Risking in Prayer

When the New Orleans Saints fell behind Indianapolis early in the Super Bowl, 10-0, I broke a personal rule and prayed for the Saints. Specifically, my prayer was that the Saints would intercept a pass and run it back for a touchdown to win the game. Of course, my prayer was answered in the fourth quarter.
How silly and even blasphemous could I get, praying for the Saints? Is God, with all His cosmic problems, going to intervene on behalf of the home team? We all do that, we major in the minor things of life and we trust God for that. It's a no- risk prayer.

or...

When a friend I care for gets the word from the doctor, cancer, I pray. I ask God to help comfort and heal but I do not pray as specifically as I did for the interception.  I will pray things like... God if it's your will, please heal. Yet in the New Testament there is a different level of prayer. The language is more direct, and more acknowledging the power of God to intervene and make a difference. Now please, this is not an act of presumption but an acceptance of the place of authority that God has given us as His children.

James 1

⁶But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. ⁷That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; ⁸he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does. 

This is not talking about changing your mind or opinion but about fully putting your trust in one solution. You can't hedge your bet when it comes to prayer, you need to be all in. Ask for the complete in- breaking of God's power not a half measure, or attempt.  Let God be sovereign and fulfill the outcome but in the mean time, move out in your prayer and ask, plead for the specific things that align with His will and go for it.

So what are some things that are "risk it" level things that only God can move on? 

Make a list 

Ask him to move into those areas pray over them... and see what He does, and the answers can be yes, NO, or not yet. God has this all in His hands we pray so that we change and become more like Him. Just think about this, the risk He takes making us the vessels of grace and eternal love every day! Wow! 

So now keep track of those risk it prayers and let's see what stories we can encourage each other with.