Give it to us today

SUMMARY: We often pray with a lack of faith, using generic and vague language to leave room for an escape clause in case our specific and identifiable miracle doesn't happen. This represents an act of mild spiritual cowardice. Instead, we should put meat in our prayers and submit bold and ambitious requests with specific dates, exercising faith in the Lord. God likes these kinds of prayers and actions that put him to the test. We must trust in the mercy and faithfulness of the Lord, and not doubt.

It takes a lot of faith to ask God for a specific and identifiable miracle that requires a verifiable answer in time and space. Many times our prayers are generic and vague, secretly providing the Lord (or us!) A more or less honorable way out in case the miracle we ask for does not happen. By means of subtle language, we stretch the time frame in which the answer can be given, we make room for an answer in the natural plane, or we add "if it is your will", just in case! Ultimately, this represents an act of mild spiritual cowardice, and we all fall for that practice at some point or another.

By this we do not mean that we do not recognize the sovereignty of the Lord, or that we intend to force him to answer our prayers in only one way. Rather, we are referring to those times when this kind of "escape clause" stems from a lack of faith on our part, from a doubt as to whether God really still works miracles.