we zero in a little bit on petitioning prayer, just get a little deeper on that. In 1 Timothy chapter 2, verse 1, Paul said, "I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men." So, he talked about four different kinds of prayer and we are focusing on supplications or petitioning prayer. Petitioning prayer as we explained yesterday is a prayer that's very specific for a particular need that we want to bring before God and so we started talking about how we do that. We take the scriptures where God has promised to address that kind of a need, whether it's provision, healing, protection, finances, God has made promises to address that kind of a need. So basically, we are petitioning God to fulfill that word to address that particular need, that's a prayer of petition. We're not asking God to do something He never promised to do. No, we're just saying, God, you promised this and here's a situation or a need that we want to have addressed. And so, we petitioning God for it, whether it's for your own self or whether it's for somebody else. In 1 Timothy chapter 2, verse 1 Paul is saying for all people, everybody, you petition God, you're bringing a very specific situation, a specific request based on His word you're asking Him to provide or to intervene in that. How do we pray petition prayer? 1 John chapter 5 and verse 14, the apostle John teaches us, he says this in verse 14, ‘now this is the confidence that we have in Him that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.’ Verse 15, ‘and if He know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we asked of Him.’ He says, look, as long as you're asking according to His will, that means His word because God's word is God's will. So, we have the promise of God, we have the word of God, then you know that you're asking according His will, you're petitioning according to His will. And when we know we petition according to His will, He says we know He hears us and if we know He hears us, the confidence we have is we have the petitions that we desired of Him that God will do it. So that's how we petition God, according to His word, with confidence and knowing that we have what we've asked, that's important. We don't petition God with doubt, we don't petition God saying maybe, may not be, if He said it... Well, if He said it, He's going to do it. So, there's no element of doubt and faith is so important when we petition. John tells us we pray with that confidence and we know that we have the petition that we desired of Him. We pray with that confidence and that God will do it because He promised it. Father, we thank you that we can pray with absolute confidence when we petition you God to fulfill your word to address our needs. We thank you, in Jesus' name, Amen.
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