5 Bible Verses That Will Re-Ignite Your Prayer Life
Is your prayer life lagging? Do you wish you had more faith in prayer or just more motivation to pray in the first place?
As I studied the topic of prayer recently I wondered why I don’t pray
more often and for bigger, more impacting things. I realized how much I
tend to pray for what I believe is possible, rather than asking God for
the downright impossible. Yet, God wants to stretch our faith through
our prayers and show us what a big and good God He really is.
Here are five verses that will re-ignite your prayer life if you really believe them.
1. Matthew 21:22 – “If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer” (NIV).
This verse looks like a carte blanche promise. Name it and claim it.
Pray it and it’s yours. But there’s some context to this quote from our
Savior. He was teaching His disciples a lesson in faith when they were
“amazed” that a fig tree immediately withered after Jesus cursed the
tree. Jesus’ reply to them teaches us something about faith:
“Truly I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can
you do what was done to the fig tree, but also you can say to this
mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and it will be done. If
you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer” (verses 21-22).
Earlier Jesus told His disciples something similar: “Truly I tell
you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this
mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be
impossible for you” (Matthew 17:20).
Who doesn’t want to be a mountain-mover? If you and I really believed
that faith as small as a mustard seed could move something as big as a
mountain, we’d be far more concerned about how to grow in our faith,
than any other aspect of our lives. And we’d be asking God for far
bigger things.
2. 1 John 5:14-15 – “…we also know that he will give us what we ask for” (NLT).
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