What if God's people prayed?

If you haven't read the updates from the IMPACT Team down in Mexico...you need to! There's been some incredible stuff happening that's worth getting excited about! You can check it out here.

As I read through the updates yesterday and was thinking about the team and their experiences this morning, one question just kept burning on my heart...Why don't we live each day with expectancy? We can say we do, but how many of us really start out our day or go through our day expecting God to move?

Why don't we expect great things from God? We pray safe & reasonable prayers - why not dangerous prayers calling for the miraculous? Don't we believe that God can do it? Don't we expect that God would want to work in miraculous ways in our everyday life?

Why is seeing God work in miraculous ways something that seems so foreign to us? Do we truly believe that the only place we can experience that kind of power is out on the foreign mission field?

I think it was about three years ago now that Terry Bley shared at summer camp that "a surrendered life is an empowered life, and an empowered life expects the miraculous." As that Fall kicked off, we were challenged to think through what our "I SEE" statements were - what were we expecting from God? What were we going to commit to praying for, commit to seeing happen?

How many of us are still praying those "I SEE" statements? Or have we simply forgotten about them or given up on them, thinking of them as a thing of the past- a moment? What if expecting things from God - expecting Him to work in miraculous ways became a movement among the Body of Christ? What if we quit putting limitations on God & trusted that He wants to work everyday miracles? What if we relied on the power of the God who created the universe instead of allowing our faith to be snuffed out by our own limitations, doubts, & weaknesses? What if we prayed with the same belief and power that we had up in the mountains of Huallanca, Peru or in the Amazon Jungle, or down in the Dominican, or across the border in Mexico, or at the final night session at summer camp? What if we prayed with that kind of expectancy all the time?

Or maybe the question should be- what if we prayed?

Have we forgotten just what prayer is? It's not simply throwing up words in the air - it's a way to talk with and hear from our Creator! Prayer is not a chore, it's a privilege- another chance to partner with God. So why do we make it so hard?

What would happen if we would become people of prayer?