January 26: 2 Chronicles 20:1-12

Remembering WHAT GOD HAS PROMISED (8-9)

It is always appropriate to claim the promises of God. He never fails to do what He has promised. What promise can you claim today?

Jehoshaphat claimed the promise God had made to Solomon and the people back in 2 Chronicles 6:28-31, 7:12-15.

Founding our prayers on the promises of God is not meant to teach us to pray timidly, as though worried about asking for anything not explicitly written in the Scriptures. It is rather an important exercise in learning to pray in accordance with God’s will. Furthermore, these promises were not given to excuse us from praying but to teach us what to pray for and how to pray for it.

The promises on which Jehoshaphat based his prayer dealt with the gift of the land to Israel forever (Gen. l3:l5; l5:l8).By extrapolation the situation of an unprovoked enemy attack fell within the boundaries of these promises and offered great grounds for the king to ask for their defeat (2 Chron. 20:7)….

The promise of God is that he will hear and be found by all those who search for him with all their hearts. Now that has to be one of the greatest inducements that has ever been given to a ministry of prayer. As Luke’s Gospel puts it, “If [we] being evil know how to give good gifts to [our] children, how much more will [our] Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those [of us] who ask him!” (Luke 11:13 NKJV). Why do we not ask?

Walter C.. Revive Us Again . Christian Focus Publications. Kindle Edition.