Prayer Secret #4 – Stating Your Case Before God

The first 3 prayer secrets talked about in the Prayer Section of our site all lay the groundwork for you to be able to properly approach God the Father with your specific prayer requests.

This particular prayer secret will now be the first of several that will get you into the real heart of directly praying to God the Father.

This particular prayer secret is coming off two very simple, but extremely powerful verses back in the Old Testament. When I first saw the three specific phrases that were in the middle of these two verses, I saw major prayer secret written all over it.

I believe that God the Father is giving all of us a major revelation with the three key phrases that He has in these two verses.

The three key phrases in these two verses are that we can approach God to “reason together” with Him, that we can “state our case” before Him, and that we can “contend together” with Him.

Here are the two specific verses giving us this very profound revelation from the Lord:

1. “Come now and let us reason together,” says the Lord, “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow …” (Isaiah 1:18)
2. “I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake: And I will not remember your sins. Put Me in remembrance; let us contend together; state your case, that you may be acquitted.” (Isaiah 43:25)

Though both of these verses are talking about being able to get forgiveness for our sins before the Lord – I believe that God the Father is giving all of us a major revelation with these three key phrases.

If we can approach God to state our cases before Him, and to try and reason and contend with Him on the matter of some our own personal sins – then I believe we can also take this same principle and apply it in our own personal prayer life with Him.

I believe God the Father is giving all of us an open invitation to enter into intimate dialogue with Him with the way that He has worded these two verses.

These three key phrases are telling us that God, at times, will want to hear what we have to think about a matter. He will want to hear our thoughts, and He will want us to fully express our feelings to Him about any specific matter or topic we may want to discuss with Him.

If God is all-knowing and already knows what we are going to think before we even think it – why would He even want us to go through the process of talking with Him and voicing our opinions about certain matters?

If He already knows what we will need before we will even need it – why would God even want us praying to Him in the first place?

Why doesn’t God just rely on His perfect knowledge on all things and just give us what we will need without us ever having to ask for it?

I believe the answer to this question is only one possible answer. And that one answer is because God wants more than anything else that we enter in and attempt to establish a one-on-one, intimate, personal relationship with Him.

Good, personal, free-flowing dialogue and conversation is the lifeblood of any good, personal relationship between two friends or two spouses.

Nothing will shut a marriage or a good friendship down faster than if one or both of the parties start to pull back on the good, personal conversations and communication they used to have.

Just as good, personal, free-flowing conversation is the lifeblood in our own personal human relationships – this same principle also applies and carries over to our own personal relationship with the Lord.

This is why God has these three specific phrases mentioned in the above two verses. God the Father is giving all of us a major clue and revelation in that He is open and willing to have personal, two-way dialogue and conversation with each one of us.

As I said numerous times in some of my other articles, God the Father wants you to be available 24/7 for intimate prayer and dialogue with Him – not just one time a week in a two hour Church service.

God wants you to be able to talk and dialogue with Him with the same amount of frequency and with the same amount intensity as you would with your best friend.

Except with God, He wants to become your best Friend, over and above any of other best friends you may have in this life.

God has to become #1 in your life. He will not settle for a #2 position next to your family and friends. The Bible tells us that God the Father has a consuming type of fire love for all of us, and He is very possessive and jealous over every single one of us with this kind of intense and passionate love.

With the above revelation telling us that we are free to boldly approach God’s throne and not to be afraid to state our cases and contentions before Him, and not to be afraid to try and reason with Him over certain issues and topics in our lives – what this now does is open up a whole new realm of possibilities in your prayer life with God the Father if you were never aware of this possibility before.

Once you have decided that you have a certain prayer request that you would like to present before God the Father – the first thing you should decide is how strong you need to go in stating your case before Him.

If your prayer request is something very simple, you do not need to get all worked up and give God 55 reasons as to why you would like Him to grant your prayer request. Just ask God once or twice and then have faith that He will answer the prayer request if it is in His will for your life.

However, where this principle will really come into play is when you have a request that is on the more medium to heavier side. A perfect example of something on the heavier side is when you may be praying for someone who may be dying of cancer. This principle will really come into play on this type of emergency situation.

What you do in this type of case, is that before you start shooting healing and battle verses through and start asking God to heal the one you are praying for – stop and form out your case as to why you would like God to heal this person. Stop and analyze the person’s life that you are praying for.

