This article will look at why praying out of “It is done” is in most cases a better way of praying. Here are 4 reasons:

1.Because God is a good Father

We often treat God like we need to pester God in prayer and wear Him down until He finally gives in and gives us what we want. If it is a good thing we are asking for then what loving Father won’t give us what we ask for. It’s already done. We just need to thank Him that the answer will come and focus on praise. Jesus tells the parable of the Persistenet Widow. Jesus concludes with:

“And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? ⁸ I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly.”  (Lk 18:7-8)

That is God is not like the unjust Judge who needs to be pestered.

The problem for us is with patience. God tests our faith and trust in His character by letting us wait. If we begin to doubt or criticise God then we have taken back our prayers and are falling into unbelief.

2.This is the way most Psalmists pray

Go through all the psalms and highlight the verses that actually make a prayer request. They are in the minority. Most verses are declaring who God is and praising Him that He will answer. That is the emphasis of prayer is on TRUST not on making requests.

Look at the famous Ps 23. there is not a sigle request in it. It’s all declaration of who God is and what He does. It finishes with the declaration:

You prepare a table before me
    in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil;
    my cup overflows.
⁶ Surely your goodness and love will follow me
    all the days of my life

It is done. Prayer is strongly relational and based on trust. God heard us the first time and then we are just remaining in Him until the answer comes and praising Him in the meantime for His great and awesome goodness.

3. David doesn’t pray to God to defeat Goliath

David simply acts on faith that this is God’s will. He knows God well enough to know that is is guaranteed that God will give him victory:

“This day the Lord will deliver you into my hands, and I’ll strike you down and cut off your head,” he decares boldly.

We need to declare the promises of God and then act in faith out of them like David. It is powerful when we do.

4. Because all the promise of God are “yes” in Jesus

2 Cor 1:20 proclaims boldly:

“For no matter how many promises God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ”

When Jesus died and rose again, He finished his great work of salvation and sent the Holy Spirit, who is the “giving gift”. That is He gives to us all the resources of salvation for our blessing and use to succeed in building the Kingdom here on the earth. Jesus is very generous in this, so we can expect great things. if we are willing to pray in faith, declare the truths of Scripture and wait.

Obviously there are some prayers that we make that we don’t know the answer to, and so we need to ask several times about it until we know what the will of God is. But most of our needs are already covered in Scripture and we just need to walk in it, out of “It is done”.

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