What God speaks to you in His Word, you speak to Him in prayer
“Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia, After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not. And they passing by Mysia came down to Troas.
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Scripture Reading (God says to me): “Surely the Lord will do nothing unless He reveals His secret counsel to His servants the prophets” (Amos 3:7).
To some God may seem secretive and reluctant to disclose His purposes. But those who really know God find Him most communicative and One who takes great pleasure in sharing with them what He is about to do.
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“I the Lord have spoken it, and I will do it. I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel to do it for them” (Ezekiel 36:36a,37b).
The above quotation of Scripture highlights the living and workable relationship between the promises of God and our prayers regarding the fulfillment of those promises.
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“Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord” (Genesis 6:8b).
“Joseph found grace in his sight…” (Genesis 39:4b). This was when Joseph found favor in the eyes of Potiphar, one of Pharaoh’s highest officers.
“Esther… obtained grace and favor in his sight more than all…”
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“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
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Scripture Reading (God speaks to me): “Ask of me and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.” (Psalm 2:8).
God spoke this to David and to David’s dynasty, the last one of the royal line being none other than the King of Kings and Lord of Lords,
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Before it happened, I had read:
“Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man; which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war. They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips.
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Scripture Reading (God talks to me in my heart): “When Thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto Thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.” (Psalm 27:8).
“My heart has heard You say, `Come and talk with Me, O my people.’
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