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January 29 - February 2, 2023
But with each circle, their stride grew longer and stronger.
With each circle, a holy confidence was
you keep circling the promise, God will ultimately deliver on it.
It challenges us to confidently circle the promises God has given to us.
What promise are you praying around? What miracle are you marching around? What dream does your life revolve around?
Drawing prayer circles starts with identifying your Jericho. You’ve got to define the promises God wants you to stake claim to, the miracles God wants you to believe for, and the dreams God wants you to pursue. Then you need to keep circling until God gives you what He wants and He wills.
That’s th...
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We’ve never circled any of God’s promises. We’ve never written down a list of life goals.
Instead of drawing circles, we draw blanks.
Jesus forced them to define exactly what they wanted from Him.
Jesus made them verbalize their desire. He made them spell it out, but it wasn’t because Jesus didn’t know what they wanted; He wanted to make sure they knew what they wanted. And that is where drawing prayer circles begins: knowing what to circle.
we’re as blind spiritually as these blind men were physically.
idea what we want God to do for us. And that’s why our prayers aren’t just boring to us; they are uninspiring to God.
If faith is being sure of what we hope for, then being unsure of what we hope for is the antithesis of faith, isn’t it? Well-developed
developed faith results in well-defined prayers, and well-defined prayers resu...
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Don’t just read the Bible. Start circling the promises. Don’t just make a wish. Write down a list of God-glorifying life goals. Don’t just pray. Keep a prayer journal. Define your dream. Claim your promise. Spell your miracle.
“God does not answer vague prayers.” When I read that statement, I was immediately convicted by how vague my prayers were.
Some of them were so vague that there was no way of knowing whether God had answered them or not.
So not every prayer will be answered the way we script it, but I’m convinced of this: The miracles that have happened would not have happened if I hadn’t drawn a circle around them in the first place.
The more faith you have, the more specific your prayers will be. And the more specific your prayers are, the more glory God receives.
If our prayers aren’t specific, however, God gets robbed of the glory that He deserves because we second-guess whether or not He actually answered them. We never know if the answers were the result of specific prayer or general coincidences that would have happened anyway.
When you spell out your prayers with specificity, it will eventually spell God’s glory.
Our eternal priorities get subjugated to our temporal responsibilities. And we pawn our God-given dream for the American dream. So instead of circling Jericho, we end up wandering in the wilderness for forty years.
It’s not about being in the right place at the right time; it’s about being the right person, even if you find yourself in the wrong circumstances. Success has nothing to do with how gifted or how resourced you are; it has everything to do with glorifying God
in any and every situation by making the most of it.
I want to be famous in my home.
It helps you circle the miracle. It helps you see all the way around the situation.
If you can, go someplace that inspires you. A change in scenery often translates into a change of perspective. A change in routine often results in revelation. In formulaic terms, change of pace + change of place = change of perspective.
When I retrace the miracles in my own life, I’m amazed at how many of them happened outside the city walls. They didn’t happen during a planning meeting; they happened during a prayer meeting. It wasn’t problem solving that won the day; it was prayer solving.
Her portfolio was prayer, but she didn’t just pray; she prayed through.
Mother Dabney would not be denied. She was a circle maker, and circle makers have a sanctified stubborn streak.
Mother Dabney was more comfortable in the presence of God than the presence of people.
And the more she prayed through, the more God came through.
In the grand scheme of God’s story, there is a footnote behind every headline. The footnote is prayer. And if you focus on the footnotes, God will write the headlines. It’s your prayers that change the eternal plotline. Just like Honi’s prayer that saved a generation, your prayers can change the course of His-story.
Most of us don’t get what we want because we quit circling.
We give up too easily. We give up too soon. We quit praying right before the miracle happens.
Like Honi, you refuse to move from the circle until God moves. You intercede until God intervenes.
praying through won’t take no for an answer.
You are always only one prayer away from a miracle.
Praying through is all about intensity. It’s not quantitative; it’s qualitative.
Praying through doesn’t just bend God’s ear; it touches the heart of your heavenly Father.
When was the last time you found yourself flat on your face before the Almighty? When was the last time you cut off your circulation kneeling before the Lord? When was the last time you pulled an allnighter in prayer?
But if you want God to do something new in your life, you can’t do the same old thing.
But we should praise God for disappointment because it drives us to our knees. Disappointment is like dream defibrillation. If we respond to it the right way, disappointment can actually restore our prayer rhythm and resurrect our dreams.
We may be out of luck, but we’re not out of prayer.
Sometimes faith seems like a denial of reality, but that’s because we’re holding on to a reality that is more real than the reality we can perceive with our five senses.
We prayed through, and God came through.
The battle was won before the battle even began. God had already given them the city. All they had to do was circle it.
“Stop praying for it and start praising me for it.” True
faith doesn’t just celebrate ex post facto, after the miracle has already happened; true faith celebrates before the miracle happens, as if the miracle has already happened, because you know that you know that God is going to deliver on His promise.
