Prayer for Finances
A number of
people who have gone through
Release the Power of Psalm
91, our free
mini-course, have written me regarding financial
problems:
“How to pray?”
I took the situation to the Lord, asking for advice.
“How do you give a simple answer to something that
could take a volume to explain in Scriptural terms?”
The Lord kindly returned a simple prayer.
In fact, it was so simple as to be almost embarrassing.
(I’m quite wordy, if you haven’t noticed!)
Simple, but powerful! I began to get feedback from folks
and gave glory to God for their breakthroughs. Breakthrough
came rather quickly considering God is not on our
timetable.
Details
were somewhat similar:
•
Payments that
had been held up came through.
•
Money denied
was released and given over.
•
Contested
inheritance came through.
We’re
talking large sums of money!
Two days ago a friend called me to report that all the
financial stress they were in had been settled. The final
word had just come from her accountant. She is getting an
$8000 tax refund. She is incredulous. She was expecting to
have to pay; and, she has never gotten a return before!
I hung up the phone, praising God, and decided I need to
share this prayer more broadly. So here we go.
The
prayer is based on Zechariah 4:6-7.
Zerubbabel has
struggled to build the temple amid all many and means of
problems. An angel comes with encouragement and wisdom:
This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel:
“Not
by might nor by power but by My Spirit”
says the Lord of Hosts.
Who are you great mountain?
Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain!
And he shall bring forth the capstone
With shouts of “Grace, grace to it!”
Basically, the message to Zerubbabel and to us is that some
problems are beyond our ability to fix, no matter how
powerful or talented we may be. Where our power fails, the
task is completed by the Spirit of the Lord. He gets
credit. We do not!
So here is the prayer in all its
simplicity:
Lord, this
day I take authority over the thief regarding
(the
situation)
(John
10:10)
And, I shout “Grace, grace!” to this mountain.
(Zechariah 4:6-7)
How
to pray it:
•
Pray it each
day, taking authority over the thief for
this day.
•
Any
time during the day when the situation comes to mind, pray
the prayer again.
•
Pray this
instead of fretting.
Part
of the power of this prayer:
•
Recognizing and
confessing that the problem is too big for you, but
manageable by God is a big step. You roll the burden of the
problem onto the Burden Bearer, just as Jesus instructed.
(Matt
11:30)
•
As
you repeat the prayer instead of allowing fear to grip you,
your mind is renewed. You begin to think like God regarding
the situation. This increases faith tremendously and when
you have faith the size of a mustard seed,
“you
will say to this mountain, ‘move from here to
there’, and it will move; and nothing will be
impossible for you.” (Matt
17:20)
Glory to God! This is where we are called to be. If you
need more encouragement, read
Faith, a good
intro to the topic.
For a power tool to help you stay focused on God's goodness
and faithfulness to you, use
No Storm Too
Great, a CD set
of scripture prayer based on Psalm 91.