Bigger

What are you asking God for today? What do you imagine He will do in your situation? My friend, you need to pray bolder and imagine bigger. Why do I say that? Because the Bible says, “Now, to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine . . .” (Eph 3:20). Whatever you’re asking, and however you think God will move, is so much less than He has in mind.
Take the disciples. When Jesus called Peter and Andrew, they were content to spend their lives casting nets over the side of a boat as fishermen. Jesus said, “Come, follow me, and I will make you fishers of men” (Matt 4:19). They had no idea how big that might be, but they were the first seeds of God’s plan to change the world. Even after spending more than three years in ministry with Him, they still had such a small vision of who He was and what He came to do. After His resurrection, he met two of His disciples walking from Jerusalem to Emmaus. When He asked them what they were discussing, they explained that they were talking about “Jesus of Nazareth” (I almost envision the Lord chuckling to Himself), who had died just three days before. They said, “We had hoped that He was the one who was going to redeem Israel” (Luke 24:13-21). But they were thinking too small because Jesus came to redeem all of mankind, not just one nation.
But there’s something else I want you to see – something God revealed to me I’d never seen before. Look back at Ephesians 3:20 – what is the first word? “Now.” Now indicates a continuation of the previous thought. What was Paul’s previous thought? He was praying to the Father for the believers in Ephesus, that they might be strengthened with the power of His Spirit, that they would have faith, and that they would be “rooted and established in love” and “grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ” and know this “love that surpasses knowledge.” And get this: that they “may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God” (Eph. 3:14-19).
Then he said, “God is able to do more than all [I’m] asking.” Sit in that for a minute. God promises immeasurable love, unfathomable knowledge, and incalculable power. Can you imagine how the Lord could move through us if we believed God for all that? Imagine bigger, Beloved, this is God we’re talking about.