How Praying the Scriptures Leads to Miracles

Posted on Mar 30, 2017 Topic : Inspirational/Devotional, Women's Christian Living
Posted by : Sally Burke

This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.
1 John 5:14-15

What a powerful promise we have in these verses! God says He will give us anything we ask for. It doesn’t say He might answer the prayer, or that sometimes He’ll say no. It says, “We have what we asked of him.” That’s 100 percent of the time! Granted, it might not be in our timing, but it’s always in God’s perfect timing. And the answer is always yes.

But there is one caveat: We must ask according to God’s will. Ah, now that’s the tricky part. How can we possibly know God’s will? The only way to truly know God’s will is to pray the Scriptures. As it says in 2 Timothy 3:16, “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness.”

When I was a young mom and a new believer in Christ, I had never actually prayed out loud. So when I stepped into my first Moms in Prayer meeting, I listened. Just listened. For six weeks I prayed along in my heart but didn’t say a word.

But after those six weeks, I was brave enough to audibly pray the Scripture for my child. The Holy Spirit gave me the courage to speak out His Word, to pray His truth for my son. What a life-changing experience, praying for my son, hearing other moms pray for my son!

God’s answers poured out like a flood that first year; our group witnessed dramatic miracles. God healed children of major illnesses. We saw changes in kids’ attitudes and behaviors. We prayed that every child would hear the good news, and He brought a Good News Club to our campus. And several teachers at our elementary school accepted Christ as their Savior.

Eventually, I was leading my own Moms in Prayer group. We’d pray for our public school teachers, adapting Acts 26:18: “May [teacher’s name] open his/her eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in Christ.” One day a mom came into the group upset about a certain teacher. I said, “That’s the teacher we’re going to pray for today!”

We prayed for that teacher week after week, and God grew our love for her. Soon she came to know the Lord, and my two youngest got to be in her class. It was an honor to watch her grow in Christ. But she wasn’t the only teacher who became a Christian on that public school campus. Eleven other teachers came to Christ as we prayed Acts 26:18 over them!

Want to see God at work? Pray the Scriptures over the people in your life. If you pray according to His will, you can be assured of His answer. And His will is the mighty Word of God, which never comes back void (see Isaiah 55:10-11).