Hi God, I know you’re my good good Father, and you love it when I come to you in faith with my requests. Sometimes when I start to ask you for stuff…I chicken out! I feel like I might be bothering you with trivial things. After all, you probably have a lot more important things to do. You might look at my requests and think they were, well, dumb. I feel like I should be deserving of what I ask for. So, I don’t ask because I know what I’ve done and what I feel like I deserve. So, I’m not going to wait. I’m going to boldly approach the throne of grace and ask for things I want or need. I’ll boldly ask and I won’t t hold back God. I’m going to treat you like the “exceedingly, abundantly above-all-I-can-ask-think-or-imagine God” you say you are. Instead of praying for a promotion, I’ll ask to run the whole company.Instead of praying for money to rent a house I’ll ask to own my own house.I guess I feel like some things I ask for are selfish. But, over and over, your Word tells me to ask you for things. “Ask, and it will be given to you;” Matthew 7:7 “Yet you do not have because you do not ask.” James 4:2 “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.” John 15:7 I know I’ve been holding back, but not anymore. Not today. Today I’m going to have audacious faith— bold faith! Believe-God-is-bigger-than-I-can-even-imagine faith!!! Today I’m not letting the enemy hold me back from pleasing you, and I will put my faith and hope in you on display. I take you at your Word, and I ask you for whatever I want and need. I believe in you enough to ask for big things. I’m not going to be nervous or timid anymore. “do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.” ‭‭Philippians‬ ‭4:6‬ ‭ESV‬‬ “And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”” ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭21:22‬ ‭ESV‬‬ “Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.” ‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭4:16‬ ‭ESV‬‬ “Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,” ‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭3:20‬ ‭ESV‬‬