What would happen if we prayed with boldness and persistence, and asked God to be glorified in all things?

Manny Mill took on the challenge and encourages us with insight from his book . He helps us catch a new vision for bold prayers by relying on God and His word.

The busyness of life tends to rob us of our daily devotion to prayer and attempts to steal away our intimacy with God.

“Even after 20 years of going into the jails, speaking in churches and writing these books, I got diverted; I drifted.”

“I began to think, ‘Hey, now I went to Wheaton college, I have a B.A. degree, a master’s degree, look at all the success that I am having here.’ So I stopped praying and began to depend on myself. What I did was I questioned the Holy Spirit.”

Until a car accident changed the course of his life.

“God had to use my own wife to almost lose her life and lose a few fingers on her left hand by being hit by another lady here in Wheaton and she was inside that vehicle for 90 minutes bleeding.

“God had to use that very dramatic experience to begin to awaken me. I was treating my Father as a paramedic.”

Similar to Manny’s experience, we all have a tendency to run to God only when we need Him to fulfill our needs, rather than a daily pursuit of glorifying His name.

“Many of us think that we can come to God whenever we want to. Many of us have needs, many of us has things that we want God to help us with. Many of us, I used to do it, only came to Him when we were in need of the Father.”

“Many people come to Jesus because we want the benefits but we don’t want the responsibility. In other words, we want Christ but we don’t want the cross. We don’t want to be responsible. When things get tough then we blame God for it because we are not obeying Him.”

As Christians, it’s our responsibility to pray through all circumstances. Manny reminds us that the foundation of our prayer life should be built on the Word of God.

“We can never really intercede for anybody, not even for ourselves, unless we fuel it with God’s word.”

God’s word carries power.

“It is God’s word that is sharper than a two-edged sword. It is God’s Word that is going to really pierce our hearts and infuse us with that abundant faith, which is going to lead us to the abundant life that Jesus actually tells us that he’s going to give us because Jesus is also experiencing this abundant life.”

“God the Father is inviting you and I to enter into this perpetual love affair that Jesus has with the Father.”

Instead of praying to our Father only when we want something, we are invited to boldly and persistently approach the throne of grace and ask, ‘Hallowed be thy Name.’ 

Highlight: ‘Hallowed be thy Name’

Praying with power