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January 29 - February 2, 2023
Are you willing to be perplexed? If you are, then God can and will amaze you!
by definition, there is nothing God cannot do. Yet many of us pray as if our problems are bigger than God.
God is infinitely bigger than your biggest problem or biggest dream.
And while we’re on the topic, His grace is infinitely bigger th...
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The size of prayers depends on the size of our God. And if God knows no limits, then neither should our prayers.
He has no beginning and no end. To the infinite, all finites are equal.
Even our hardest prayers are easy for the Omnipotent One to answer because there is no degree of difficulty.
And because you know He can, you can pray with holy confidence.
Once you experience a miracle, there is no turning back. It is difficult to doubt God.
is. Even the most brilliant among us underestimate God by 15.5 billion light-years. God is able to do 15.5 billion light-years beyond what you can ask or imagine.
But it doesn’t matter if you qualify for the loan, qualify for the job, or qualify for the program. If God has called you, you’re qualified.
The issue is never, “Are you qualified?” The issue is always, “Are you called?”
you want to keep growing spiritually, you need to keep stretching. How? By going after dreams that are bigger than you are.
Bill doubted himself, but he didn’t doubt God. He circled that dream for more than a decade.
With each circle, it was like God got bigger and bigger. With each circle, self-doubt shrunk and a holy confidence grew. With each circle, a prayer battle was won.
“I went from walking into a shower feeling like I was carrying five hundred pounds to leaving that shower feeling as though I had the strength to lift five hundred pounds.” Sometimes the power of prayer is
After a decade of divine delays and detours, Bill got the dream job he had circled in prayer for more than a decade.
And if you pray through, God will come through. But it will be God’s will, God’s way.
A heavyweight prayer bout with God Almighty can be excruciating and exhausting, but that is how the greatest prayer victories are won.
Praying hard is two-dimensional: praying like it depends on God, and working like it depends on you. It’s praying until God answers, no matter how long it takes. It’s doing whatever it takes to show God you’re serious.
There comes a moment when you need to defy protocol, drop to your knees, and pray for the impossible. There comes a moment when you need to muster every ounce of faith you have and call down rain from heaven. For the persistent
And if you don’t pray like it depends on God, the biggest miracles and best promises will remain out of your prayer reach.
God will honor your bold prayers because your bold prayers honor God.
If He did, Jesus would have chosen the Pharisees as His disciples. But that isn’t who Jesus honored.
People took desperate measures to get to God, and God honored them for it. Nothing has changed. God is still honoring spiritual desperadoes who crash parties and climb trees. God is still honoring those who defy protocol with their bold prayers. God is still honoring those who pray with audacity and tenacity.
God already knows the last punctuation mark before we pronounce the first syllable.
The viability of our prayers has more to do with intensity than vocabulary.
Long before you woke up this morning and long after you go to sleep tonight, the Spirit of God was circling you with songs of deliverance.
He has been circling you since the day you were conceived, and He’ll circle you until the day you die. He is praying hard for you with ultrasonic groans that cannot be formulated into words, and those unutterable intercessions should fill you with an unspeakable confidence.
God is for you in the most active sense imaginable. The Holy Spirit is praying hard for you. And supernatural synchronicities begin to happen wh...
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Success is a derivative of persistence.
It is a habit to be cultivated.
It is a discipline to be developed. It is a skill to be practiced. And while I don’t want to reduce praying hard to time logged, if you want to achieve mastery, it might take ten thousand hours.
Elijah held his holy ground. He stood on the promise God had given him. I think Elijah would have prayed ten thousand times if that is what it took, but between the sixth and seventh prayer, there was a subtle shift in atmospheric pressure.
The only way you can fail is if you stop praying. Prayer is a no-lose proposition.
“Blessed is the one who is not offended by me.”
100 percent of the prayers I don’t pray won’t get answered.
“Never put a comma where God puts a period, and never put a period where God puts a comma.”
God said it, I’ve circled it, and that settles it.
In much the same way, all of God’s promises have been transferred to us via Jesus Christ.
So while we have to be careful not to blindly claim promises that don’t belong to us, our greatest challenge is that we don’t circle the promises we could or should circle.
One of the primary reasons we don’t pray through is because we run out of things to say. Our lack of persistence is really a lack of conversation pieces.
Pray through the Bible.
Prayer was never meant to be a monologue; it was meant to be a dialogue. Think of Scripture as God’s part of the script; prayer is our part. Scripture is God’s way of initiating a conversation; prayer is our response. The paradigm shift happens when you realize that the Bible wasn’t meant to be read through; the Bible was meant to be prayed through.
And if you pray through it, you’ll never run out of thi...
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The Bible is a promise book and a prayer book. And while reading is reactive, prayer is proactive. Reading is the way you get through the Bible; prayer is the way you get the Bible through you. As you pray, the ...
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One day it dawned on me that coffeehouses are postmodern wells. The only difference is that we draw shots of espresso instead of drawing water out of a well.
And to top it off, every penny of our six-digit net profit goes to local community projects and our humanitarian efforts in other countries.
Do you have a favorite place to pray? A place where you get better reception? A place where your mind is more focused? A place where you have more faith?
I love praying on top of the coffeehouse because I feel like I’m praying on top of a miracle. It’s hard not to pray with faith when you’re praying in a place where God has already done a miracle.
