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#89-Book Club: From Comfort to Courage with the book Dangerous Prayers

• Leslie Martinez • Season 5 • Episode 89

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Ever found yourself stuck in the realm of safe and predictable prayers, only to wonder if there's more to spiritual growth than the comfort zone? Join me, in this episode as we explore the book "Dangerous Prayers," by Craig Groeschel. Prepare to challenge the ordinary with prayers that invite profound change and growth—"Search Me," "Break Me," and "Send Me." With a touch of humor, I encourage you to reveal those hidden areas of your heart for God to work His magic.

I share personal stories of how embracing these bold prayers led me to unexpected paths, like joining a prayer team, and ultimately strengthened my connection with God's plans. Whether you're grappling with midlife challenges or seeking purpose, these prayers promise to stretch your faith and lead you towards fulfilling Gods plan!

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What if the prayers that you're praying are just too safe? What if they're too predictable and they're actually holding you back from the life that God has for you? In this episode, we are continuing with our special book club series. If this is your first time joining us, we've been diving deep into some powerful reads that challenge us, inspire us and help us grow in our faith. Today's book is one that'll push you out of your comfort zone and into a deeper, bolder walk with God. We're talking about dangerous prayers from Craig Grishel.

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Now, if you're anything like me, sometimes our prayer life can feel well kind of a little routine. You know, safe, predictable. But if God is calling us to something more, what if he's calling us to pray prayers that not only change situations but change us? Today, we're going to explore what it looks like to pray dangerous prayers, the kind that stretch our faith and shape our hearts in a radical way. So let's get into it.

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Hey everyone, I'm Leslie Martinez and you're listening to your Joyful Order podcast. Each week, I will bring you joyful stories that will motivate and inspire you and, at the same time, bring order to your everyday life. Let's just say the show will be a mixture of preaching and teaching, with a kick of motivation from your girl here. Welcome to your Joyful Order podcast. Hey friends, welcome back to another episode of the podcast. Before we dive into today's discussion, I just want to set an intention for this episode. My hope is that by the end of our conversation, that you'll feel empowered to move beyond safe and comfortable prayers and begin praying with boldness and trust in God's transformative power.

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Dangerous prayers isn't about getting what we want from God. It's about allowing him to do a deep work in us, even if it's uncomfortable and I promise you it's going to be uncomfortable. Now, are you ready to get uncomfortable with me? We're going to do this together. You're not alone in this. Okay, but I want us to begin by talking about the three dangerous prayers that Craig Rochelle outlines in the book. These are prayers that will stretch us, that will challenge us and, quite honestly, might scare us a little bit. It's going to scare you, I'll just tell you upfront. It's going to scare you, but they are also prayers that can lead to the most significant growth in our relationship with God. I'm going to tell you what those three dangerous prayers are, just upfront. The three dangerous prayers that you can pray are search me, break me and send me. If you're taking notes, go grab a piece of paper, hit, pause or open up your notes page on your phone and you want to write those down. Search me, break me and send me. Now we're going to go into each of these a little deeper.

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The first dangerous prayer that Craig talks about is search me, and I think this one hits really close to home for a lot of us. The idea is simple but very powerful Search me, god, and know my heart, test me and know my anxious thoughts, see if there is any offensive way in me and lead me in the way everlasting. That is Psalm 139, 23 through 24. Write that down, and it is about inviting God to dig deep into our hearts and show us what we've been avoiding. Let me tell you that this is not an easy prayer. It is like handing God the keys to a very locked door in your life and saying go ahead, god, open it. It's messy in there and I want to. I want to just give you a visual of this. Okay, the messiest part of us you're going to like. It's been hidden for so long and hidden as to hidden to others, but not hidden to God, because God knows everything, but there are times that he needs us to be prepared to unlock that door and this is like the messy, ugly, scary stuff that is inside that nobody knows about, and I want to just paint this visual for you.

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There is this episode of friends. If, if y'all have been here long enough, I might have referred to friends way too often, but I'm a friends fan. It's like one of my most favorite shows ever and if you're a friends fan, you're going to know this episode. Now, monica, she is one of the characters on the Friends show and she is your kind of type A OCD, very clean, freak person, right? She categorizes her towels, she wants everything clean and organized. When she's anxious, she cleans. She cleans just to make her happy and she is the person that if you wanted something organized, planned, you're planning an event, a trip, a move, anything like that. She is your go-to person and she even has a mini vacuum for her big vacuum, because she doesn't like her big, big vacuum to be dusty. I'm painting a picture for you here.

