God can do far more than we can even think to ask Him to do. Sometimes our prayers don’t reflect the kind of God to whom we are praying. We just pray and ask God to help us have a good day, but this is the God who parted the Red Sea, rose again from the dead, and spoke the stars into existence. Don’t you think we could pray for more? We could pray “dangerous prayers” – asking God for God-sized things such as salvation for all our lost friends at school, for healing, for God to turn our lives upside-down and send us across the world to do missions. We should try praying for things that require courage!

God doesn’t just leave us to figure out how to pray and how to find His will on our own. The “power at work within us” is the Holy Spirit (3:20). When we pray, we need to ask the Holy Spirit to help us know what to pray for and to give us the strength to do what God has called us to do. Finally, we need to remember that all the glory goes to God.

What have you been afraid to pray for? How can you challenge yourself to pray dangerously this week?