Praying for the Holy Spirit

In College, I thought my prayer life was ok. Prayed. Repented. Prayed for the world. Prayed for my family. Prayed for my friends. Prayed for my church. The list goes on.

Lately, I've been attending a church called Joy Manhattan. I guess you can say they are a charasmatic church. However on one Sunday evening, the pastor encouraged everyone to pray for someone who has some sort of physical ailment. He was guiding the congregation on how to pray. At first, my prideful stubborn heart was like, "WTF IS THIS SH*T? I'M NOT A F*CKING KID." Something along those lines. Bottom line, I did not participate because #1, I don't necessarily believe in anyone laying their hands on someone and #2, I just felt like it was too fake. But basically he was trying to ask the Holy Spirit to heal some of these people by prayer.

I left during the end of it. I was like forget this. I'm not doing this. This is not very biblical.

Later on during the week, I was listening to Christian music at work and started praying. I remembered the sermon on Sunday and how the congregation was praying for healing. Sometimes you need time to soak things in but the one thing that I came out with from that Sunday was, there is nothing wrong praying those leap of faith type prayers.

So I started praying this prayer. "Lord send your Holy Spirit into this office. Let your Spirit touch hearts in this office." I wasn't expecting revival but I wanted to lay a foundation in this office. I wanted Jesus to be the center of this office.

Usually my prayers were "Lord be with this office. May you bless co worker A, co worker B, etc. But there was a difference in my prayer. I really believed that God can change this office. I really believed that God can change this world. Instead of just saying it, I actually had faith that God can do it. I believed in the small things but did I believe in the big things. Knowing that God can do anything, God can do big things, shouldn't I be more passionate about my prayers? Shouldn't I pray with more fire? More intensity? More faith? Werd.

Matthew 17:20

New International Version (NIV)

²⁰ He replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”