This past Sunday, Linda Sothern taught on journaling as a spiritual discipline. She called me the Journal Queen and I am. But Linda talked about a type of journal that I don't have: the Impossible Prayer Journal. This journal is to record things that seem impossible. She talked about how Chaplin Black at the Senate has one and how he has seen God answer his impossible prayers.
Since I'm such a journal junkie and I have a pile of unused journals on my office table, I committed to start one. I wrote my first entry in it tonight. It wasn't fancy but the list was things I feel are impossible right now.
Here is the strange thing. After I finished writing, I realized that I was praying too small. Everything on my list was things God already promised to do or that are probable. For instance, one of my impossible prayers is to get a three-book contract. Well, if I keep writing and studying my craft, it's already possible for me to get one.
Sad to say, I see where I'm limiting God. I've been asking for things that I can already see happening, but not what is really impossible. Do you do that? Do you pray and ask God for things that are already probable?
My list revealed my faith in God. Why are my prayers so small if I believe that God is the God of the impossible? So I'm going to make another attempt. I'm going to pray that the AIDS epidemic in Africa stop. I'm going to pray that the people in China will be able to be openly Christian. I'm going to pray that the abortion rate go down and the adoption rate go up. I'm praying that every unbeliever that comes to National be saved.
What about you? How big are your prayers?
-Terri J. Haynes
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