Interesting that it’s a noun. Remember 3rd grade? A noun is a person, place or thing. Yet the definition says it’s an action of asking or begging. Most of the time we’d think of prayer as an action. Us praying. Praying must be producing something. It produces a Prayer, of course! So is a Prayer,  something that can be held in your hand? Well maybe not our hands but there are places in the Bible that speak of the prayers of the saints being held in bowls. I’m not going to get into this being literal or figurative. There’s something spiritual going on here for sure. Either way it’s clear that somehow,  prayers become nouns. Back to 3rd grade,  they’re not a person they’re not a place, but prayers are  most certainly a thing. When we think of our words to God as not just vapors, fleeting thoughts and words, but something God can hold. It makes us, I believe, more aware of how  precious to the LORD our prayers are.

Now that we’ve established that prayers are nouns, lets look at the prayers that are Supplications. The first part of the definition is obvious and common. Asking. When we have prayer request, we don’t say “Would you supplicate for my mom?” No, we say, “Would you pray for my mom?” A request is supplication, even if we don’t use that word. The second part is, Earnestly. I find that interesting because earnestly means that your sincere, that you really mean what your saying. It seems obvious but then again, how many times have we prayed a prayer just because someone ask us to? Or because everyone else said “Amen” at the appropriate time, so we did too? Earnestly would mean you actually care about the outcome. Not just in the, “Sure I care.” but really truly care. We all battle with, being more concerned with things that don’t really matter. We all battle with self more than anything. We might too concerned our own wants or our own disappointments, to really have our hearts in it. We must, only by the power of the blood of Christ fight against this, to be earnest in your prayers.

 The 3rd word is Humbly. Here we are battling self again. Sometimes we even get angry with God, that He hasn’t done what we’ve been asking for. We feel we’re entitled to what we have coming. Well when we remember what we really had coming when Jesus stepped in and saved us filthy sinners, it kinda knocks us down a peg. Again this something we all struggle with. We must remind ourselves that God is the creator of all . He owes us, the creation nothing. Yet look at all He give us, including the right, yes he gives us the right, to come into His thrown. The thrown of what? Grace. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, Heb. 4:6. We only have the right to come to Him because of HIS grace. Grace is not what we deserve, grace is what He gives out of love.