Being Bold in Prayer

Hello friends!!! I just want to start out by saying I miss you all A TON, and I think about y'all every day! I miss Sky Ranch so much, but unfortunately, we can't stay there forever :/

I just got back from Ignite last night (a Christian camp for incoming freshman at UT), and the Lord continued to refine me and teach me new things just like he did at Sky. Probably the biggest thing I was convicted of was how much I continually put God in a box. Looking back on this summer, I have realized that the Lord worked in BIG ways, and did so much more than I could have ever dreamed. A lot of times when I pray, I pray really vaguely and I don't pray for really crazy things because in the back of my mind, I don't REALLY believe that the Lord will deliver and answer those things. That mindset is ridiculous. I am serving the same God who raised Jesus from the dead and who heals the blind. Of course He can work in miraculous ways! I have seen Him do it!

Last night, when I got home, I was hanging out with my sister before bed. I had been praying for awhile (but especially this past week) that God would stir in her heart and move in her life because she isn't walking with Him. As we were talking on my bed, she started opening up and confessing all these dark struggles that had been taking over her life; she began to confess a life that she had kept secret for about 6 months. In that moment, I was broken, but I was also so joyful because the Lord was answering my prayers in a BIG way right before my own eyes! I am still blown away by the fact that He let me in on His plan, but I was able to lay out the gospel for my sister. We walked through what it means to be made white as snow (Isaiah 1:18) and that now there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus (Rom 8:1). This is just a condensed version, but long story short, my sister is ready to start seeking the Lord and ready to start finding her comfort in Him and Him ALONE. Only He can redeem our life from the pit (Psalm 103:4).

So basically the Lord answered my bold prayers for my sister! And not only did he answer them, but He did it in such a way that was better than what I could have ever thought! He is so good!

I just want to encourage you guys to plead with the Lord for Him to move in huge ways because He can, and He will! But have faith when you ask; our doubtful prayers are pointless! Be bold in prayer, and have confidence that our Father can move in mighty ways.

I LOVE YOU ALL

But 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. That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does.

-James 1:6-8

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

-Eph 3:20-21