Are You Praying Like a Good Lawyer? ⚖️ Now, that's probably not a question you've been asked before! 😂 But there's a reason we're asking. In this week's devotional, we're looking at the prayer of faith and why prayer isn't about convincing God to do something. It's about knowing His Word, believing His promises, and approaching Him with confidence. Isaiah 43:26 says, “Put me in remembrance; let us argue together; set forth your case, that you may be proved right.” God doesn't need us to remind Him of His promises. Sometimes we're the ones who need reminding! We're also sharing a beautiful healing testimony that demonstrates why our faith cannot depend on what we see or feel in the moment. As you study THIS WEEK’S DEVOTIONAL, pay attention to the difference between praying from desperation and praying with confidence in God's Word. You don't have to beg a good Father to be good. Learn His Word, believe it, and pray it! ❤️

Sometimes disappointment doesn’t cause us to stop believing in God. It simply causes us to stop expecting anything. We can still pray, read our Bible, go to church, and say that we believe, while somewhere along the way we quietly lowered our expectations because hoping again felt too risky. If that describes any part of your heart, we want to pray with you. This prayer is about allowing hope to rise again, not because circumstances suddenly look better, but because our hope has never been rooted in circumstances. Our hope is in God and what He has spoken. Before you begin THIS PRAYER, think about the area where disappointment has affected your expectation the most. Don’t try to manufacture hope or talk yourself into feeling differently. Simply bring that area before the Lord and pray with us. Then receive Psalm 42:5 personally: “I will put my hope in God!” You don’t have to protect yourself from disappointment by living without expectation. Let the Word of God become bigger in your heart than what you have experienced.

We love the moment when God touches us and everything changes. But what happens the next morning when circumstances begin challenging what we received? Sometimes the breakthrough is instantaneous, but learning to walk in it is a process. In THIS WEEK‘S DEVOTIONAL, Julie shares her personal testimony of learning to walk again after brain surgery and how that experience taught her to stand on God's Word, take thoughts captive, and keep moving forward in faith. A difficult day doesn't erase what God has done. You don't have to accept every thought that comes against your breakthrough. You received the breakthrough. Now learn to walk in it. Read this week's devotional and be encouraged to keep standing on what God has said. Let's talk about it: What has helped you continue standing in faith when your circumstances seem to contradict God's promises?

When we want to understand the love of God, we can look at Jesus. His coming to earth was love revealed. Everywhere Jesus went, people encountered the heart of the Father. The sick were healed, the broken were restored, the weak received strength, and impossible situations changed because Jesus was there. That same Jesus is victorious today. As you listen to Glory’s “YOU REIGN VICTORIOUS,” take some time to think about what Jesus has personally revealed to you about the love of God. Maybe you’ve experienced His healing, provision, strength, forgiveness, or simply His presence during a time when you desperately needed Him. What has Jesus shown you about the Father’s love through something He has done in your life?

Have you ever noticed how easy it is to spend more time talking about a problem than speaking God's Word over it? We can describe exactly how big the mountain is, how long it's been there, and everything we've tried to do about it. We can believe God is powerful and still find ourselves waiting for something to change before we begin exercising our faith. But Jesus gave us a different instruction. In Mark 11:23, He said, “Whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.” In THIS WEEK’S DEVOTIONAL, we're taking what we've been learning about faith and putting it into action. Jesus didn't tell us to spend our lives studying the mountain. He taught us to speak to it. Our confidence isn't in how many times we say something or how strongly we feel about it. Our confidence is in the Word of God and the One who promised. Here's what we want to challenge you to do this week. Find one Scripture that speaks to a mountain you're facing and begin using it in your daily life. Don't just read it once and move on. Spend time understanding what God has said, allow it to become established in your heart, and begin speaking in agreement with His Word. And remember what happened with the fig tree. Jesus spoke to it before the disciples could see the results. Don't allow the absence of immediate visible change to determine whether you continue believing. It's time to stop giving the mountain so much attention and start giving God's Word the authority it deserves.