How to build a foundation for audacious/sun stand still kind of prayer

I love seeing God do miracles. Would you like to see more of them in your life? Recently I heard a message on the great account in Joshua chapter 10 where Joshua prayed and the sun stood still. My friend who was speaking shared that one of the reasons that Joshua could pray in confidence for such a huge prayer was a promise of victory God had given before the battle.

As Mark Batterson says, “We underestimate how much spiritual authority we have when we pray in accordance with the will of God.” I am in the very early stages of writing a book on spiritual warfare, but already one of my favorite verses is 1 Timothy 1:18 (ESV). It reads, “This charge I entrust to you Timothy, my child, in accordance with the prophecies previously made about you, that by them you may wage the good warfare.” Paul is saying that Timothy is able to use the prophecies (and by extension promises) as he fights the warfare of his faith.

What has God promised you that can become a basis for audacious prayer? Abraham used this when he needed to exercise faith in the seeming impossible. “No unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised.” (Romans 4:20-21 ESV)

I mentioned previously that God is stretching my faith to at least try launching a podcast as a ministry. The more He speaks to me about it the more I have confidence to pray in faith and take first steps in the process. I don’t know how He is going to make it happen, but then again I don’t know how He made the sun stand still as well. Let’s be a people to ask big of the Lord when He gives us promises to stand upon.

Why you may be feeling beat up and not know why

Ever feel like you are getting beat up and just not sure why? Do you feel like you are taking a beating in your emotions and spirit? Here may be one of the reasons. Watch it and then begin to act to make a difference.

Warning! Are you missing out seeing an amazing God? (Updated)

How big is your God? I was at a prayer and fasting retreat for pastors and the speaker for the event was one of my mentors Ron Auch of Pray Tell ministries. He had a great illustration that I wanted to pass along to you. He reminded us of the fact that the moon is about 2200 miles across. At the same time the sun is over 800,000 miles across. They are not even close in size. But the much smaller moon is able to block out the view of the sun in the form of an eclipse. Isn’t that amazing?

But what does that have to do with your life? When we think of comparison of the devil and God we have the same kind of difference of size. God and the devil are not even close when it comes to power. Yet the devil can often block our view of God. This happens for 2 reasons:

  1. We allow the devil to get a lot closer to us than God.

This can happen through our favorite sins. This can happen through simply the seemingly harmless activities that allow too much darkness in our lives. I can’t say what that is for you, but each of us must guard our hearts.

  1. We let the devil get between us and God.

This happens when we don’t proactively move into His presence. Ron put it this way, “Our greatest spiritual battle is to get into the prayer closet.” When we see how big God is He takes up our whole view.

[tweetthis]Our greatest spiritual battle is to get into the prayer closet.-Ron Auch[/tweetthis]

Has God got out of view because you need to get rid of some darkness that has got to close, or is it just a need of running into His presence?