The promises of God must be prayed about to be properly understood. For example, how was Abraham to understand the word of God that he “will be exceedingly fertile” when even having one son took a miracle? And how were his descendants to understand “the gift of the whole land of Canaan as a permanent possession” when they were exiled from that land for nineteen hundred years? The proper understanding of the promises of Jesus are not obvious either. It takes careful prayerful discernment to understand, “Whoever keeps my word will never see death.” As we enter into these days commemorating the events of Jesus suffering and death we need to bring the Word of God into prayer to penetrate what God is telling us.
