Spirit and Life Devotional is a daily publication by Pastor Chinaemerem Ibezim, senior pastor of Able Ministers Chapel, a church based in Calabar, Cross River State.
“Then I set my face toward the Lord God to make request by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.” Daniel 9:3 NKJV
Supplication comes from the Latin verb supplicare, which means “to plead humbly.” Supplication is a form of prayer, wherein you humbly or earnestly ask God to do something, either for you who is doing the supplicating or on behalf of someone else.
Supplication is basically asking someone more powerful and with the capacity to help, in humility, to do something about your request. Like Mordecai’s message to Esther, for her to go in to the king to make supplication to him and plead before him for her people.
When supplicating there must be a specific request. It’s not a general prayer. There’s a cause; a reason; a burden; a need, for which you go to God in prayer. And you supplicate with humility, crying if necessary. Look at Jesus; the Bible says that “in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear.” (Hebrews 5:7)
Philippians 4:6 says, “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.”
This week your prayers will be answered in the name of Jesus!
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