December 01,2025

PRAYER AND SUPPLICATION

PSALMS 6:9

 The Lord has heard my supplication;

 The Lord will receive my prayer.

Even today, God is talking as a prophetical promise that He will hear our supplications and He will receive our prayer.

Psalms 6:9

 The Lord has heard my supplication;

 The Lord will receive my prayer.

Today we are going to meditate on this topic “Prayer and Supplication”. Here the psalmist is talking about the experience of how the Lord is answering two things: prayer and supplication.

Since this verse said these two words, prayer and supplication, I was looking into its difference. Because the verse doesn’t say that, “The Lord has heard my prayers; the Lord will receive my prayers,” but it says, “The Lord has heard my supplication; The Lord will receive my prayer.” Prayer means talking or communicating with God. The connection with God is daily improved by prayers. Supplication is also a kind of prayer, but here we are humbly requesting a favor and help from God.

When we talk with our family and friends, we don’t always ask something from them. But there are some, if they call you, you will know that they are going to ask you something. Apart from that, we talk with our family and friends; sometimes we ask them for a favor. Like that, we have the experience of daily talking to God and communicating with Him through prayer. But sometimes we request for a favor to Him and to that also He is able to answer. David clearly says that “The Lord has heard my supplications…”

When you are asking God for help or favor, He is not a God who shuts His ears; He hears it and answers it. In prayer you ask for things, He not only receives the prayer but also He accepts it.

 A big complaint in marriages and in families is whenever a person communicates, the other person is not responding to it. They would say, “I’m talking very well, but when I talk, the other person sleeps,” and sometimes the person who is talking themselves will sleep while they talk. But love is when we accept the communication from the other person. Likewise, in prayer we are talking and communicating with God, and He receives our prayer and He loves us. At the same time, when we come to Him with a need, He accepts it and gives it according to our supplications.

Many say Psalms chapter 6 is where David is going through a very agonizing situation and he prays amidst this distress, but David receives a clear answer to his prayers. This psalm is a clear answer to the prayer that David made when he was going through a distress time. Sometimes we have a doubt whether the Lord is answering our prayer or not, but we believe that when we hold on to this verse and pray, the Lord will clearly answer our prayers. This is a prayer of faith that is made in the distress time.

Philippians 4:6

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;

It is important to bring our prayer and supplication before God. We are going to give thanks to God even before we bring our prayer and supplication to Him.

 Our Pastor was saying about how we need to give thanks to our God in the thanksgiving prayer; we should not give thanks after things happen but in faith we need to give thanks to our God before the things happen. We see a confirmation here in this verse that, “The Lord has heard my supplication; The Lord will receive my prayer.” Even in the beginning of this month, we are very firmly declaring that the Lord will accept my prayers.

 We are going to meditate on a few things on how God hears and receives our prayers and supplications:

HEARS FROM HEAVEN

I Kings 8:45

 Then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

Our God hears our prayers and supplications from heaven and from there He answers us.

I Kings 8:22

 Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven;

In I Kings chapter 8 from verse 22, we see the prayers of Solomon and particularly his prayer during the dedication of the temple of God. In his prayer, he beautifully explains about the characteristics of God and the nature of how our God hears our prayer. While explaining this, Solomon mentions more than three times that God is hearing our prayer from heaven.

Isaiah 66:1

“...Heaven is My throne,

 And earth is My footstool.”

Because Solomon is a king, the things in his mind might be a little different. Solomon as a king points out how God operates His authority as a king. I was researching on when are the times kings sit on the throne? Even if we don’t do anything, still we fight for that one seat or a chair that we usually sit. But it’s not the same for a king because whenever a king sits on his throne, he has a purpose: that is for judging, proclaiming, ceremonies, national decisions, and to greet dignitaries from other places. And I believe for this reason Solomon has said that God answers us from His throne. That means God is ready to make commands and to take important decisions when we raise our supplications to Him.

As I was an international student studying my Bible college, I had a lot of formalities to do very often. Once, when I had to renew my passport, I had all my documents, but that’s when I found out that only when I take the sign from the DSO I can renew my passport. I saw the DSO walking towards his office and he was speaking to all the students there, and I was here in a hurry to get a sign. When he came near me and I was explaining my situation to him, the DSO answered, “I cannot do anything right now.” As I was confused hearing that, the DSO clearly explained that “I can help you, but not now. Only when I sit on my table, and that’s where I have my seal, and after that it will be done in five seconds.” I thought to get it done on the road so that it will be done quickly but he said it can be done only when he sits on his table which has the important thing in it, that is the “seal.”

 Why is our God hearing our prayers from heaven? Our God is sitting on the throne, a place of authority, and with authority He will be answering our prayers.

