A Weakened Faith

Someone once told me, "If you want to know how a person is doing spiritually, listen to them pray." I never thought much of it until recently, when I really thought about my prayers. I feel like many of my prayers are lacking faith. I pray for things to happen with the expectation that they won't happen. Here's a tangible example: I've been praying that my friend may find her way back to Christ. I've been praying it for so long and have seen so little results that in my heart, I'm praying it just for the sake of praying it. My view of God's sovereignty has greatly diminished and it's been showing in the heart of my prayers.

Gone are also the bold prayer, the ones that I lift up to God because as impossible as they seem, I KNOW that He can answer them because He is God. With a God as powerful as ours, we can pray bold. My prayers have been anything but bold lately. Mundane, typical, cliche...and there's nothing wrong with a "boring" prayer but I feel like my lack of bold prayer is also a reflection of where my faith is at.

Genesis 1:3
And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.

Does anyone find that crazy? Everything in existence, the sun, the moon, the stars, the sky, the waters, the plants, the animals, the chemistry and physics behind it all, the mountain ranges...all of those things were merely spoken into existence with a few sentences! Our God is a powerful God. If God can do all of that with a few sentences, imagine what He can do in your life by merely speaking a few words. I first heard this at a summer camp that I was at and it completely revolutionized my faith. I am thankful that I was reminded of this tonight.