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All right, now there's an episode in friends where her husband, chandler they just get married he moves in and he's looking at this closet and Joey, their friend, across the hall. There he's like what is in that closet? Like we've, you know, we've known Monica for so long, we've been in this apartment so long. What is in that closet? And her husband Chandler is like I don't know. I've been living here for quite some time now and I don't think I've ever seen her open the closet. What's in that closet? So he asked Monica and she just kind of like shakes him off, you know, like oh, don't worry about it, there's nothing in there that's important to you. So then he becomes super curious. So he finds a way to manipulate, opening the closet and when he opens the closet it is a hot mess. Like her closet is my version of my garage, y'all. It is messy, it's unorganized, there's all kinds of junk and crap in there from ceiling to floor. Utter chaos, utter, utter chaos. Now Monica is super embarrassed when she realizes that he opens this closet because she is known as perfect, organized, clean.

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A woman who categorizes her towels 11 different ways, like I mean you would not expect this mess in her house. We all have this mess inside our house, no matter how primmed or perfect. You look on the outside and when we pray this prayer search me bored, we are handing over God the key to that mess that is inside. Now, for me, when I started praying this prayer, I realized that I had some fears and anxieties that I hadn't dealt with. But, as Craig points out in the book, god can't heal what we don't reveal. I'm going to say that again so you can write it down God can't heal what we don't reveal. So praying search me is about allowing God to uncover those areas that need healing, is about allowing God to uncover those areas that need healing, that need restoration and that need growth. Now I painted a picture of Monica's closet. Right we give God the keys. I will tell you, this is probably one of the more difficult prayers that I recently have had to kind of unpack, because I gave God the keys and said search me, lord.

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And in episode was 87, just a couple episodes ago, I talked about worthy and I shared my story, my personal story of me feeling unworthy for a lot of times due to rejection from the relationship of my father, and it was something that I thought I surface level. Oh, I took care of it, I forgave, I moved on. I've created somewhat of a one-sided relationship with my father. I just, I just want everything to be peaceful and happy and let us just look, surface level, like things are good and because I had prayed, this prayer search me. That's where God, little by little, starts to unpack these things. He's like, oh, this feeling of unworthiness. Let's have this hang here for a little bit, leslie, let's unpack this. Why do you feel unworthy? He's searching your heart. He's searching your spirit. He's searching our soul to unpack that and, little by little, that messy closet that we've been hiding from the world.

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Eventually, all those ugly, nasty things that we've been putting away, all those ugly, nasty things that we've been putting away, waiting to take to goodwill. You know you're driving around right now listening to this and you got a bag of junk in your trunk right now that you're like, oh, one day I'll get to the goodwill or Salvation Army or to the domestic violence home to donate the old clothes to the women's shelter, whatever. Little by little, god eventually is like you know what? We're going to pull it out, we're going to look at it for a little bit, we're going to see what is causing this and then we're going to get rid of it. You no longer can say that you feel unworthy. It's done. We dropped it off at the shelter, we dropped it off at Goodwill. It's gone, it's no longer in your closet, it's no longer in your trunk Right.

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And sometimes it has to go from our messy closet into the trash bag, the trash bag into the garage or into the car, and sometimes it sits there. You know. It's like ah okay, I saw that it was there. We took it out of our, we took it out of our spirit, took it out of our soul, put it in, put it in a trash bag, but then we let it sit there for a little bit. We don't truly unpack it. We have to drop it off wherever. Like we need to put it in the trash, oh, we need to put it in the trash. We need to donate it and give it away. If you're driving with junk in your trunk right now, go handle that. Right now, girl, go handle it.

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And I am kind of loosely, not just literally saying go drop those clothes off at the women's shelter or at the Goodwill, but also what has God unpacked from your heart right now, from your spirit? When maybe you prayed this and said God search me, what did he dig up right now that you have to work through and now kind of sat there for a long time. Because I'm in the thick of that right now with y'all. Let's just say that I finally have, like, eventually, dropped some of that junk in my trunk off and I've unpacked it and I've shared some of that through these episodes with you. But I'm also still working through some other areas that God is searching my heart. You know I'm I'm working on learning to love people in a different type of way and that is where, when we are praying these prayers, god starts little by little. You know, this is what you're going to do. This is what you're going to do and this is what you need to work on, leslie. You need to work on learning to love people in a different way, learning to love people who are unlovable. That's hard, y'all, that's hard, and that's where I'm sitting right now. I haven't I haven't fully taken that junk out of the trunk. It's been exposed. I'm like, oh, I got to get rid of this. It's in the trash bag. It's sitting here in the house still and, as I'm learning that concept right now, eventually it will be dropped off and God will be like you got it, leslie, you're good, that's. You know you're not unlovable.