In the last part of this verse it says, “and He maintains our cause.” He answers our prayer not as a lamb but as a king sitting on His throne and ruling the whole earth.

HIS EYES ARE OPEN

I Kings 8:52

 “That Your eyes may be open to the supplication of Your servant and the supplication of Your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they call to You.”

In this verse, we see the continuation of Solomon’s prayer as how the Lord answers our prayers and supplications. Our God doesn’t answer our prayers for the sake of answering it, but when His eyes are open He answers carefully. He answers our prayers not to fulfill His duties but with care He answers our prayers.

II Chronicles 7:15

“ Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to prayer made in this place.”

THERE ARE TWO MEANINGS FOR “HIS EYES WILL BE OPEN AND HIS EARS ARE ATTENTIVE”:

1. GOD SEES EVERYTHING

As we are humans, whatever we reveal the other person knows about it, and whatever we hide in our life is not revealed to the other person. But our God’s eyes are open and He watches everything in our life.

A few weeks back, a sister came to me and pastor amma to pray. As she was new to our church I asked her, “Is there anything specific for us to pray for you?” For that she said, “No, no pastor, everything is fine; you do a small prayer for me.” When I started to pray for the blessing of her life, right after three seconds of prayer, tears came running from her eyes; the sister said the Lord revealed few things from my life through you in prayer and the words from the Lord spoke to me. The Lord didn’t just answer to the prayers of her words but the Lord looked into her heart and answered the deep prayers that are hidden in her heart. At the same time, I also opened my eyes in between the prayer; that is when I knew that God is doing something else in her.

2. GOD SEES WHAT WE CANNOT SEE

The biggest example of God seeing what we cannot see is that God answers the prayers that we say out in words and He also answers the prayers that are hidden in our hearts. Because our God honors our heart’s desire.

Psalms 33:18–19

“Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him…”

How do we have the experience of God’s eyes on us? Before He miraculously answers our prayer, it is very important for us to have the fear of God. The man who fears God, His eyes are on him, and for his supplication His eyes will always be opened.

DELIVERS ACCORDING TO HIS WORD

Psalms 119:170

“Let my supplication come before You;

Deliver me according to Your word.”

Not by our words, not by someone else’s words, but according to His own words He’ll deliver us. Psalms 119 centers on God’s word; all the verses in Psalms 119 have at least one word which will say God’s word. By God’s commandments, God’s laws, and by God’s statutes, each and every word the psalmist gave importance to God’s word. Our God doesn’t deliver us by our supplications, but by His word He delivers us.

Many maths teachers have this question: “You have brought this answer, but how did you have the answer by using this method? You should use my method in bringing the answer.” Many times, we also ask God to fulfill things according to our method. And that is why our prayers are much more specific and deeper.

A pastor prayed for me before I started my journey for my college. He prayed, “Lord, even today, Pastor Benny is going to travel in the Lufthansa flight 48 by 8:30 and he is going to travel for eight hours; there will be time change when he reaches his destination and he reaches his destination by 10. Lord, protect him.” There is nothing wrong in giving so much details in prayer, but He will deliver according to His word. It’s okay to give details in prayer, but I have seen many scold and threaten God in prayer.

I was asking a brother, “How is this thing going?” The brother replied, “I have given three days’ time to God; let’s see what is going to happen.”

Threatening God with “I don’t eat until this thing happens” is not fasting. Fasting is not about protesting against God’s will, but fasting is completely surrendering to the will of God.

WHY HE DELIVERS ACCORDING TO HIS WORD:

1 GOD RESCUES IN HIS TIMING BUT ACCORDING TO HIS WORD

 He saves us in the way He promised, not randomly but faithfully.

2 GOD’S PROMISES ARE TRUSTWORTHY

 We can hold on to His promises because if God said it, He will do it; His character guarantees it.

3 GOD DELIVERS BASED ON TRUTH, NOT FEELINGS

 God knows the truth of our situation, so He delivers by the truth and not by our feelings because our feelings keep changing. You might have seen it with your friends, one day they might be fighting and the next day they might be hugging each other. Our feelings keep changing, so our God delivers according to His word.

Hebrews 13:8

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Since He is an unchanging God, His words are also unchanging yesterday, today, and forever.

4 GOD WORKS IN ALIGNMENT WITH SCRIPTURE

 How will you know that it is a work of God? All His works align with His word. In our life He is faithful to answer our prayers and deliver according to His word. Yesterday, The pastor said that in our Christian life, to gain victory over difficult times and problems, we have the word of God as our great weapon. For God to hear our supplication and to answer our prayers, our life should be filled with the word of God.

                                                                                                   -Pastor. Benny visuvasam

                                                                                                      Faith  ACA Pallavaram

                                                                                                                    Pastor Benny Visuvasam

 

                                                                                                                         Faith ACA Pallavaram

 

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