Pray BIG

Over the past two weeks God has been challenging me to pray big. I often pray that I'll have a good day, have a restful sleep or that a headache will go away, but how often do I trust in God and tap into the power that is available to me?

“…I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever – the Spirit of truth.  The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him.  But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.  I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you”  “But I tell you the truth: it is for your good that I am going away.  Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you”- Jesus (John 14v15-18, 16v7).

Wait... did Jesus say that it was good for His disciples that He left? If the disciples would be better off with Jesus-in-the-flesh gone then what was coming must be pretty amazing. With the Holy Spirit coming we have power available to us just waiting for us to tap into it. The same power that raised Jesus from the dead is available to us.

Last week God put a huge burden on my heart for the lost. During my prayer time God started to put my classmates on my heart. In my classes there are roughly 28 people (4 of us whom are Christians) who will be with me for the next year and a half. I started to wonder who I should be praying for. Then it was put on my heart, "Pray big." I realized that I wasn't just supposed to pray for one or two people to come to know Christ but I was supposed to pray for ALL of my classmates come to Christ. It's prayer requests like this that don't make sense on a human level. How do I, as a single person, witness to 24 people over the next 18 months? That job is way to big for me. Praise the Lord for the Holy Spirit! As Mark 10v26 states, "With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God." I know that God loves each one of my classmates. I know that He desires a relationship with each one of them. I can't force that on any of them but I can be obedient to what He has called me to do. Right now He's calling me to pray big. Not for just one, two or five of them to come to Christ but for all 24 of them to know His incredible love.

What are some "BIG" things that you need to pray for?