Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15. The title of our post today is

Praying the Promise. It is exciting to change the world as part of God's international ecclesia.

His praying church is growing and maturing. A simple but powerful insight regarding prayer

is what some call praying the promises. One of the most profound promises in scripture we can

pray and act on is Psalm 2 verses 1 through 9. It reads,

Why do the nations rage and the people plot a vain thing? The kings of the earth

set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and his anointed, Christ, the Messiah,

saying, let us break their bonds and pieces and cast away their cords from us.

He who sits in the heavens shall laugh.

The Lord will hold them in derision.

Then he shall speak to them in his wrath and distress them in his deep displeasure.

I have set my king on my holy hill of Zion.

I will declare the decree, he says.

The Lord has said to me, you are my son. Today, I have begotten you.

Ask of me, and I'll give you the nations for your inheritance and the ends of the earth for

your possession. You'll break them with a rile of iron, dash them to pieces like a potter's vessel.

Think about the amazing phenomenon occurring in this passage.

Psalm 2 allows us to enter a conversation between the father and his beloved son, Jesus, in which Yahweh makes him an eternal

promise. You are my son, ask of me, and I'll give you the nations for your inheritance

and the ends of the earth for your possession.

He lets us in on the conversation.

The Psalm tells us Jesus was given a great promise for which he had to ask,

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