The Daily Guide
Prayer in the sphere of God's design
"While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, And day and night shall not cease."
Genesis 8:22 - NKJV
This morning I was feeling a little bit put out by the state of the British weather. Instead of sunny skies this Summer is currently dominated by rain and cool air. Whenever I sense in myself any sort of dissatisfaction with the state of things I turn to God in prayer seeking a change. So in this also I started to pray and called upon the Lord for change.
This triggered my other habit, considering what is available in God's Word as a precedent or precious promise for the request I'm making in my prayer. As I did this, immediately into my thinking came the scripture in Genesis about the continuation as long as the Earth endures of Winter and Summer. This was the confirmation the prayer I was making had its context in God's Word. It was giving me precedent and precious promise for it. If you don't pray within the context of God's Word you risk directing your prayer outside of the sphere of God's design.
That scripture gave my heart confidence that what I was praying was firmly within the sphere of God's design. So in prayer I commit my desire to the Lord in faith. What a sense of peace comes when your prayer of faith releases your concerns and desires into the Lord's hands. Following it, you wait with expectation for the manifestation of the answer. Whatever you are feeling put out by form it into a prayer that takes it's context from God's Word. 1Joh.5:14 - 15, Phil.4:6-7.
Set your prayer in the context of God's Word
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