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The Prayer God Will Always Answer

Louie Giglio
5 Days
Introduction
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Day 2
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Day 4
Day 5

Asking for the Impossible

Day 1

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Why should we pray if God is going to do as He pleases and no plan of His can be thwarted?

Summary

When it comes to our prayer lives, we are living in a realm full of tension. God knows everything. He does whatever He pleases, His plans cannot be thwarted, and we know that He can move the mountains. How do we reconcile our knowledge of His power with the fact that God calls us to be people of bold prayers?

Why should we pray? Because God is inviting us to capture the attention of Heaven, to believe Him for the miraculous, and to ask Him for the impossible.

Luke 7:1-10 tells the story of a centurion who had a servant who was sick. Because this man had shown favor to the Jewish community, the elders asked Jesus to heal the centurion’s servant. But while Jesus was on His way to do so, the centurion sent a messenger who conveyed that the centurion did not feel as though he was worthy enough even to have Jesus enter his home. Instead, the man confessed his belief that even if Jesus spoke a word of healing miles away from the servant, that servant would be saved. Jesus was amazed by his faith, exclaiming that he had not seen faith like this, even in Israel.

Our God loves the posture of a heart of humility.

We should marvel at the opportunity to amaze Jesus with our faith, but we should do so from a posture of humility. The centurion understood this truth: there is one who sits on the Throne of authority, God, the Father. Jesus is under that authority, working out His Father's will, and therefore shares that authority. The is the faith that gave birth to the Centurion's confession that all Jesus has to do is speak, and things would change. This correctly calibrated perspective of the authority of Jesus amazed The Savior.

What's Next?

Read through Luke 7:1-10 again and reflect on the story. Then take stock of your prayer life right now and answer a few questions:

  1. How do you approach God when you pray? Do you have a right-sized amount of humility?
  2. What is holding you back from praying bold, even impossible-seeming prayers?

Scripture References

23Jesus replied,
“The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
24
Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.
25
Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
26
Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.
27
“Now my soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour.
28
Father, glorify your name!”

Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it, and will glorify it again.” 29The crowd that was there and heard it said it had thundered; others said an angel had spoken to him.

29Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness.
41He took her by the hand and said to her,
“Talitha koum!”
(which means
“Little girl, I say to you, get up!”
).
42Immediately the girl stood up and began to walk around (she was twelve years old). At this they were completely astonished.
54But he took her by the hand and said,
“My child, get up!”
55Her spirit returned, and at once she stood up. Then Jesus told them to give her something to eat.
6Then I saw a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain, standing at the center of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders. The Lamb had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.
7He went and took the scroll from the right hand of him who sat on the throne.
8And when he had taken it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of God’s people.
9And they sang a new song, saying:

“You are worthy to take the scroll

and to open its seals,

because you were slain,

and with your blood you purchased for God

persons from every tribe and language and people and nation.

Louie Giglio
Louie Giglio
Louie Giglio is the Visionary Architect and Director of the Passion Movement, comprised of Passion Conferences, Passion City Church, Passion Publishing and sixstepsrecords, and the founder of Passion Institute.