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Now I want to go into the next bold prayer, which is break me bold prayer, which is break me Now. This one is the kind of prayer that most of us will not pray. I mean, who really wants to be broken? Right? I will tell you, when I learned of this prayer, I was like, ooh, I'm going to stay away from that one. Asking God to break you is almost as bad as asking God for patience, right? You know what happens with that. When you ask, when you pray that prayer of patience, god is simply going to put you in situations for you to practice your patience, because how else do we exercise patience? You got to be thrown in the fire, right? And when you ask God to break you, I mean you're going to get broken. That's basically what you're asking, and it's, it's a scary prayer, y'all. I'm not going to lie. It is something that even some of you are listening to this and you're like I wish I didn't hear that, because I went for a long time not even thinking of ever praying this until it was brought to me, not just from this book, but from pastors and mentors that I have heard speak many times and they have talked about many of these prayers and break me, I was like, ooh, that's scary. No, just, let's just get past that one, cause I don't, I don't want to pray that one.

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But in the book, craig emphasizes that this is where real transformation happens. It's about saying God, whatever it takes, break me so that I can be more like you. It reminds me of a season where I was going through just some really tough circumstances. I remember feeling so broken, but in that season God did some of his deepest work in me. Brokenness leads to breakthrough, and what does that look like for you right now? Have you ever experienced that kind of moment where God used brokenness to just bring you closer to him? I'm certain many of you can relate to that. I know personally. I feel like I'm just coming out of that broken season, and sometimes it's a short season, sometimes it's a long season, depending on what God needs to work in and through you.

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Now let's move on to the next one, which is the last bold prayer, which is send me. And this is where things get really bold. It's the prayer where we say here I am, lord, send me wherever you want, however you want. It's about being available for God's purpose, even if it takes us out of our comfort zones. I think a lot of times we pray for God's purpose, even if it takes us out of our comfort zones. I think a lot of times we pray for God's will, but we secretly hope that it lines up with our plans. Right, we have our own goals and intentions that we have sought out after and oftentimes we're like okay, god, this is my goal, I'm praying that you make it happen and we want this.

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Oh, lord, I'm really feeling called to the central coast of Italy. You know, oh, I'm really feeling that there's some people I need to pray for in Lake Como in Italy, or a Lord, I really feel that I would get completely transformed by sending me on a safari in Africa and really just seeing the people there. You know, yeah, or you know, god, just send me $10 million. I mean, lord, really that's. I think that's what this prayer really is is send me money, send me a thriving business yeah, those are the ones that we want to line up with God, right, those send me prayers. Who else has secretly, like, said Lord, send me the lotto numbers so I could, I could win, right, the Powerball or whatever it is. I want to win the millions, send it to me. But I think a lot of times we pray and then, like I said, we wanted to line up with God's plans, but this prayer flips that. Actually, it's not about us, it's not about sending me where I want to go. It's about trusting God's plan for our lives, even when we don't fully understand them.

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I have been praying this prayer Now. I read this book in January of this year of 2024. And this concept of these bold prayers? I have heard these prayers before. I have been listening to Craig Rochelle for years. I've read, like, a numerous amount of his books. Let's just say that I listen to his podcast weekly, listen to his sermons, and he has preached about this before. So, reading his book, this wasn't, like you know, a revelation like, oh, I've never heard these before. No, I've heard about bold prayers before. Search me, break me, send me. I've heard of this. I've never heard these before. No, I've heard about bold prayers before. Search me, break me, send me. I've heard of this, I've prayed them before. So in January, when I went to read his book, I was just reminded of these prayers. Let's just say that I was reminded in that I said, lord, this year I want to draw closer to you in the word and through prayer. Send me, send me where you want me to go, to the people that I need to reach.

