How To Pray For The Impossible
Episode 23
What do you do when faced with a situation you know you should pray about, but it seems too impossible? Even for Jesus to fix! Here are six practical and scriptural steps to take to pray confidently and effectively for those impossible problems in our life.
Show Notes
What impossible situation do you face? Our whole society seems to facing some these days. This month I’m working on a series about prayer. Our best bet in the face of impossible is to pray.
Today’s is HOW to pray for the impossible.
Six Steps to Pray For The Impossible
Praying in faith that God can do the impossible.
1 Kings 17:17-24
Be like Elijah with dead boy.
Can complain but keep crying out.
Keep praying.
1 Samuel 12:23: Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you, and I will instruct you in the good and the right way.
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Complain to God, but don’t despair.
Psalm 102:1, 17 ESV - A Prayer of one afflicted, when he is faint and pours out his complaint before the LORD. Hear my prayer, O LORD; let my cry come to you! ... 17 he regards the prayer of the destitute and does not despise their prayer.
List everything that is bad.
Psalm 102:1a- pours out his complaint before the LORD
Thank God for every single thing
Claim this for God’s glory
Pray redemption and restoration.
Take from Satan and put in the Lord’s hands
Draw a cross over the top
Now it’s in Lord’s hands. LEAVE IT THERE.
Keep looking for answer. LIVE IN FAITH
1 Kings 18:41-46
Elijah kept his face between his knees, praying. AND he kept looking in expectation for the answer.
Believe the promise even if don’t see it. It might be far off.
Hebrews 11:13- These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
Remember.
Write down what God’s done before in your life. In your child’s life
Ask Him to remind or reveal His answers. Keep a running list. Read. Remember. Have faith.
Psalm 77:3-20
Keep praying.
When we remember the impossible He’s accomplished in the past, we have hope to pray. And- We can pray for the impossible because nothing is impossible with God. We can pray for the impossible and live by the promises, because we know He keeps working into eternity.