What Kind of Prayer Does God Answer and WHY?
The answer to this question is found in the first chapter of the book of Jeremiah.
Jeremiah 1:12:
“I will hasten (supervise, watch-over, protect, look after) My Word to perform it …”
God would answer our Word of God based prayers because He watches over His Word to perform or demonstrate it.
Another reason why God would give attention to and answer Word of God based prayers is because God has placed the greatest and utmost value on His Word. The bible confirms this by declaring thus:
“Thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.” — Psalms 138:2
Jesus also confirmed this by saying:
“Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away” — Matthew 24:35
The Bible also declares:
“There has not failed one Word of all His good promise……” — 1 Kings 8:56
No word spoken by God has ever failed. God daily — moment by moment, watches over His Word to perform it.
So, when you pray Word of God based prayers, you are guaranteed that you will have whatsoever you desire. John the Apostle confirmed this also when He said:
“And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us. And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.” — 1 John 5:14–15
Asking anything according to the will of God means to pray in line with the Word of God. Using the promises or the Word of God to pray gives us confidence that what we asked for would be granted. This is how we become effective in prayer and in ministry.
THE LAW COURT EXAMPLE
When an attorney goes to court on behalf of his client, he does not just stand before the judge and say “My Lord, I demand that you give judgment in favour of my client”.
No judge would respond to that. The attorney would have to produce evidences, witnesses, or reference to results of similar cases that was settled in court.
The final judgment given by the judge would be based on the weight, merit, relevance and validity of those evidences, testimonies of witnesses and similar case references sighted and used by the attorney to prove his case.
The above law court scenario is similar to praying with scriptures. God is the Judge; you are the attorney; and the Word God is the evidence which is made up of references to:
- God’s promises.
- Similar biblical cases, events and situations as yours
- Biblical testimonials of God’s love, mercy, goodness and power
- Accurate Holy Spirit interpretation of the meaning of scripture
Taking all of these and presenting them before God is the art of praying with scriptures, and this is the kind of prayer God gives quick attention to.
No person in the world, who consistently adopts this principle of praying with scriptures, has ever been denied, for God will do nothing outside of His Word.
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