How to Pray and claim God's Promises

God wants us to be victorious over sin and temtations. Anything that concerns us also concerns Him. He give us His power, sent from heaven in the form of promises that we can claim...

2 Peter 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

I learned the ABC of claiming God's promises from a wonderful Evangelist, Glen Coon, who always pointed us toward Lord Jesus Christ and the promises in His Word. We have been praying this way for nearly 30 years, we have kept prayer journals that help us to remember how God has answered our prayers. We believe that this is also important to help bujild our faith.
A - Ask
When we pray we should look for Bible examples thatt fit the situation that we are praying about and we should find God's promises assiciated with these examples, then "touch" thatt promise and talk to God in such a ways as to say something like... "Dear God, I am asking for this promise righ here, you have promised it, and I know that you do not lie.
Matthew 18:19 Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.
20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
Matthew 21:22 And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.

Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

B - Believe
We should tell God that we believe. Hearing ourselves say that we believe helps increase our believing. You may remember a Bible example of a man who came to Jesus and said, "I believe, help thou my unbelief"
Mark 11:24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

Luke 1:37 For with God nothing shall be impossible.

Luke 18:27 And he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.

C - Claim (to claim is to receive, like when you claim you baggage)

We can practice the faith of receiving by thanking God for keeping His promise even before we see the evidence of that answer. See below how Jesus thanked His father for resurecting Lazarus even before Lazarus came forth.
Matthew 21:22 And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
John 11:41 Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.
42 And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.
43 And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.

John 14:13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.

Acts 2:39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

Romans 4:21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

Romans 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

2 Corinthians 1:20 For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us

Ephesians 3:20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

Hebrews 10:23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
2 Peter 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

1 John 5:14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.