Praying with Confidence

Psalm 119:33-48 ESV

What does it mean to

of God? (James 4:1-3)

“There is no true

with God without prayer.”
Dr. Al Mohler

Prayer requires

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“Enlarge my heart?” v.32 God frees

and liberates them to joy and confidence in order to walk in obedience to God.

1. Before you pray, check your

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   . What are you believing?
   He has an ongoing
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   for God’s precepts. vv.40,45
   He
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   in the path of God’s commandments. vv.35,47
   He
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   in God’s word. v.42
   His
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   is in God’s rules (His verdicts). v.43

2. As you pray, evaluate your requests. Where is your

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   focused?
   Teach and give me
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   vv.33-34
   Lead me — guard my
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   and
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   vv.35-37
   Fulfill your
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   of salvation (protection, life, and love) vv.38-41
   Keep my hope and my mouth
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   in faithfulness v.43

3. In response to God, David was ready to:
   lift up his hands to

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   God’s commandments v.48
   meditate on God’s
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   for safe keeping v.48
   walk in a
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   for he had sought God’s precepts v.45
   speak of
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   without shame, even before kings v.46
   
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   in God’s pure way, forever and ever v.44

“Next to the wonder of seeing my Savior will be, I think,
the wonder that I made so little use of the

of prayer.”
Dwight Moody