God hears our conversations. The Lord said, “When you ‘multiplied your words against me; I heard it (Ezekiel 35:13).'”
God hears our prayers. “O Lord, you hear my voice (from Psalm 5:3).”
Speak and pray respectfully.
God Hears
Reply
God Does Good
“I will do more good to you than ever before. Then you will know that I am the Lord (Ezekiel 36:11).”
Say thank you.
God Gives Life
Dry bones came to life and became an exceedingly great army when God gave them breath (See Ezekiel 37:1-10). This story is a powerful picture of what God does.
Keep praying for those who need life. Jesus came “that they may have life and have it abundantly (John 10:10).”
Allowed to Pray
God said, “I will let the house of Israel ask me to do for them (Ezekiel 36:37).”
God chooses to let us pray. Every day.
Be Quick to Pray
The greatest tragedy in life is not unanswered prayer, but unoffered prayer.*
Be quick to pray.
*F.B. Meyer as quoted by Peter Grant, Moody Alumni & Friends, Fall 2019, p.17.
How to pray a “Standing in the Breach” Prayer
When Moses stood in the breach for the people, I notice he implored the Lord based on His promises and His reputation.
What do you notice?
“O Lord!” he said. “Why are you so angry with your own people whom you brought from the land of Egypt with such great power and such a strong hand? Why let the Egyptians say, ‘Their God rescued them with the evil intention of slaughtering them in the mountains and wiping them from the face of the earth’?
Turn away from your fierce anger. Change your mind about this terrible disaster you have threatened against your people! Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. You bound yourself with an oath to them, saying, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the starts of haven. And I will give them all the land that I have promised to your descendants, and they will possess it forever.'”
So the Lord changed his mind about the terrible disaster he had threatened to bring on his people (Exodus 32:11-14).”
One Person’s Prayers Can Change Everything
God was justifiably angry with his people. “He said he would destroy them—had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to turn away his wrath from destroying them (Psalm 106:23).”
Another time God said, “I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none (Ezekiel 22:30).”
Be the one to stand in the breach and pray.
