How Big Are Your Prayers?

Dearly beloved congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ, one of the most convicting questions we Christians can be asked is “How big is your God?” How much power and control does your God exercise? If you lose your keys, is your God big enough to handle it? How about if you lose your job — or even your child? How big is your God? The smaller your God, the bigger your problems — and vice versa. But parallel to that question regarding the size of the God you worship comes the question I want to address in today’s sermon. How big are your prayers? This prayer that we see the apostle Paul praying in Ephesians 3 is a gigantic prayer, one of the biggest that can be found anywhere in Scripture. This prayer asks for some absolutely amazing things. And based on the principle that we ought to imitate the apostle Paul, who says repeatedly “follow me as I follow Christ,” we can understand that we ought to pray like he prayed. The reason he wrote down this prayer was not just so that God could hear it and answer it, but so that we too would learn to pray in this way. What I hope to show you today is that we need to pray bigger prayers, prayers that measure up to the standard of the Father’s wealth.