“God won’t answer 10o percent of the prayers you don’t pray.”- Mark Batterson
As Mark Batterson concludes Chapter 10 of The Grave Robber, he observes that even though miraculous healing is the exception rather than the rule, if we assume God’s answer will be no, we don’t give Him a chance to say yes.
Pastor Batterson says we would be incredulous if a major league baseball player refused to step into the batter’s box because he didn’t get a hit every time up. Yet, Mark emphasizes, that is how many of us approach prayer- “we let a few strikeouts keep us from swinging for the fences.”
To experience the miraculous, the author notes that we must come to terms with the fact that the particulars- who, what, when, where, and how- aren’t up to us. We can’t answer our own prayers. Furthermore, most miracles in the Bible seem to happen to people who make the fewest assumptions. They don’t know what God can’t do. Mark explains:
“God is able. That’s my only assumption. And any other assumption is a false assumption. He is a God who can make the impossible possible. . . . God doesn’t always answer my prayers how I want or when I want, but I live with an unshakable conviction that God is able.”
We can’t keep doing the same thing if we want God to do a new thing. We need only one assumption: God is able.
Today’s question: What false assumptions have you made following your vocation loss? Please share.
Tomorrow’s blog: “Point-blank questions”
