Prayer Ambitions

First, there is no church signed up to pray for 24 hours today. Second, I erroneously reported that there was no one covering yesterday, but Oak Park Baptist recently turned up their commitment to every week, and they are doing it on Thursdays. Thank you, Baptist brothers and sisters for having our backs!

Consider this passage and what it means:

12“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father. 13 Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it." -Jesus in John 14:12-14

It sounds like Jesus has pretty much given us a blank check. And I have heard arguments that discount this, as well as some exploiting it to a somewhat questionable degree. The disciples seemed to have taken this at face value. They healed the sick, did signs and wonders, and converted thousands at a time. They also had violent opposition and suffered great persecution. Was it because they failed to pray that this would not happen?

Mark 10:29 Jesus said, “Truly I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or farms, for My sake and for the gospel’s sake, 30 but that he will receive a hundred times as much now in the present age, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and farms, along with persecutions; and in the age to come, eternal life. 31 “But many who are first will be last, and the last, first.”

 Ah, yes. Jesus actually promised us persecutions, so they come with the territory. Nonetheless, the check Jesus has signed off on seems to be of a considerable amount. Why are we not spending it? It may be that we are like the servant who was given a talent of silver and told to invest it. When the master returned, he brought it back to him, wrapped up in the cloth in which he had buried it. He was afraid to use it because, "Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed: 25 And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine" Matthew 25:24-2.


I am longing to cash Jesus' big check in Gainesville. I want to see miracles, signs, wonders, and revival. I don't want to stand before Him some day, with these shiny verses in my dirty cloth, saying, "See? I remembered these! I was just afraid to use them because I thought I might make a mistake..."

This is why I am seeking after others who will pray. I believe in Jesus more than I believe in my doubts.