Praying With Knowledge And Understanding

Spirit & Life Devotional
Monday, 11 January 2016
Chinaemerem Joshua Ibezim

Praying With Knowledge And Understanding

"Then I set my face toward the Lord God to make request by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes." Daniel 9:3 NKJV

You see, Daniel didn't just get down on his knees to start praying; Daniel said, "In the first year of his (Darius) reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years specified by the word of the Lord through Jeremiah the prophet, that He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem." It was based on the knowledge and understanding that he acquired from the Scripture that he prayed. He didn't just pray for deliverance, he knew it was time for deliverance so he prayed. And God answered.

So many people pray every second of the day but with little results because they are not praying with knowledge and understanding of the will of God concerning a particular situation. 1 John 5:14 says, "Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us." Meaning that He doesn't hear us if we don't ask according to His will.

Is it what God wants to do? Does He want to do it now? Is there anything He has said in the scriptures concerning it? Do we have a part to play in the fulfilment of His will? Are there things we should do first that will enable Him do His part? Are there things we are doing or have not done that are restraining Him? We've got to familiarize ourselves with the word of God for our prayers to be truly effective.

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