A year ago, I never understood the power of a prayer.
I didn’t understand the power of prayer for healing, deliverance, and miracles.
I knew God was able…but I never put any more thought to it.
But it’s real. It is so real…and our God is SO good.
This month I have been reading Circle Maker by Mark Batterson, and it has absolutely changed the way I pray.
If you haven’t read it, I highly recommend it.
Circle Maker discusses the power of praying for something vs. praying through.
The key in praying through is interceding until God intervenes.
It’s always too soon to quit praying because you never know when the wall is about to fall.
We are always one prayer away from a miracle.
There are higher heights and deeper depths in prayer, and God wants to take you there.
A lot of people find discouragement in prayer when our prayers aren’t answered the way that we want…and sometimes, when God has yet to answer our prayers we try to answer them for him. The lesson learned through this is no doesn’t always mean no, no sometimes means not yet…or no means no because God has a far greater plan than we could ever imagine.
If you take one thing away from reading this post, I hope it’s this: Never underestimate the power of a single prayer. With God, there is no precedent. With God, all things are possible.
When we pray it should never be an issue of “can He?”…but more of “will He?”
We don’t know if He will, but we know that He can…and with that we should be praying with holy confidence.
God is able.
I have tried my best to stay up with current affairs while on the race, and I have been rocked pretty hard by the tragedies happening all over the world. Within the past week or so I have especially been rocked by the stories of ISIS terrorizing Christian and Yazidis groups in Iraq and Syria. Gruesome acts of murder, rape, and terror…all because they don’t renounce their faith. Thinking about it makes me speechless, I just can’t believe there is so much hate, so much power within ISIS, and most of us sit behind our computer screens feeling absolutely helpless.
We read these stories, see pictures, and are left heartbroken.
But here’s the thing:
We are far from helpless.
We have the power of prayer, and our God is greater.
We need to pray and intercede for these people.
We need to circle this entire situation in our prayers and march around it like Jericho.
We need to pray this through.
This Friday August 15 I invite you to join the World Race community (multiple squads all over the world, alumni, and people in our home office in Georgia) as we spend the entire day fasting and in prayer.
The fast will go from 12 am eastern time on the 15th and will last 24 hours.
I encourage you to join us in fasting for the entire day, or at least one meal as we cover this entire day in prayer for the oppressed in Iraq and Syria.
