How To Pray With Confidence And Claim God’s Promises

Many Christians pray without ever specifically claiming God’s promises over their situations, or they pray ineffectively out of fear of being presumptuous with God, lack of faith, or other reasons.

To strengthen our prayer life, here are examples from God’s Word of how to pray effectively and claim God’s promises with confidence:

Then Jacob prayed, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, Lord, you who said to me, ‘Go back to your country and your relatives, and I will make you prosper.’” (Gen. 32:9)

[King David]: “And now, Lord, let the promise you have made concerning your servant and his house be established forever. Do as you have promised.” (1 Chron. 17:23)

[King Solomon]: “Now Lord, the God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father the promises you made to him when you said, ‘You shall never fail to have a successor to sit before me…’“ (1 Kings 8:25)

Sustain me, my God, according to your promises, and I will live; do not let my hopes be dashed. (Psa. 119:116)

Praying with confident faith will become natural once we realize that “God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus” (Eph. 2:6), that, in Jesus, we are “the righteousness of God” (2 Cor. 5:21), and that we are “heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ” (Rom. 8:17).

It is the Evil One who would have us crawl before our Father God, begging Him for an audience. Our adversary knows this kind of weak “prayer” is not born of faith and is ineffective.

God wants us to bring our requests before Him with confidence born out of faith, realizing who we are as the children of God. After all, God sent His Son, Jesus, to Earth as a man to make it easy for us to approach God with confidence:

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin. Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. (Heb. 4:15-16)

May your faith be encouraged. Lift up your voice to our Father God in the Name of His Son, Jesus, in bold confidence today!