Would you be a prayer warrior who storms Heaven’s gates with bold acts and petitions? Then learn to ask for the ridiculous, to pray for what the world calls foolishness; believe when you pray! Don’t limit your prayers to the everyday, commonplace lists that many call prayer. Refuse to not believe! Our God is not a God of just enough, of easy answers and quiet resolutions; He is a God of “exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask, or think...” (Ephesians 3:20); ask of Him big things, impossible things, things worthy of His sovereign nature, and see His Glory manifest. “Did I not say to you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God? (John 11:40) Until we trust Him more than we are afraid of failing we will see precious little fruit.
When the lame man asked Peter and John for alms, Peter took him by the hand and lifted him up! (Acts 3:6-7) He didn’t just say ‘Lord if it be thy will please heal this man’(Peter already knew that it was God’s will because he was filled with the Holy Spirit!), Peter wasn’t afraid to fail, he wasn’t afraid of being embarrassed if the lame man didn’t walk. Because Peter believed, he, John, and the lame man saw the glory of God manifested as healing for the cripple! What about in Mark 2:4 when the paralytic was lowered through the roof to be healed by Jesus? Talk about foolishness, to tear a hole in the roof of a house other than your own in order to lower a paralytic down so that he could be healed! Not afraid to ask the ridiculous, no fear of the certain reprisal to come, just faith, faith that was so strong that it eclipsed mere belief and became reality! The faith that empowers these impossible acts is the stuff of miracles; ‘but Bro. Bobby, surely you don’t mean that we are to pray for those things that our experiences and common sense tell us are impossible’? That is exactly what I do mean, even if it appears that there is no possibility that human effort can succeed, pray and believe for the answer.
We must take authority over the evil that threatens our world on several fronts; we must say to these storms, “Peace, Be Still! In Jesus Name!” Dare to be bold, refuse to doubt, pray, and see God’s glory unfold! n
