Is not my word like fire, declares the LORD, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces? Jeremiah 23:29
The Word of God is the fulcrum upon which the lever of prayer is placed, and by which things are mightily moved. There would seem to be in prayer the capacity for going even beyond the Word, of getting even beyond His promise, into the very presence of God, Himself. –E.M. Bounds
Do you use God’s Word as you pray? The following verses are wonderful to pray back to God. Use these in your prayer time this week or find some on your own. Discover the power the Word of God has to affect the way you pray and the way God responds.
- Lord, help _________ dwell in the shelter of the Most High and find rest in the shadow of the Almighty. Psalm 91:1
- God give _________ the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of You, enlighten the eyes of ___________’s heart so _____________ may know what is the hope to which You have called him/her. Ephesians 1:17-18
- Lord, I pray that ________ would be rooted and established in Your love, and that __________ would have power together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep the love of Christ is, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge so that _________ may be filled with all the fullness of God. Ephesians 3:17-19
- Lord, would you direct ___________’s heart to the love of God and the steadfastness of Christ. 2 Thessalonians 3:5