Defcon Five Mode

My wife Cheryl is six years cancer-free.  I remember 9-11-06 just like it was yesterday. It was the day she was diagnosed with breast cancer and would later require a double mastectomy.

Those were desperate days!  I had not yet met my historical friend Honi the Circle Maker, but I know exactly the desperation he felt when praying to God in the face of a deadly drought.  He couldn’t stand the situation any longer, so he went into Defcon Five mode. He drew a circle from where he would launch his attack. 

As the old adage goes, “Desperate times call for desperate measures.”  Nowhere can one face desperate times more than they can face to face with God in prayer.  And every prayer is a calculated risk from which God sometimes calls us to up the ante, requiring audacious prayer.

“I tell you, even though he will not get up and give you the bread because of friendship, yet because of your shameless audacity he will surely get up and give you as much as you need.”  Luke 11:8 (Today’s New International Version)

When you stand by the bedside of a wife, husband, child, parent, sibling or friend and see medical paraphernalia attached to and surrounding them, being anything less than shameless or audacious is no longer an option! You’re in the battle, and you’ll fight hell and all its henchmen if necessary to see victory.

Please remember the reason for our journey and our destination.  We’re 34 days from Easter, but in that many days we will stand at the empty tomb and be grateful Jesus was shamelessly audacious toward us by providing his body and blood for payment for our sins in order to secure our salvation.  If He would be that kind of man, why can’t I?

Stop pouting about unanswered prayers in your past (I mean it, do you hear me?!)  Get into your circle and stay there in shameless audacity until you see God move.  Then you will understand the truth that desperate times require shameless audacity in your circle of prayer.

I’ll meet you at the Throne,

Pastor George