Do you ever have thoughts that kind of go like this: “Maybe you shouldn't ask God for so much. Maybe you should just be content with what you've got, be thankful, and stop asking God for so many things.” Many of us had parents who, when we were younger, said things like, “You need to stop asking for so much and be thankful for what you have.” And so we sort of think that our Heavenly Father probably says things like that to us as well.

Yet when I look at the Scriptures, I really can't think of a time when God ever said to one of His kids, “Stop asking Me for so much.” I can't think of a time when God ever says, “you need to think smaller—you need to pray for smaller things or don’t pray for so much.” But rather, what you see in the Scriptures is God constantly encouraging His people to pray—pray more, ask for greater things, believe Him for bigger things.
 
For example, in Psalm 81:10 the Scripture says, I am the Lord your God, who brought you up out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth and I will fill it.

When I read that Scripture, I almost expect it to say, “I am the Lord your God who brought you up out of Egypt—so don't ask Me for anything else,” or “I am the Lord your God who brought you out of  Egypt—so be content with that; isn't that enough for you?” I expected the verse to say, “I brought you up out of Egypt, so don't expect Me to do a whole lot more for you.”

But instead, God said, “I brought you up out of Egypt. Do you remember that? Do you remember how I just decimated that land in order to show you My power and show them My power? Do you not remember how with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm I struck that land over and over again? With the blast of my nostrils, I opened the Red Sea so that you could walk across on dry land. I provided for you in the desert, and I gave you a homeland and caused the tribes to be defeated before you who were stronger than you. Do you not remember that?”

So in light of that, pray for things that are in keeping with My power. Ask Me for greater things. Open wide your mouth and I will fill it. I believe that if you would ask the Holy Spirit to guide you and show you what God wants you to pray for, I believe it would be for bigger things than you're asking for now. So pray for greater things.

God commands us to ask Him for greater things than we are asking for. 

1. Will you pray for God to use our church’s Advancing the Kingdom emphasis to help win 100,000 souls to Jesus in the next three years?
2. Pray that through our Advancing the Kingdom emphasis we can be a part of starting 1000 churches over the next three years. 
3. Pray that through our Advancing the Kingdom emphasis 1000 pastors will be trained and equipped to start new churches and shepherd them to make disciples.