Pray Big Prayers

Do you listen to people's prayer requests? I mean, do we really listen to what is being said and reflect on what is being left unsaid?

I've come to the conclusion that either A) we don't want to risk overwhelming God with the weighty, big prayers, or B) our prayers are too small and narrow.

God is not JUST the God of one specific city, state, country, or even one world. He is the God of the Universe.

Yet, if our prayers were to light up a map, not based on where we were physically standing or sitting while we were praying, but based on where we praying for, how many prayers would be outside of our country or even our own city?

We need to pray big prayers.
Pray for the lost to be found.
Pray for slavery to end.
Pray for the persecuted to endure faithfully and lovingly bear witness to Christ during their trials.
Pray for their persecutors to become family through Jesus.

We should pray for the small things we see and encounter in our daily lives, but that doesn't mean that we are absolved from praying big prayers as well.

Now this isn't to say that we shouldn't pray small prayers, but rather we should pray big prayers alongside them.

For example:

Don't just pray for... abortion to end the Church in your country forgiveness for sins physical healing blessings your friends, family, and leaders Christians the enslaved victims those a part of your nationality kind people those killed or hurt by terrorism the persecuted Church us

But also pray for... all killing to be stopped the global Church deliverance & the power to overcome habits/tendencies/sins passed through generations spiritual healing to be a blessing to others your enemies those of other faiths to come to know the Lord their enslavers their perpetrators  refugees and immigrants jerks terrorists the persecuted mosque/temple/synagogue/shrine them