Episode 128: Hearing God about praying for big events

Sep 27, 2026 | 0 comments

Episode Description:

What do you pray for the big events in your life? What is God’s heart for those events? Do you limit God by what you are praying for? Join Gary & me as we share what we’re hearing from God about what to pray for various big events in our lives, along with some principles to keep in mind.

Episode Notes:

First Principle: Submit our desires to God

  • Don’t want to be controlling.
  • Share everything with God – He already knows anyway.
  • Psalm 37:4 “Take delight in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart.”
    Heart transformation: the more we focus on God and take delight in Him, the purer our desires become.
  • Jeremiah 29:11-12 “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.”

Second Principle: Stop and ask God what He wants as an outcome

  • Stop. Quiet the noise around and within.
  • Inner peace.
  • Align with God’s desires.
  • Do I limit God working in my life?

Third Principle: Learn from others’ prayers.

  • I initially would have said, ‘listen to others praying’, but we can learn from the ancient fathers of the faith.
  • Dr Roland Ashby (@dr.roland_ashby), e.g., praying for our daughter’s marriage –
    • not to repeat our mistakes
    • against anyone coming between Sarah and Cooper

Fourth Principle: Pray BIG prayers

  • James 5:16b-18 (The Message version): “The prayer of a person living right with God is something powerful to be reckoned with. Elijah, for instance, human just like us, prayed hard that it wouldn’t rain, and it didn’t—not a drop for three and a half years. Then he prayed that it would rain, and it did. The showers came and everything started growing again.”
  • Going to Cambodia on a mission trip. Prayed that the temperature would drop 10 degrees Celsius. It did for a week.
  • 1 John 5:14 “This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.”
  • John 14:12-14 “Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.”
  • You get what you expect. Expect BIG things. God created the universe. He raised the dead. He healed the sick, made blind eyes see. He can do anything.
  • Ephesians 3:20 “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us” Message version – “God can do anything, you know—far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams!”
  • George Müller once said, “Faith doesn’t operate in the realm of the possible. There is no glory for God in that which is humanly possible. Faith begins where man’s power ends”. This was a man who ran an orphanage in One day the housemother came to inform George, “The children are dressed and ready for school. But there is no food for them to eat.” George asked her to take the 300 children into the dining room and have them sit at the tables. He thanked God for the food and waited. George knew God would provide food for the children as he always did. Within minutes, a baker knocked on the door. “Mr Muller,” he said, “last night I could not sleep. Somehow, I knew that you would need bread this morning. I got up and baked three batches for you. I will bring it in.”  Soon, there was another knock at the door. It was the milkman. His cart had broken down in front of the orphanage. The milk would spoil by the time the wheel was fixed. He asked George if he could use some free milk. George smiled as the milkman brought in ten large cans of milk. It was just enough for the 300 thirsty children.”
  • Do I limit God’s work in my life?

Summary:

  1. Submit our desires to God.
  2. Stop and ask God what He wants as an outcome.
  3. Learn from others’ prayers.
  4. Pray BIG prayers.

Prophetic activation:

Turn your heart and thoughts to Father God and ask Him:

  • “God, can You please bring to mind a big event I’m involved in in these next few months?”
  • “God, can You please reveal to me Your heart for that event?”

Time Stamps:

[1:20] – Gary & Jane share how they have heard God this week.

[5:18] – First Principle: Submit our desires to God.

[7:46] – Second Principle: Stop and ask God what He wants as an outcome.

[8:44] – Third Principle: Learn from others’ prayers.

[11:11] – Fourth Principle: Pray BIG prayers.

[17:14] – Summary

[17:38] – Prophetic activation.

[18:40] – Gary & Jane share a prophetic word for a listener.

[20:42] – Gary prays for you.

Resources / Links Mentioned:

Bible Verses Mentioned:

  • Psalm 37:4
  • Jeremiah 29:11-12
  • James 5:16b-18
  • 1 John 5:14
  • John 14:12-14
  • Ephesians 3:20

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