SURPRISE ME - A 30-DAY FAITH EXPERIMENT // Terry Esau

Title:		Balloons
Read:		Ravi Zacharias said, “Prayerlessness is the scavenger of wonder.” Interesting. I saw a hot-air balloon yesterday and it made me think of prayer. Imagine that we are hot-air balloons and prayer is the hot air. And what if the sky is where all the surprises hang out? Our prayers fill our balloons, the containers of our souls, sending us straight into the clouds of surprise and wonder. We bump into them. We can feel them, touch them. From our vantage point these surprises are tangible and real. But when the prayers stop, we lose loft, we lose shape, perspective. We lose proximity to the sky-full of surprises because the gravity of prayerlessness has pulled us down. We can still see the surprises, but they’re so far above us that they’re barely discernible. They look suspiciously like circumstances. When we stop praying, our lives get deflated—and God-incidences become co-incidences. Stay aloft. Keep praying, “Surprise me, God.”

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