Day 10: Pray with Conviction

 

Day 10:  Pray with Conviction

 

Read and Meditate on:  Mark 11: 15 – 12: 12

                                          Psalm 145: 18 – 19

                                          Mark 9: 24

      Today your journey becomes one step deeper as you learn to pray with conviction.  It is not enough to believe that Jesus is the Christ – even Satan believes.  You must act on your convictions.  Christ taught His disciples that if they prayed with conviction rather than doubt, they could move mountains. 

      We must pray, believing that He hears and that He answers.  I John 5 tells us that this is true.  Unfortunately, our human nature is to doubt what we cannot prove.  Don’t succumb to those doubts.  Like the father in Mark 9, perhaps we must begin with a prayer: “Help me overcome my unbelief”.[1] 

      Doubts are normal in a fallen world.  If you allow those doubts to control you, then you will be powerless to move an ant hill much less a mountain.  You have found the courage to begin this journey.  Drop all the unnecessary baggage, including your doubts.  Pray with conviction, confident that He is faithful who promised!

Adoration:

Confession:

Thanksgiving:

Supplication:

Father, I believe that You sent Your Son to die for my sins.  Help me to stand firm on that conviction.  I trust You in all things.  Help me to trust You more.  Remove all my doubts and help me to be bold for You.  In Jesus’ name, Amen.

“Prayer is the greatest use of my words.” Rick Warren

 


[1] Mark 9: 24

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