Pray For The Grace To Keep God’s Covenant
Pray For The Grace To Keep God’s Covenant
Today, we will pray for the grace to keep God’s covenant. God can supply the grace to keep His covenant. He told Apostle Paul that His grace is sufficient for him. God was able to sustain Paul in his christian journey by His grace. 2 Corinthians 12:7-9 (NIV) says, “Or because of these surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me”
There is a sufficient grace to run this Christian race and to finish well. There are some challenges that you might face at times and this happens so that the power of God can be made perfect in your weakness.
Biblical Figures Who Demonstrated The Grace To Keep God’s Covenant
There are several examples of biblical figures who demonstrated the grace to keep God’s covenant. We will consider a few of them below. These individuals are celebrated for their faithfulness and commitment to the covenants God established with them, serving as examples of the grace to keep God’s covenant.
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Abraham:
Abraham is a prime example of someone who had the grace to keep God’s covenant. He faithfully obeyed God’s commands, including the difficult task of sacrificing his son Isaac. God made a covenant with Abraham, promising to make him the father of many nations (Genesis 17). Abraham’s unwavering faith and obedience are highlighted in the New Testament as well (Romans 4:3). Abraham kept God’s covenant and today, God has fulfilled everything that He promised Abraham.
2. Moses:
Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt and was the mediator of the Old Covenant between God and Israel at Mount Sinai. Despite the challenges he faced, including the constant grumbling of the people, Moses remained faithful to God’s instructions (Exodus 19-24). His dedication to God’s covenant is evident in his role in delivering the Law and his intercession for the people. Moses was a well respected Prophet who walked in God’s ways.
3. David:
King David is another figure who kept God’s covenant, though not without flaws. God made a covenant with David, promising that his descendants would rule Israel forever (2 Samuel 7:12-16). David’s heart for God and his repentance when he sinned are key aspects of his covenantal relationship with God. You might also have some flaws, but you can talk to God about those flaws and pray for the grace to keep His covenant. David said that as the deer pants after the water, so his soul pants after God. If you are a man after God’s heart like David, you will not want to offend God. So, pray for the grace to keep God’s covenant.
4. Joshua:
Joshua succeeded Moses and led the Israelites into the Promised Land. He faithfully followed God’s commands, as seen in the conquest of Canaan. Joshua renewed the covenant with the people at Shechem, urging them to serve the Lord faithfully (Joshua 24). Joshua was asking the Israelites to make a decision about whom they will serve. He said that as for him and his family, he will serve the Lord. You can also make a decision to keep God’s covenant with all the members of your household.
5. The Prophets:
Many prophets, such as Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, remained faithful to God’s covenant by calling the people of Israel back to obedience. Despite persecution and rejection, they conveyed God’s covenantal promises and warnings. As a child of God, you can also be at the forefront in leading your city or your nation back to God. So many people around the world today are keeping the wrong covenants. However, God can use you to liberate those who are in darkness who are keeping the wrong covenants. We all need the grace to keep God’s covenant. Since you cannot give what you don’t have, you have to spearhead keeping God’s covenant first before you can liberate those who are keeping the devil’s covenant.
6. Jesus Christ:
The ultimate example of keeping God’s covenant is Jesus Christ. He fulfilled the Old Covenant and established the New Covenant through His death and resurrection. Jesus’ perfect obedience to the Father and His sacrificial love are the foundation of the New Covenant (Luke 22:20, Hebrews 8:6). Jesus laid down this example for us so that you and I will have no excuse in keeping God’s covenant. He submitted fully to the will of God even when it was not convenient for Him. So, today, you and I have no excuse in keeping God’s covenant.
As we pray today, I pray that God will release unto us the grace to keep His covenant in Jesus’ name.
Prayer Points:
- Father, I thank you because your steadfast love is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear you and your righteousness to their children’s children. Lord, I thank you for giving me the grace to fear you and to keep your commandments. I pray for the grace to keep God’s covenant all the days of my life in Jesus’ name.
Psalm 103:17-18 (ESV)
“But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children’s children, to those who keep his covenant and remember to do his commandments.”