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That was January, february. That's when I got the tug of my heart to join the prayer team. Join the prayer team and I shared back in episode I think it's 83, the Power of Prayer. I'm not going to get too deep again into the story of how God led me into the prayer team, but you guys, I definitely would refer for you to go back and listen to that one, because I give some great tips also of ways to start a prayer practice and this is just kind of adding on to that. That's why I wanted to do this episode, because you could kind of count this as like a part two to that episode, because now we're going a little deeper as to the type of prayers that you can pray and send me.

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God sent me into the prayer room and I've been part of the prayer team for the last several months. And then he also sent me to lead a soap Bible study group, which I am in the thick of it right now, and I am teaching ways to study the Bible to a group of women via Zoom, and these are two areas that I never saw myself in and I didn't think I would be in these places this year. But I said that prayer, lord, send me, send me. And is it uncomfortable? Yes, when I am in that prayer room, it is, um, it's so peaceful and, don't get me wrong, I love praying for people, but there are times, there are some very hard circumstances that people come in and ask for prayer for and I'm just like, wow, I don't even know what to pray and it's digging deep with the Holy Spirit to allow the Holy Spirit to speak in and through me for the prayers that this person needs. There's brokenness, there's pain, there's hurt. There's so much that goes on in those prayer rooms and it's uncomfortable, y'all. It's very uncomfortable teaching an online prayer group. It's uncomfortable in that it's taking me outside of my comfort zone of learning these new ways to teach the Bible and making sure that I sound somewhat you know, intelligent enough to lead a Bible study group in the gospels, which we're reading through, and I'm making sure that I'm studying like I got to know this and as a teacher by nature, if I am going to teach a subject, teach a concept, I have to know it and sign it out. So I feel comfortable enough to lead my group in. You know, whatever it is that we're doing. So it's taken me out of my comfort zone where I'm like God, I don't get this, like what are you saying here? So I have had to be very creative in looking for new ways of working smarter, not harder, and studying the Bible. So those are the three bold prayers that Craig first talks about, which is the search me, break me and send me.

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Now my next point that I want to lay out for you from Craig's book is the whole theme of like contrasting between comfort and courage, and Craig Creschel talks about how our natural inclination is to pray for comfort. God keep me safe, god, help me to avoid pain. God keep me safe, god help me to avoid pain. And while there's nothing wrong with those prayers at all nothing they just don't require much faith. Lord, keep me safe. You're already safe. Keep me safe. There's not a ton of faith behind that. Real faith is built when we step out in courage, when we have to trust God in the unknown.

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So let's talk about this for a minute. I want you to sit and think about this. When is the last time that you prayed for courage instead of comfort, and what would happen if we started praying for the strength to face the challenges instead of asking for God to take those challenges away? I am certain that you that are listening right now. There is something that you prayed to God for this morning, or, you know, yesterday, prayed to God for this morning or you know, yesterday. There is something that you are sitting with right now that you're just like Lord. I really need you to. You know, take care of this situation right now.

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Maybe you're in a financial situation and you're like Lord I don't know how I'm going to keep the lights on in my house next month and you're praying for a way for money to just pop up a special refund check or one of those claim checks that you filled out months ago and finally came through from that breach of data from Verizon or from I don't know, just throwing names out there. We have to learn to be courageous and ask God to not just solve or take the problem away. But, god, how can I grow in this trial right now? Maybe you're suffering sickness right now and you're asking God to heal you and I I pray that in Jesus name for your body right now. I pray that if you are asking for healing from some disease, from sickness, from pain, in Jesus name, lord, I pray that you bless my sister that is listening right now and I ask for you to heal her, lord. I not only ask for your healing of her mind, body and spirit, lord, I ask that you allow her that, through the pain and suffering that she's going through right now, lord, that you allow her a new strength to carry whatever it is that she's carrying right now. We're asking and believing for healing, but, lord, if that healing doesn't come through. And believing for healing, but Lord, if that healing doesn't come through, change who she is through this Lord, who does she have to be to fight this battle that she is encountering right now?

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There are women that are out there that are battling cancer right now breast cancer. Let's talk about breast cancer October. Just, you know we're in the thick of October right now, breast Cancer Awareness Month. We want someone to be healed, right? Wouldn't it be great if you just showed up your oncology appointment and they went to do a scan on your breast and they're like we don't see any tumor. It's gone, you're completely healed. Praise God. God does that, god performs miracles like that and you're praying for the healing, or your healing may come in a miracle and it just being gone. Your healing may come through having to do a few rounds of chemotherapy. Your healing may come in having to have a mastectomy. Healing will come. We want the miraculous just vanishing kind of miracle right and healing.

