Prayer Inadequacy

Last week, I cracked open a new book, The Circle Maker by Mark Batterson. Honestly, I have been on a Batterson reading kick lately and just continued into this book, which came highly recommended from some fellow pastors. After only a few pages of reading, I quickly felt a HUGE personal inadequacy rising up from within me: Prayer!

Of the many different spiritual disciplines out there, prayer is by far the most important and difficult one for me. Don't get me wrong, I tend to spend my fair share of time in prayer, but my heart was all wrong.

As is human nature, we tend to pray for things that we believe God can actually help out with. Unfortunately, we also tend to put God inside the box of what we think is possible. The problem is that with God the impossible is possible. We tend to be timid when we come to God in prayer trying not to offend him or ask too much of him, but God is so much greater than that. The most difficult thing you could ever ask God for is ridiculously easy in His eyes.

The book of James tells us, "You do not have, because you do not ask God" (James 4:2b). Maybe, just maybe, our lives are not quite what we wish them to be because we haven't asked God believing that He can move heaven and earth for us if it is needed.

We can't let our box of what we believe is possible become the box we limit God to work with inside of our lives. Bold prayers honor God because they show a deep set belief that God is able to do absolutely anything. God also honors bold prayers because of that same belief.

What is it that you need God to do in your life? Boldly ask God to help!