Our youth pastor once preached about \u201cOutrageous, Audacious, Ostentatious Prayer.\u201d I feel like that\u2019s a leap above regular faith. It\u2019s when you go beyond the normal expectations and step out to the unheard of\u2014to the kinds of things that cause people to look at you and say, \u201cYou\u2019re crazy.\u201d Ok, maybe they wouldn\u2019t actually verbalize it; but, they\u2019d say it with their eyes, begin that sly side-step, moving away from you, thinking you\u2019re not like everybody else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Message to the world: \u201cI don\u2019t WANT to be like \u2018everybody else\u2019!\u201d I\u2019m choosing to believe for things that some don\u2019t have the audacity to believe can happen. I\u2019m going to pray BIG prayers, claim aloud things I don\u2019t possess, and worship God for outrageous answers to prayer!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than once I\u2019ve been told, \u201cDon\u2019t get your hopes up.\u201d Many times I\u2019ve felt that I was the only one actually believing for something\u2026. And. That\u2019s. Ok. I\u2019m beyond worrying if anyone is going along with me for the prayer journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People\u2019s prayers all look different. I look at prayer more like a hike. You see, Satan hasn\u2019t paved a nice flat, obstacle-free surface for our prayer journey. It\u2019s more like an uphill, rocky climb. It may momentarily flatten out to make us think things are going better, only to let you step off an unforeseen cliff that lands you smack in the middle of a forest where you can\u2019t tell which direction you need to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yeah, it\u2019s a hike. It takes endurance. It takes faith that the next step will be securely planted in God\u2019s footprint ahead of me. With each step I get closer to what outrageous, audacious, ostentatious prayers bring: outrageous, audacious, ostentatious MIRACLES! And this is why I\u2019ll get them\u2014because I dared to pray them. I\u2019m daring to venture past average prayer life into the realm of outrageous prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m nowhere near where I need to be yet. I imagine others who are stronger than I walking in the treetops on their prayer journey. We can always be closer to God, more patient, growing in our faith and in our worshipful attitude along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that\u2019s my prayer\u2026 to be striving toward those outrageous, audacious, ostentatious miracles and improving my ability to believe for and receive them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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