Praying for Your Elephant: Boldly Approaching Jesus with Radical and Audacious Prayer

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“prayer is just as much about imagination as it is actually fashioning those imaginations into concrete prayer requests.” (source)

“Your individual view on the spacious or confined margins of prayer will largely dictate how and what you pray for as well as your prayers’ effectiveness. The boundaries of our personal prayer lives often have less to do with biblical restrictions and more to do with the limitations we place on them. Limitations such as guilt, or perhaps dwelling on the kinds of prayers we feel God is interested in answering, often shackle our prayers or cause us to abandon praying altogether.” (source)

“Prayer is immortal. It has no boundaries and no marker lines. Prayer holds ultimate potential. The best the Devil can hope for is that you don’t pray. And much of his strategy is to discourage you from praying at all, as a prayer never prayed has zero chance of ever being answered.” (source)

“What would it look like if you pulled up the boundaries of your prayer life and set them aside? What if your prayer life had no bounds? What if it was limitless? Eternal? What if you let God be the judge of what He will accomplish through your prayers rather than allowing the limitations of your mind and flesh to shepherd your prayers? What if your responsibility was simply prayer creation and you left God to the editorial and distribution responsibilities?” (source)

“Prayer is more than just words. Prayer is a heart and soul groaning, not an exercise in vocabulary for the purpose of impressing others.” (source)