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We don't want to pray that courageous one of Lord, help my body to be strong and withstand the treatments. Help my body to be strong enough to get through a double mastectomy. Those are courageous prayers, right there, and that's what we need to learn to do. Don't just stay in our comfort zone and like, oh Lord, keep me safe, lord, just heal me miraculously, let the tumor go away. I'm not saying not to pray those Please hear me out on this. You need to pray that. But then we need to stand firm behind that and say, lord, let your will be done and lord I. I need the strength to allow my body to take in the chemo, allow my body to get through the surgery. And if we started praying those prayers, just think of how you're going to change and how your relationship with God is going to change.

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Also, instead of asking God to just take the challenges away, how can we be transformed through these challenges? And that's where our faith really grows. And y'all, I'm with you on that. Like I want, I want the supernatural healing, right, I want the quick fix. Like I want the check to just pop in the mail. You know, lord, let my finances be taken care of. Oh, I got a refund check for $10,000. Amen, I hit the power ball. Thank you, jesus, you gave me the numbers. Hey, it can happen, right. I'm not saying don't pray that. Hey, it can happen, right. I'm not saying don't pray that, but I'm saying learn to pray in a way that doesn't just take away the hardships. Pray in a way that's not just taking the challenges away or keeping us comfortable. Pray in a way that we are going to grow through the challenges.

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Now let's move on to our next point, and that is why safe prayers don't lead to growth, and Craig just brings up this topic, and it's so easy to fall into the routine of asking for things that make life a little easier, right, like those simple prayers that I was just talking about. But those kinds of prayers rarely stretch our faith. I've noticed in my own life that the times when I've grown the most are when I was praying those dangerous prayers, asking God to change me rather than to change my circumstances. And what about you? What have you prayed for that you see right now? Okay, god, maybe I need to change the way that I am praying. Like, have you ever found yourself praying in a way that just felt too safe? And how do you think God is inviting us to step into a risk? And how do you think that God is inviting us to step into a deeper, riskier prayer life? It's going to go back to allowing us those risky prayers, right, those dangerous prayers, but it's going to lead to growth in our faith and our relationship with the Lord in our faith and our relationship with the Lord. Now I'd love to share just a personal story of how this book and these prayers have impacted my prayer life.

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After reading Dangerous Prayers, I had prayed the whole send me, which I said earlier. God winded up sending me into the prayer room. He winded up sending me leading a small group and, to be honest, it was really scary at first. There's there's lots of other things that I have prayed. Y'all that I was just like this podcast one I, when I pray, god sent me. He's like I'm sending you to launch podcasts, I'm sending you to launch a journal, I'm sending you to launch a new Bible study journal and I'm just like, excuse me, god, how, when, why me? Really now I saw doors open and opportunities arise that I have never imagined meeting people, this podcast, all the people, like the guests that I have had just this season alone. I'm still like I can't believe that God had allowed me to connect with these people and that I've been able to meet them.

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And saying yes to God's call has stretched me in ways that I did not expect, but it also has been some of the most fulfilling experiences in my life. Do I face challenges? Absolutely. Am I in the thick of some pretty deep challenges right now? Yes, because I've asked God search me, break me, send me, y'all, break me. Prayer, woo, that has me a mess like a mess. And then you know, I think I think this is. This is just totally I'm veering off of my notes here um, to the women in their forties right now. Let me just have a moment with you right now because you may be praying these prayers of break me and I think when we get to this level of like 40, let's just call it, let's just call forties.

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I'm in my mid forties now and the whole break me, I think, just automatically comes once we hit a perimenopause. Because talk about breaking me. Ooh, those perimenopause symptoms will have you cray cray and really thinking that you are cray cray, and you go to your doctor and your doctor's like, oh, let me give you some Prozac or some antidepressants and are you suffering from anxiety? Do you need this? Like they want to prescribe you everything in the medicine cabinet because you're losing it, because you're breaking down and it has to go back, with our hormones just your hormones being completely out of whack and you experiencing symptoms and challenges and your brain isn't functioning on all cylinders because your brain functions off of hormones. And when you know the estrogen and progesterone start to deteriorate in your body, your brain starts to slow down in a different way and you're like Lord, you're breaking me without me even having to say the prayer. I think it's like a rite of passage that God just automatically takes these women into the break me zone. So I'm there with you right now, ladies, let's just say that I'm there with you. There is absolutely no scientific proof or biblical proof to any of this. I'm just throwing out my opinions to this. I am not a doctor, I am not certified to give medical advice, nor am I a theologian to connect the two together. But I'm just going to tell you you'll women in your forties going through premenopause Welcome to the break me prayer, because God's just automatically going to break you without you even saying the prayer. Okay, let's move on.

