BIG & BOLD

“Maybe our normal is so subnormal that normal seems abnormal.  Maybe we need a new normal.  Bold prayers and big dreams are normal.  Anything less is subnormal.  And when bold prayers become the norm, so do the miraculous breakthrough that follow.”  Draw The Circle- Mark Batterson

I love my daily reading from Draw the Circle.  Todays reading was exactly what some of us have been discussing. 

When we pray, we pray for peace and comfort.  We pray for Gods will.  All this is great BUT and that is a big but, we need to pray BIG BOLD PRAYERS, PRAYERS FOR MIRACLES!

Some may think this is crazy, however miracles happened all the time in the Bible.  Jesus feed 5000, He walked on water, He healed the sick, He enabled the blind to see, He drove out evil, He calmed the storm, and much more. 

Can it happen today?  Of course it can. 

God is real.  He is powerful.  He can break through our natural world into the supernatural.  The problem is we don’t think we see many miracles today. 

In the article A NEW AGE OF MIRACLES Tim Stafford writes these words:

Jesus' feeding of the 5,000 was in one sense far less significant than an event no one comments on at all: the wheat harvest. It strains belief that a desiccated kernel of wheat can be transformed into a wheat plant. Year after year it happens in thousands of locations around the world. It feeds the world by the power of God, but nobody marvels.

Let Jesus multiply a lunch, once, for a crowd of a few thousand, and we do wonder. Not that it is more significant or God-empowered than the wheat crop. Only that it is a rarity we never see. It is a sign—that Jesus, through whom wheat was made, and who sustains and empowers its growth—is on the move in an unusual way: his kingdom, long promised, is breaking in.

So true.  Even though my husband is a farmer I never thought about farming in this way.  Miracles happen all the time we just need to change the way we look at things.  We need a new perspective. 

Our church is opening its doors during lent once a week for prayer.  From 5:30- 7:30 every Tuesday we are praying that we have our pews filled with people that believe in God’s miracles. 

Miracles do happen if we simply open our eyes and see them!

Pray big, pray bold, pray for miracles.

Psalm 77:14New International Version (NIV)

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You are the God who performs miracles;

    you display your power among the peoples.