Granting Plead With God In Massachusetts
Description
Form popularity
FAQ
Simply put, no, you can't make a deal with God, because His righteousness is unchanging, and our sin separates us from Him. Trying to bargain with God comes from self-righteousness and ultimately fails. Instead of making deals, we should approach God with humility and obedience, trusting in His grace.
Put Him in Remembrance It means that as a covenant believer, you can stand before the throne of God when you pray and remind Him of His promises. You can lay your case legally before Him and plead your case as a lawyer would plead his case before a judge.
Pleading with God is that part of prayer (a subset of supplication) in which we argue our case with God, as Isaac Watts wonderfully says, “in a fervent yet humble manner.” It is not just petition, but petition well-reasoned. It is not just requesting, but passionately appealing.
But the Bible teaches and shows that prayer is so much more than making requests to the Father. Not that there's anything wrong with making an appeal to God—Jesus teaches us to “ask, seek, knock” (Matthew ), and Paul urges the Philippians to “let your requests be made known to God” (Phil.
In the Lord's Prayer a petition is made for daily bread, which for Christians means principally the Eucharistic Bread, and entreating also purification from sin, so that what is holy may in truth be given to the holy.
BIBLE TEXT: 7 Hear me as I pray, O Lord. Be merciful and answer me! My heart has heard you say, “Come and talk with me.” And my heart responds, “Lord, I am coming.” Do not turn your back on me.
Article XIV. Every subject has a right to be secure from all unreasonable searches, and seizures, of his person, his houses, his papers, and all his possessions.
We, too, can plead with God in prayer as Hezekiah did and for the sake of Christ He will hear us and He will listen.