Form out your own personal arguments as to why God should consider healing and extending this person’s life.

What you are doing is exactly what the above two verses are trying to tell you to do – you are stating your case before God, and you are stating your reasons and contentions as to why He should consider healing the one you are praying for.

Below I will give you a personal testimony where this particular principle literally turned the tide on a healing case I was brought into by a woman I used to work with. Her 47 year old brother was dying of terminal Hodgkin’s disease. She had tried pleading the blood and asking God to heal her brother, but to no avail.

She then called me up and asked if I had any other suggestions that might get God to move on her behalf. I will give you what happened after she asked me, and then what God had me do in the battle prayer I ended up drawing up for her that literally turned the tide and got this man to be fully healed within a matter of 2 weeks.

Another analogy that I can give you that will show you how effective this kind of reasoning and contending can be with the Lord is with our criminal and civil court systems.

In many civil and criminal trials, cases are sometimes won on the closing arguments from either the prosecuting attorney or the defense attorney.

When each side gives their closing arguments before a jury, each attorney will properly summarize the facts of their case, and then they will try and tell the jury why they should find in their client’s favor.

What they are doing with the jury is stating their cases before them, and then trying to reason with them to try and get them to rule in their client’s favor. They are trying to persuade the jury that they have the stronger case, and they are giving them their exact reasons as to why they should see things from their point of view.

I believe we can sometimes take this same kind of approach in our prayer life with God the Father, depending on what we are asking Him for.

You obviously have to know when you can go into this kind of mode with God the Father. This is where the Holy Spirit will be helping you out. You will have to learn through trial and error when to take this kind of heavier approach with God the Father.

You will need to properly analyze each one of your prayer requests and decide if you need to go into this kind of heavier mode with the Lord.

If you have something that you are really wanting from the Lord, or if your prayer request is on that heavier side and you have a good release from the Holy Spirit to be approaching God with these kinds of arguments and contentions – then I would go ahead and give it a try and see what happens.

You will have nothing to lose in trying to incorporate this powerful, prayer principle into your personal prayer life with the Lord from time to time, depending on exactly what it is you are asking Him for. It just may be the key to help turn the tide to get more of your personal prayers answered with Him.

The reason for this is because you will start to see and feel that God really does care for you, and that He really does want to have personal, two-way dialogue and conversation with you.

You will learn that you can fully trust Him and that He will always treat you fairly, honestly, and justly.

Now I want to give you two good examples of where this particular prayer secret was put into actual operation – and in both of these cases this principle completely turned the tide and got God to move to answer the prayers that were being presented to Him.

Moses Goes Into the Gap

The first testimony is from the Story of Moses. Moses personally did one of the most amazing things in all of the Old Testament – he got God to change His mind from what His original intentions were going to be!

When Moses was up on Mount Sinai for 40 days and 40 nights with God the Father getting the 10 commandments and many of the other basic laws and commandments that God was wanting His people to live by, the children of Israel were down at the bottom of the mountain making a false idol by way of a golden calf.

When God sees this, He becomes so furious that He is literally wanting to consume all of the Israelites right there on the spot. However, when Moses sees how mad God is getting and what God is wanting to do to these people, Moses immediately steps into the gap for his people and begins trying to reason and plead with God as to why He should change His mind and not kill them.

Here is the verse that will tell you word-for-word exactly what Moses said to God to get Him to change His mind from what His original intentions were going to be:

Then Moses pleaded with the Lord his God, and said: “Lord, why does Your wrath burn hot against Your people whom You have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

Why should the Egyptians speak, and say, ‘He brought them out to harm them, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth?’

Turn from Your fierce wrath, and relent from this harm to Your people. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You swore by Your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven; and all this land that I have spoken of I give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.’ So the Lord relented from the harm which He said He would do to His people. (Exodus 32:11-14)

Notice what Moses does before the Lord. Instead of just asking the Lord to change His mind and not kill the Israelites for what they were doing at the bottom of that mountain – he goes one step further and starts to give God his specific reasons and contentions as to why He should not do it.

Notice this verse actually starts out with the words that Moses “pleaded with the Lord.” In other words, he was properly pleading his case before the Lord by giving Him his main reasons and contentions as to why He should consider changing His mind.

