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In Acts 10:3 there is a phrase “One day.” It is pregnant with hope, because One day could be today. Today could be the day God answers a prayer or perform the miracle. In one day, God can deliver an addiction that’s held someone captive for years. In one day, God can bring back a prodigal child who has been gone for decades. In one day, God can provide more than someone has accumulated in a lifetime.
To experience our one day, we must pray every day. Prayer is not like playing the lottery, it is more like an investment account where every deposit accumulates compound interest, then one day it pays dividends beyond our imagination.
Mark Batterson tells the story of receiving a call where someone wanted to make an anonymous donation of $3 million. Why? “Because your vision is beyond your resources.” His church had irrational dreams of reaching people for Jesus.
Our church operates the same way, we practice sound financial management counting the cost of every vision. But we do not let our budget determine our vision. It is normal for churches to butcher the God given dreams because we forget God has unlimited supplies! We don’t let fear dictate our decisions.
We do not have to pray louder or longer or with the correct theological terminology. God listens to our hearts and is moved by our faith more than by our words. It is our childlike faith and belief in WHO HE IS, that moves our heavenly Father. The size of your prayers depends on the size of your God; if your god is small, you’ll pray man-sized prayers. But if your God knows no limits, then neither will your prayers.
When Jesus walked out of the tomb, the word impossible was removed from our vocabulary.
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