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The next discussion point I want to talk is just practical steps how to start praying boldly Now. Again, I'm going to refer back to episode 83 of the power prayer. You guys can go back there and I'm just going to reiterate some of the points from that. But also these are points that Craig gives himself from the book. He gives us some practical steps in dangerous prayers that I just want to share with you today.

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First, start small. If praying search me or break me feels too big right now, start with something smaller, but still bold. Ask God to reveal just one area where he wants to work in your life and that can be something. Maybe you are really struggling in your marriage right now and the search me or break me of like God. You know, who do I need to be, as a wife or as a husband, as a spouse, to meet the needs of my loved one? There's lots that can go on in there of the break me and search me. Maybe you can start small by just saying Lord, show me how I can love my spouse more effectively Starting small.

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The next thing is to be specific. Instead of general prayers, get specific about what you're asking God to do in your life. Bold prayers often come with clear intentions, and this goes back. I'm going to throw the whole smart goal concept of here. When you write a goal out, this can go with writing the prayer out. Is it specific, is it measurable? Is it attainable, is it timely? Um, now, all that doesn't apply to praying, because God is in his own time and are all prayers attainable? No, when we pray, lord, help me to you know, win the lotto. Like that's not attainable, right, and God's like that's not in your future. However, when we are specific in our prayers and have clear intentions, I think those bold prayers just work that much more effectively.

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All right, the third thing to do in praying boldly would be to be open to the unexpected. This one you might be like nah, I'm cool, leslie, I'm that type A, you know planner person like I am and you're like the unexpected, like that doesn't fit into my agenda. But when you pray, send me, you gotta be ready, girl. You gotta be ready for God to call you into situations that you would not have planned for yourself. It was not on my vision board, let me tell you, to join the prayer team this year. It wasn't. But I said send me. And God was like nope, you're going to be in the prayer team now, leslie. And I was like okay, you just have to trust that he knows the bigger picture.

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And the fourth thing that we can do to start praying boldly is to pray with others. Sometimes bold prayers are easier when we pray with them in community and we can share our prayers with trusted friends or family who can support you. And I will tell you all I am a champion to be a prayer warrior for you. I've shared this on many episodes before. You can DM me on Instagram. You can DM me on Instagram. You can send me an email. You can even text me directly. Here on the podcast channel there is a little button that says text me. You can send me a message If you're watching on YouTube. If you're okay to have a community of people pray for you, you can drop your prayers directly here in the comments. If it is something more personal, that you just want to ask for me to pray, I am confidential in all your prayers. Just know that, please. You can send me a direct message and all my contact information is in the show notes on how you can reach out to me. But know that creating a community of trusted people to pray with you is such a big step in praying boldly.

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Now, as we wrap up, I just want to challenge you to pick one of these prayers to start Search me, break me or send me and make it a part of your daily prayer life this next week. Ask God to stretch your faith, grow you in ways that you didn't expect and lead you into a deeper relationship with him. The book Dangerous Prayers isn't about getting quick answers from God. It's about becoming the kind of person that God can use in a powerful way, and that starts with bold and yes, dangerous prayers. And I want to encourage you to go out and get Craig Rochelle's book.

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I personally listened to it on audible.

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It was an audible book that I went and listened to, and what's great with his book is that you also can get a supplemental PDF that comes with a list of prayers for you to read through, and y'all I wanted to share with you.

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I have it up here on my iPad, but it is a book of prayers and there's like prayers for unity, prayers for purpose, prayers of blessing, prayers for guidance, prayers for boldness, prayer of salvation and help, and then there are scripture that go along with it also, and this little prayer book has been such a resource and has helped for me to level up my prayer life, so I want to really encourage you to go get the book. Thank you so much for joining me on just this journey and talking through some dangerous prayers. I hope that it's challenged you like it's challenged me, and please go out and share this episode with a friend, someone that maybe you want them to be your prayer warrior, someone that could use this episode to encourage them and stretch them in your prayer life also. Until next time, friend, keep praying boldly, keep trusting God and go chase joy.