The constant refrain I would love for you to have turning over in your mind is this question: "what is it that only God can do?". Let's not set the bar so low that we can effectively control the outcome of our prayers by ourselves. That kind of prayer is valid in part, but it hardly requires an exercise of faith, and so neither glorifies God no blesses us.

There are things that we are utterly powerless to control. Let's go after those things together. What do you long to see in our church? In your family? Among your friends and colleagues? What miracle are you desperate for? I believe there are spiritual blessings we have not experienced simply because we haven't been bothered to ask (James 4:2). So let's follow the invitation of Jesus: Ask, seek and knock (Matthew 7:7-12). This is no blank cheque to be spent on selfish desires, but it isn't an empty promise either. Our God doesn't give those. His promises can be called on!

Ask yourself: what is it that only God can do? What blessing sits so far outside of our human ability to reach? And let's join our voices in prayer this month to seek after such things.