And then notice what happens next. Not only is God willing to hear what Moses has to say about the matter – but then He actually “relents,” changes His mind, and then answers Moses’ petition.

And all of this was accomplished because Moses properly stated his case before God and gave God several good reasons as to why He should not kill any of the Israelites.

This is a perfect and classic example of someone who put all of the above revelation in actual operation with the Lord and was thus able to save quite a few people’s lives that day as a result.

Again, you have to know when you can go into this kind of mode with God the Father. But just realize that this is a possible option, and that at times, it can be a very powerful and persuasive option with the Lord.

Personal Testimony

This next testimony where this principle literally turned the tide was the personal one I mentioned above. Here is what happened on this case.

A woman who I used to work with called me up one day and told me that she was facing an extreme emergency. Long story short, she had a 47 year old brother who was slowly dying of terminal Hodgkin’s disease.

When she called me, he had been in the hospital for about 3 weeks battling a severe case of pneumonia. His immune system was starting to weaken and the doctors were having no success with the antibiotics they were giving him. The one doctor told her that he had literally tried 50 different antibiotics, but none of them were working or turning the tide.

When she called me, she was frantic and did not know what else to do. I then asked her if she had been praying for him and she said she had. She said she had been pleading the blood and quoting some healing verses back to the Lord – but nothing was happening.

She then asked if I had any other possible suggestions, as she was afraid her brother was going to literally die right there in the hospital. I then told her I would pray about it and see if the Lord would give me any other suggestions that she could try in her own personal prayers to Him.

As soon as I got off the phone and asked the Lord if He had any other suggestions on how to handle this crisis, two things immediately popped into my mind’s eye from the Lord.

The first thing He wanted me to have her do was for her to go longer on her stating her case before Him as to why He should consider extending his life. In other words, He was wanting her specific reasons as to why He should want to heal him.

The second thing that came up loud and clear was that He was wanting more battle and healing verses put into the actual prayer itself.

This was a very serious life or death situation – and God was wanting some more meat put into the actual prayer itself. As a result, this battle prayer ended up coming in a little bit longer than some of the other ones that are listed in the Testimonies Section of our site.

After receiving the above advice from the Lord, I then called my friend back up and told her what I had picked up. She then asked me if I could draw up the battle prayer for her since she did not know how to really form out this kind of battle prayer with these kinds of healing and battle verses all incorporated into the battle prayer itself.

I then asked her to give me as much information as she could about her brother, so that I would know how to word out the first part of the prayer in the right way – since that would be the part of the prayer where she will be stating her case before God and giving Him her personal reasons as to why He should consider sparing and extending her brother’s life.

This compete testimony is listed in the Testimonies section of our site. The title of this testimony is “Battle Prayer Against Terminal Hodgkin’s Disease.” Just click on this blue link if you would like to see this prayer in its complete entirety.

Conclusion

I will leave you with one last thought on this particular prayer secret. Per another article we have in our site titled “God is No Respecter of Persons” – the Bible tells us that God the Father is no respecter of persons.

There are also several other verses from Scripture that tell us that God will be showing no partiality or favoritism towards any man or any woman that He has ever created. What this means is that we are all on an equal footing with the Lord and we all have an equal standing with Him.

If God is no respecter of any persons – then God will be giving you the same amount of time, care, and attention that He would be willing to give to anyone else – and this will also be including in your own personal prayer life with Him.

You thus have just as much of a chance to get some of your own personal prayers answered with Him as anyone else would.

So the next time you have a prayer request that may be on the more heavy side, or if it is something that you are really wanting and desiring from the Lord – try drawing up your own specific reasons and contentions as to why God should grant your request.

If you have to, do not be afraid to write all of it out on a piece of paper, and then read it back before the Lord if you think you won’t be able to recall all of the reasons once you start the prayer up with Him.

If God did it for Moses with the way Moses so passionately pleaded his case before Him with the rebellious children of Israel – then God can also do the same thing for you since the Bible tells us that He is no respecter of persons!

Once again, here are the three key phrases. Burn these three key phrases into your memory banks – as they could be the keys that could help turn the tide for you in getting God to answer more of your special prayer requests.

1. State your case 
2. Let us reason together
3. Let us contend together

Just as a good defense attorney can possibly win a case with a good, convincing, closing argument before a jury – so can you if you have good enough reasons and contentions to present before the Lord on whatever it is you are asking Him for.