I believe that boldness is a spiritual power. I say that because I also believe that I tend to lack boldness and I tend not to pray for boldness.  

Then David crossed over to the other side of the valley to the top of the hill, a safe distance away, and shouted to Saul’s troops and to Abner, “Abner! Can you hear me?”

“Who is that shouting and waking up the king?” Abner asked

David answered, “Abner, aren’t you the greatest man in Israel? So why aren’t you protecting your master, the king? Just now someone entered the camp to kill your master. You failed in your duty, Abner! I swear by the living Lord that all of you deserve to die, because you have not protected your master, whom the Lord made king. Look! Where is the king’s spear? Where is the water jar that was right by his head?” 1 Samuel 26:13-16 GNT

When I read what David did, there is boldness written all over this story. I am inspired to come to terms that my actions tell the story of the boldness that God has placed in me when I pray for it.

It may be this very thing that Paul was thinking about when he talked about what prayer and fasting would look like in a marriage.

He talks about a fasting that consists of repentance preparing one for prayer, just before undertaking an important matter. Once prepared, the prayer becomes intense and so important that I end up leaving off everything else. The end result is a new boldness.

Do not deny yourselves to each other, unless you first agree to do so for a while in order to spend your time in prayer; but then resume normal marital relations. In this way you will be kept from giving in to Satan’s temptation because of your lack of self-control. – 1 Corinthians 7:5 GNT

I am sure that I might be tempted to read that the use of the marriage bed may be a hindrance to such prayer but I am sure not any worse than food or drink would be. But I am sure he is encouraging me to consider wisely when it is time to eat, drink and to fast.

I am sure that this type of prayer does not relate or maybe better stated, I do not want to relate to it. That would explain the lack of boldness in my Christian world.

Is it not true that my life of distress is so much on my mind that it is a miracle, in of itself, that I get to pray at all? The Psalm gives me a glimpse in how I can respond.

Why am I so sad?

    Why am I so troubled?

I will put my hope in God,

    and once again I will praise him,

    my savior and my God. – Psalm 42:5 GNT

The journey of this psalm indicate that circumstances have not changed, but in prayer, the individual doing the praying has changed.

O God, declare me innocent,

    and defend my cause against the ungodly;

    deliver me from lying and evil people!

Send your light and your truth;

    may they lead me

    and bring me back to Zion, your sacred hill,^[a]

    and to your Temple, where you live. – Psalm 43:1,3 GNT

This was not a prayer from a point of view from 10,000 feet above and it definitely was not rhetorical. This was a prayer to embody God’s own qualities and I believe it was one that included a desire to be bold. God intended to make sure this prayer was fulfilled.

One day, in the city of New York—oh, what a day!—I cannot describe it, I seldom refer to it; it is almost too sacred an experience to name…. I can only say that God revealed himself to me, and I had such an experience of his love that I had to ask him to stay his hand. I went to preaching again. The sermons were not different; I did not present any new truths, and yet hundreds were converted. I would not now be placed back where I was before that blessed experience if you should give me all the world—it would be small dust in the balance. (W. R. Moody, The Life of D. L. Moody, New York: 1900, p. 149)