Prayer & Boldness

We are up to DAY #5, of the “Loving to Talk to God” Bible Memory Challenge. So glad you could join me.

If you need the Memory Verse List or want to know how the Challenge works, see this blog post.

Each day I have a thought for us to mull over to go along with each verse. Today it is, Prayer can be done with boldness. To me, that’s so exciting that our prayer life can be done is such a strong and fearless way!

DAY #5 MEMORY VERSE

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4:16

Today we are going to talk just a bit about boldness in prayer. I’m not sure if you noticed, but I mentioned this verse on DAY #3, of our Memory Challenge when we were discussing easy access to prayer.

As Christians, we have the right to walk right in and communicate with our Lord. We are His children.

Don’t you hate it when you get that awful error when you go to sign in to an app or a webpage and it says, “incorrect passcode”? It will tell you that you may need to “sign up for a new account” or “you must be a member to access”. If you can’t figure it out, you may eventually have to have them send a new password link.

I’m so glad that doesn’t happen with prayer. If we have accepted Christ, we are a “member”! We are a member of the family of God. God’s children will always have the right access code to prayer. Just one thought and we are with our Lord in prayer. No sign-ins required. Hallelujah!

We are the V.I.P. We are part of a Royal Priesthood. We have privileges when it comes to prayer.

The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: Romans 8:16

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: 1 Peter 2:9

We don’t have to worry about “incorrect passcode” errors or not being permitted when we go to the Lord in prayer. The door is always open! We have the right to enter, and we can do it boldly.

Think of it as being in an exclusive club. You get all the benefits and all of the privileges!

We can have boldness to ask for forgiveness. We can have boldness to pray for others. We can have boldness to pray for ourselves. We can have boldness to even ask for things that may seem outrageous or what others may consider “not likely”. Remember, our prayers can make fig trees obey and mountains move as we talked about in DAY #2 of our Memory Challenge regarding our faith.

And above anything we ask in prayer, we can have boldness to just drop our burdens at the feet of Jesus and leave them there. And we can just walk away from those burdens in boldness.

I mean, it’s great that we can have boldness as we enter prayer, but oh how powerful walking away in boldness after talking to the Lord can be.

You know! We can walk away like the hero at the end of a movie with the fire or explosions behind him. He’s got that unflinching face and just walks away with confidence that the bad guys are taken care of and the chaos is behind him. Those scenes should be a part of our daily life as children of God. We can walk away from our burdens after leaving them at the feet of Jesus, knowing they are taken care of by the King of Kings. Bold, cool, confident, powerful, strong, resolved, and unflinching walk-aways are what we Christians do best when we leave our burdens at the feet of Jesus in prayer.

And do you know one of the reasons why we can have all the boldness to come before the Lord in prayer? It’s because we can trust Him implicitly with our cares and concerns. We have confidence in Him, so that bolsters our boldness.

And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: 1 John 5:14

I am so glad I can talk to the Lord and tell Him all about my worries, cares, and share my feelings with Him. I can share my wants and desires because I know He will listen and take any requests I have and do the best for me with them that He can. I can go to the Lord boldly because I have the right to pray to Him, but also because I have confidence in Him. And I can breathe more easily when I have given my burdens over to the Lord.

Knowing I can go to prayer in boldness definitely makes “Loving to Talk to God” something I want to work at more.

Alright. How about you? Share your “bold” prayer story with us or give us your thoughts on today’s memory verse in a reply on this post. And just an FYI, the comments are not automatically activated. They have to be approved before they are published, so thanks for your patience. It helps me keep out spam.

Have a lovely day,
Julia

2022 Bible Memory Challenge

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Prayer & Boldness

2022 Bible Memory Challenge

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