2. Father, I thank you because you are loving and faithful toward those who keep your demands and covenant. God, I pray for the grace to always keep your covenant in Jesus’ name.
Psalm 25:10 (NIV)
“All the ways of the Lord are loving and faithful toward those who keep the demands of his covenant.”
3. Father, I thank you because you are the God of heaven. Lord, I thank you because you are a great and awesome God who keeps His covenant of love with those who love Him and keep His commandments. God, I pray for the grace to always keep your covenants in Jesus’ name
Nehemiah 1:5 (NIV)
“Then I said: ‘Lord, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with those who love him and keep his commandments.'”
4. Father, I thank you because you have put your Spirit in me and you have moved me to follow your decrees and to be careful in keeping your laws. I pray for the grace to keep God’s covenant all the days of my life in Jesus’ name.
Ezekiel 36:27 (NIV)
“And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.”
5. Father, I thank you for your work in me, both to will and to work for your good pleasure. God, I receive the grace to keep your covenant all the days of my life in Jesus’ name.
Philippians 2:13 (ESV)
“For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.”
Strength to Uphold God’s Covenant
6. Father, I thank you because you are the God of peace and you have brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ, through the blood of the eternal covenant. Lord, I thank you because you are the great Shepherd of the sheep and you have equipped me with everything good for doing your will. Thank you Jesus for working in me what is pleasing to you, So, Father, I give you all the glory for ever and ever in Jesus’ name.
Hebrews 13:20-21 (NIV)
Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, 21 equip you with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
7. Father, I thank you because your grace is sufficient for me because my strength is made perfect in weakness. God, I pray for the grace to always keep your covenant in Jesus’ name.
2 Corinthians 12:9 (KJV)
“And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.”
8. Father, I thank you for giving me your Holy Spirit who has constantly intercedes for me through wordless groans. God, I pray for the grace to keep your covenant by the power of the Holy Spirit
Romans 8:26 (NIV)
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.
9. Father, I pray that you will enlarge my heart. Lord, pray for the grace to run in the way of your commandments. God, I receive the grace to keep your covenant in Jesus’ name
Psalm 119:32 (ESV)
“I will run in the way of your commandments when you enlarge my heart!”
Empowered to Keep God’s Covenant
10. Father, I pray that you will circumcise my heart and the hearts of my descendants, so that I may love you with all my heart and with all my soul and with my life. God I pray for the grace to keep your commandments all the days of my life in Jesus’ name.
Deuteronomy 30:6 (NKJV)
The Lord your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live.
11. Father, I thank you because your divine power has given me everything I need for a godly life through my knowledge of you who called me to your own glory and goodness.God, I pray for the grace to keep your covenant
2 Peter 1:3 (NIV)
His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.
12. Father, I pray that your hand will be ready to help me as I have chosen your precepts. I pray for the grace to keep your covenant all the days of my life in Jesus’ name.
Psalm 119:173 (NIV)
“May your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.”
13. Father, I thank you for making me who I am by your grace. Lord, I thank you because your grace upon my life is not without effect. Lord, I receive the grace to do your will and to obey you all the days of my life.
1 Corinthians 15:10 (NIV)
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.
Covenant Keeping Through God’s Grace
14. Father, I pray for the grace to keep your covenant. I pray that as I strenuously contend for the faith, I pray that Christ will work in me in Jesus’ name.
Colossians 1:29 (NIV)
“To this end I strenuously contend with all the energy Christ so powerfully works in me.”
15. Father, I pray for the grace to seek you with my whole heart. I pray that I will not wander from your commandments in Jesus’ name. God, I pray for the grace to keep your covenant.
Psalm 119:10-11 (ESV)
“With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments!”
16. Father, I pray that out of your glorious riches, you will strengthen me with power through your Spirit in my inner being
Ephesians 3:16 (NIV)
“I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being.”
17. Father, I thank you for the grace that has appeared that offers salvation to all people. Lord, I thank you because your grace has taught me to say no to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age.
Titus 2:11-12 (NIV)
For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. 12 It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age
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