The Truth About the Size of Our Prayer Requests
by Edie Melson @EdieMelson �The Lord your God is in your midst, A victorious warrior. He will exult over you with joy, He will be quiet in His love, He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy. Zephaniah 3:17 For many years, I prayed and spoke to God from behind a wall of misapprehension. I used to categorize my requests to God into two lists. Those that were big things and those that were small things. I tried to only bother Him with the big things. When I shared my prayer requests with others, I was careful not to bring up requests that I�d decided were minor. I knew that nothing was too big for God, and I�d even share that thought with others who were struggling. And while this is an absolute truth, it leaves out so much. Then one day I had an epiphany. With God, no matter how big the request, it�s still small to Him. That bit of revelation took me a few days to process. But as the truth of it permeated, so did the freedom that came with it. My attempt to differentiate between ...