Stating Your Case Before God

SOURCE - Prayer Secret #4 - Properly Stating Your Case Before God

• Key phrases
  • “reason together” with Him
  • “state our case” before Him
  • “contend together” with Him

Isaiah-1v18

Isaiah 1:18

“Come now, let us reason together,“
says the LORD.
”Though your sins are like scarlet,
they will be as white as snow;
though they are as red as crimson,
they will become like wool.

Isaiah-43v25-26

Isaiah 43:25-26

25 I, yes I, am He
who blots out your transgressions for My own sake
and remembers your sins no more.

26 Remind Me, let us argue the matter together.
State your case, so that you may be vindicated.

• Ask the Holy Spirit if this situation warrants this type of ‘mode’ with God.

  • Create a desire in God to want to answer your prayer
    • ??? (God, is this true? It doesn’t line up with what I think the Bible says about You. It also sounds like an attempt to manipulate You. )

• Decide how strong you need to state your case before Him.

  • Is it something simple?
  • Or is it more crucial, or an emergency?

• Form your case

  • as to WHY you would like God to do ___ for ___
  • analyze the person’s life that you are praying for

• Example

  • Moses standing in the gap on behalf of Israel after God said He was going to destroy them.
    • He “changed God’s mind”

Exodus-32v11-14

Exodus 32:11-14

11 But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God, saying, “O LORD, why does Your anger burn against Your people, whom You brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand? 12 Why should the Egyptians declare, ‘He brought them out with evil intent, to kill them in the mountains and wipe them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your fierce anger and relent from doing harm to Your people. 13 Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to whom You swore by Your very self when You declared, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised, and it shall be their inheritance forever.’ ”

14 So the LORD relented from the calamity He had threatened to bring on His people.