It’s DAY #2, of our 14 Day, “Loving to Talk to God”, 2022 Bible Memory Challenge. I hope you were able to memorize yesterday’s verse and that you enjoyed pondering on it.
For those of you who are just joining us, you can pick up this year’s Memory Verse List here. I post the verse here on the blog every day and discuss it a little bit, but if you don’t get time to read the blog post, just memorize the verse. That’s what is important.
Prayer & Faith
Today our thought to go along with our memory verse is, Prayer relies on faith. Our faith is an important part of our prayer life.
DAY #2 MEMORY VERSE
And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. Matthew 21:22
Prayer Relies on Faith
To get our memory verse in perspective, let’s take a look at what was taking place in Matthew 21. This is a passage of Jesus interacting with His disciples. And Jesus was teaching them different things as they journeyed together. I suggest you read Matthew 21:18-22 to really hone in on our memory verse today.
This is where Jesus talks to a fig tree. If you don’t know the story. Jesus was hungry and came to a fig tree that didn’t have any fruit on it, so He said, “Let no fruit grow on thee”. Oh, and then Jesus said, “for ever”. The fig tree immediately withered away.
I can relate when I’m hungry and go to the fridge and nothing is there to sustain me. Yeah! I stand there with the door open for a long time like something is magically going to appear. I’m like, “where’s your fruit, fridge? I’m hungry and you have nothing for me!”.
Jesus had a lesson in all this for His disciples. The disciples were astonished at how fast the fig tree died. This happened right before their eyes. They were all talking about how they were amazed, when Jesus answers them in verse 21.
Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done. Matthew 21:21
Jesus is telling them that, look, you are my disciples, and you can do amazing things too. But also He is telling them that faith is the key. Faith does things like making fig trees obey and moving mountains from land to the sea. Now that’s results!
That’s what faith gets us. Results.
And how do we get those results? By prayer of course. Prayer and faith are another one of those things that go together so well. It’s a peanut butter and jelly kind of thing.
Look in our memory verse for today.
And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. Matthew 21:22
Results from prayer aren’t just mundane things, although those things are answered in prayer for us, and Jesus wants to know all about our mundane things. But Jesus wants us to have the faith to do anything. He wants us to ask whatever we want. He wants us to abound in our faith so we can abound in our prayer life.
Look what happened with all those faith heroes in Hebrews, chapter 11, which we think of as The Hall of Faith chapter of the Bible. All those amazing things that happened in the lives of those biblical characters were because of their faith.
One of the great ways to build our faith is by God’s Word. That’s why memorizing the Bible like we are doing this challenge is so important. Remember what it says in Romans?
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Romans 10:17
Our prayer life relies on faith. That’s how we get results and when our faith starts growing and maturing in us, we will begin “Loving to Talk to God” on a deeper basis.
Okay, your turn. Leave a reply to this blog post and share something about your own faith as it relates to prayer. Or leave your thoughts on today’s memory verse. I love hearing from you!
EXTRA CHALLENGE: Read Hebrews chapter 11 today.
Have a lovely day,
Julia
2022 Bible Memory Challenge
- 2022 Memory Verse List
- DAY #1 Prayer & Priorities
- DAY #2 Prayer & Faith (You are here!)
- DAY #3 Prayer & Access
- DAY #4 Prayer & Temptation
- DAY #5 Prayer & Boldness
- DAY #6 Prayer & Dedication
- DAY #7 Prayer & Conversation
- DAY #8 Prayer & Power
- DAY #9 Prayer & Relief
- DAY #10 Prayer & Intimacy
- DAY #11 Prayer & Possibilities
- DAY #12 Prayer & Agreement
- DAY #13 Prayer & Contentment
- DAY #14 Prayer & Connection
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