Dangerous Prayers: Because Following Jesus Was Never Meant to Be Safe

by Craig Groeschel

There is nothing better to fuel your prayer life than a deep appreciation for God’s grace. Imagine God wiping away all your lies. Healing your hatred. Cleansing your sexual sin. Embrace it. If you are “in Christ,” your self-centered decisions are forgiven. Your anger—forgiven. Hatred—forgiven. Bitterness—forgiven. Boasting—forgiven. Jealousy—forgiven. Envy—forgiven. All your sins, your evil thoughts, your greed, your hypocrisy, your filthy gossip, your secret lusts, your pride, your ingratitude, your materialism, your unbelief—all forgiven and forgotten by the grace of our good God. Later in his life, Isaiah would add color to God’s grace by quoting the one who forgave him, writing, “I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more” (Isa. 43:25). When you cry out to God for forgiveness, he doesn’t remember your sins. They are gone. Forgiven. Washed away. And forgotten.