Being scared about seeing what God may be doing or could do with me or through me because I prayed is something that cannot stop me. I need to embrace the possibilities.
Long ago the Lord made a road through the sea,
a path through the swirling waters.
He led a mighty army to destruction,
an army of chariots and horses.
Down they fell, never to rise,
snuffed out like the flame of a lamp!But the Lord says,
“Do not cling to events of the past
or dwell on what happened long ago.
Watch for the new thing I am going to do.
It is happening already—you can see it now!
I will make a road through the wilderness
and give you streams of water there.
Even the wild animals will honor me;
jackals and ostriches will praise me
when I make rivers flow in the desert
to give water to my chosen people.
They are the people I made for myself,
and they will sing my praises!” – Isaiah 43:16-21 GNT
I do imagine, as I am praying, what God could do – but I never go this far – this is praying with the miraculous in mind. These are things that happen when I do not pray scared and as a result will be the testimony of people who have been prayed for and have experienced a divine intervention at that moment in their life.
I need to see God working in my life and the lives of those around me. It is possible that I need to see His hand reaching out with love and grace and thinking about what that could look like. Then extend His hand, through prayer, to those around me. This kind of prayer gives me special unforgettable moments of faith.
During times of challenges, this kind of prayer will sustain me. I imagine being in the end times where persecution is coming or living in an area of the world today where followers of Jesus are already persecuted every day. If I heard them pray, would they be scared? I have heard their prayers and they are ones of endurance and faith so that they may proclaim the Gospel even in the midst of persecution. That is a challenge to my faith.
“Listen, then, if you have ears! Whoever is meant to be captured will surely be captured; whoever is meant to be killed by the sword will surely be killed by the sword. This calls for endurance and faith on the part of God’s people.” – Revelation 13:9-10 GNT
This is a call to endure, when it is not easy. I want to pray, not being scared, for my life or for the lives of others around the world for God will do amazing things – more than I can imagine.
Thus there is a difference between having an opinion that God is holy and gracious, and having a sense of the loveliness and beauty of that holiness and grace. There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness. A man may have the former, that knows not how honey tastes; but a man can’t have the latter, unless he has an idea of the taste of honey in his mind. So there is a difference between believing that a person is beautiful, and having a sense of his beauty. The former may be obtained by hearsay, but the latter only by seeing the countenance. There is a wide difference between mere speculative, rational judging anything to be excellent, and having a sense of its sweetness, and beauty. The former rests only in the head, speculation only is concerned in it; but the heart is concerned in the latter. When the heart is sensible of the loveliness of a thing, that the idea of it is sweet and pleasant to his soul; which is a far different thing from having a rational opinion that is excellent. – Jonathan Edwards
The Practice of Prayer 