When you are praying to a big God, you make your prayers big. God-sized! Bold! Impossible! Ask the sort of things that only God can do. When I am praying with people and I hear a big, bold ask, I smile inside. I love it! I can only imagine what God thinks.
In Acts 4 we have a big ask. “While you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus.” Heal! Do the miraculous! Do the impossible!
Through my Christian faith, I have always been bold in my asking (because I never had any other sources to meet my needs) and God never failed. When my husband passed, I prayed and asked for humanly impossible things for me and my children. When the answers came, everybody around me including me knew it could only be God.
The request is not about self. Not about a person’s ego, a person’s pocketbook, a person’s comfort. It’s about Jesus and His kingdom, so there’s no need to hold back.
What God has done anywhere, God can do here. What God has done at any time, God can do now. What God has done with any other people, God can do with us.
God did it in Jerusalem. God did it in the first century. God did it with the early Christians. So why not ask? James 4:2 says, “You do not have, because you do not ask.”
What are you trusting God for that only God can do?
After the early Christians prayed there is a most interesting result. It is as if God expressed his deep pleasure with this united, faith-filled prayer.
And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness (Acts 4:31).
O Lord, may it happen here! May it happen now! May it happen with me.
Hallelujah!!
Ephesians 3:20 KJV
Now unto him that is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us
Comments