Isaiah 35:3 Strengthen the feeble hands, steady the knees that give way; say to those with fearful hearts, “Be strong, do not fear;”

• DAY 5 BIBLE READING

Mark 4-9


• DAY 5 PRAYER DEVOTIONAL

Isaiah 35:3

HAVE FAITH IN THE PROMISES OF GOD. DO NOT FEAR

The devotional on Day 1 asked the question –‘How do you see your prayer time? Do you see it chiefly as an obligation or duty …as a means of maintaining your own Christian life. If your prayer life is motivated primarily by a sense of obligation or duty then it is really guilt and fear that are the driving forces behind your prayer life. If you have a rising faith that is quickened by the promises of God that He will answer your prayers and if you have a growing desire for those prayers to be answered, then you are well placed to begin to cry out to God in prayer and supplication.

Fraser wrote ‘ real supplication is the child of heartfelt desire, and cannot prevail without it; a desire not of earth nor of our sinful hearts, but wrought into us by God himself. Oh for such desires ! There is a sense in which your deep holy desire is in itself prayer. We read in Psalm 10:17 ‘ You hear O Lord the desire of the afflicted… you listen to their cry…’ Andrew Murray says ‘desire is the soul of prayer, and the cause of insufficient or unsuccessful prayer is very much to be found in the lack or feebleness of desire.’

Instead of fear and guilt, before we pray we should surrender our emotions, surrender our desires. Fear is the enemy of faith in the promises of God. Yield every bit of fear and anxiety and surrender wholeheartedly to the will of God.

Call out to God for your desires to be stirred..…and persevere.. and when you are sure that you know the will of God concerning a matter that God has placed on your heart, do not give up until you have prevailed with God and God has lifted the prayer burden from you. Without the dynamic of perseverance much prayer remains unanswered. If the wilderness is surely to blossom, if life is going to break out in our personal prayer lives and if revival is break out in our nation then we will need to be listen to God’s promises, believe them and allow Godly desires to grow in us, so that we hold on in faith and persevere in prayer until the answer comes. There is no other way. It is by faith and perseverance that we inherit the promises of God.. not by fear and doubt.


• Lord I surrender my fears to you. Fears of not being acceptable. Having been orphaned at the Fall, in the garden of Eden, so I surrender that deep fear of rejection to you Lord. Thank you Lord Jesus that you have made a way for me to be restored into relationship with the Father. I pray for that quickening of my faith and the stirring of my desire to pray. Revive me by your Spirit, strengthen and steady me again that through faith and perseverance I might inherit the promises of God!

Duewel, W Mighty Prevailing Prayer, 67, 68, 149, 150

Fraser, Mrs J.O Fraser and Prayer