Pray-Storm
Amongst other ways to bringing bigger dreams to life is the need to pray-storm – This is a sequel to the post on A Bigger Dream (I’m getting very fond of writing 2 part posts these days lol).
Whenever you set goals, you’ve got to pray-storm. Pray-storming your goals is simply dumping it at the feet of God because there’s no other way of you achieving them. But if you’re gonna do that, you better ensure your goals and prayers honour God – and by honour I mean they are God-like goals. Don’t dump some uninspiring crap at his feet and expect him to be proud. God isn’t offended by your big dreams; as a matter of fact, he’s proud of them. I just think sometimes God is amazed at how small our plans are.
A low view of God is the cause of a hundred evils, but a high view of God is the solution to ten thousand temporal problems. Be bold enough to lay big prayers at his feet. Bold prayers honour God. God isn’t offended by your biggest dreams or boldest prayers. He’s offended by anything less.
“God isn’t offended by your big dreams; as a matter of fact, he’s proud of them.”
If your prayers aren’t impossible to you, they are insulting to God! Why? – Because they don’t require divine intervention. God is always looking for an opportunity to show off! If you can do it yourself then why ask him?!
Sometimes our prayers aren’t just boring to God, they’re uninspiring as well. Sometimes it’s like we’re trying to protect the image of God by not praying daring prayers. We act like praying daring prayers is risky, but it’s not nearly as risky as not daring to proclaim his promises upon our big dreams, because then, we forfeit the miracles God wants to perform.
The impossibility of our dreams will often draw us to a point of prayer. Oh how many times I’ve had to go for a prayer walk after re-reading my 2020 plans, and whenever I’m done, I re-read the plans and they look so small all of a sudden. Prayer will build your confidence in God. When you know you are praying the promises of God, you pray with holy confidence.
“Our biggest problem is our small view of God.”
One of the reasons we even have no desire to pray is because we’re still very much within our resources and capabilities. Trust me, when you’ve been searching for a job for over a year and have tried every means necessary, applied everywhere, been to a million networking meeting, re-written your CV a zillion times, and have lost every brain power necessary! Or when that business is your only source of income and you’ve publicised it everywhere but no customers are coming through and your finances are completely drained, Or when your sibling is facing a near-death illness and the doctors confess there’s nothing more they can do, You. Will. Pray.
Oh how I love God, because sometimes he puts us in situations that stretch our faith, and as our faith stretches, so does our dreams. And when God gets in the way, he doesn’t just do it to obstruct us, but to show us a better way. A bigger way. A bigger dream.
Pray-storming is the difference between the best you can do, and the best God can do. And when we leave him to do the best he can do with our dreams, he reminds us that he is able to do immeasurably more than we can ask or imagine.
