Do Our Prayers Insult God?

“Bold prayers honor God, and God honors bold prayers. If your prayers aren’t impossible to you, they are insulting to God.”
– Mark Batterson

The definition of audacity is “to show a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks.” And this is exactly how Jesus instructs us to pray in the eleventh chapter of Luke’s Gospel. Right on the heals of his exemplary teaching to his disciples on prayer (what many of us refer to as the “Lord’s Prayer”), Jesus gives an illustration regarding the boldness with which we are to pray.

Jesus invites us—even instructs us—to boldly and tenaciously, “ask; seek; and knock.” He tells his disciples in Luke 11:9-10 to, “ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.”

It’s time to start asking our Heavenly Father for the manifestation of His Kingdom—on earth, as it is in heaven! We need to pray BIG prayers. Bold, audacious, prayers. The kind of prayers that change lives; cities; even nations!

You are empowered to pray prayers that are as big as the God we serve!

In Christ,
Pastor Ken