04/15/2024
For anyone who feels stuck in a prayer rut, praying repetitive, predictable, and safe prayers.
We serve a God who can do more than we can ask or imagine. So it’s time to stop playing it safe. We weren’t created for a life of comfort. We are passionate and powerful, charged with changing the world in radical ways! I believe this plan will encourage you to break through the boundaries and will inspire you to pray dangerously and to live boldly.
Maybe you can relate. It’s not that you don’t believe in prayer. You do. But you’re stuck in a rut. You pray about the same struggles and the same requests. In the same way. At the same time. If you even try to pray at all. You probably know you should pray more. And with more passion. More faith. You want to talk to God and to listen to him, to share an intimate conversation like you would with your spouse or best friend. You really want to but aren’t sure how. So your prayers remain safe.
Flat. Dull. Predictable. Stale. Boring.
It's time for a change in your prayer life. For too long, You have been tolerated lackluster, faithless, and mostly empty prayers. You know that God wants more for you and you want to know him more intimately, despite your hesitation about what it would require of you.
When we’re seeking to communicate with God in real, vulnerable, and intimate prayer, he’s not wrapping us in a bubble of spiritual safety. Instead he bursts our what’s-in-it-for-me bubble and invites us to trust him when we don’t know what he will do next. Some days we feel blessed. Other days we face challenges, opposition, and persecution. But every moment of dangerous prayer will be filled with his presence.
Are you ready for more? Are you sick of playing it safe? Are you ready to pray daring, faith-filled, God-honoring, life-changing, world-transforming prayers?
But be warned. There will be bumps. When you start to pray things like “search me, break me, send me,” you may experience valleys. Attacks. Trials. Pain. Hardship. Discouragement. Even heartbreak. But there will also be the joy of faith, the marvel of miracles, the relief of surrender, and the pleasure of pleasing God.
It’s time to stop praying safe.
It’s time to start talking, really talking—and really listening—to God.
It’s time for dangerous prayers.
”I prayed for this child, and the Lord has granted me what I asked of him.“
1 Samuel 1:27 NIV
https://bible.com/bible/111/1sa.1.27.NIV
”“This, then, is how you should pray: “ ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. ’“
Matthew 6:9-13 NIV
https://bible.com/bible/111/mat.6.9-13.NIV
”Deliver me from my enemies, O God; be my fortress against those who are attacking me. Deliver me from evildoers and save me from those who are after my blood.“
Psalms 59:1-2 NIV
https://bible.com/bible/111/psa.59.1-2.NIV
”The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears them; he delivers them from all their troubles.“
Psalms 34:17 NIV
https://bible.com/bible/111/psa.34.17.NIV
The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears them; he delivers them from all their troubles.
