Small prayers. . .

I haven't blogged in a week or two. But I was having a think and I needed to get some thoughts down on 'paper' so I felt urged to write. I have just read Job 42 v 2:

"I know that you can do all things;
No plan of yours can be thwarted."

Several thoughts have flown into my head:

I believe in a God who can do anything. I believe that God created the universe with a word. I believe that that same God can move in mighty ways in our lives and in our land, but maybe we just don't ask for enough? We pray such small prayers, and while God cares for the smallest details of our lives are we missing out on something? I believe in a BIG God - but we often make Him smaller so that we can fit Him into our circumstances. (I remember thinking in Romania that God seemed to feel bigger out there - where people relied on Him for every single thing with total and unwavering faith that He would provide! That is faith in a BIG God!)
And as I sit in NI trying to think and pray slightly bigger prayers I struggle to think of anything. How about a life totally devoted to God, where my only aim is to glorify Him and to dwell in His presence from the moment I wake to the moment I sleep? How about a totally pure heart, that truly seeks first God's kingdom? How about radically changed lives in 2020, or in Waringstown? How about a changed country, or a changed world?

In Matthew 21:21, Jesus talks of the power of a prayer of faith to move a mountain. Maybe it is time I stopped praying for molehills, and started praying for mountains? After all, I believe in a God who can do all things...!