Dangerous Prayers, Part 3: The Most Dangerous Prayer: Break My Heart

Life.Church with Craig Groeschel

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🗓️ 23 February 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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The thought of asking God to break your heart might sound a bit dangerous—and that’s because it is. In this message, Pastor Craig Groeschel introduces a prayer meant to align your heart with God’s, so you can begin to live in His truth and righteousness. Find out why asking God to break your heart could change your life forever.

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0:00.0	Hey, I wonder who's ready to be challenged today at all of our churches. Are you ready?
0:07.3	We are in a message series based on the content of my newest book. It's called Dangerous
0:13.3	Prayers. The subtitle is because following Jesus was never meant to be safe. We've looked at two
0:21.1	dangerous prayers in the message series in the first week. We talked about praying for boldness.
0:26.4	God make me bold. Last week we paused and asked God to speak to us, speak to me, Lord.
0:35.3	The prayer that we're going to look at today, and I'm going to invite you if you have the courage
0:41.1	to pray, to pray every single day this week, maybe the most dangerous prayer, and I want to warn you,
0:49.5	you probably won't like this prayer. Some of you very likely will refuse to pray this very dangerous
1:00.0	prayer. It is not a common prayer. It is not an easy prayer. It doesn't match the normal safe
1:11.2	prayers that many of us pray. It's not consistent with the God should make your life easy,
1:19.9	version of Americanized, popularized Christianity. I like the easy prayers and it's okay to pray them.
1:28.4	I like the safe prayers. It's okay to pray them. God keep me safe. I want to be safe. God bless me.
1:35.0	I want to be blessed. God help me have a nice and an easy day. I want to have a nice and an easy
1:40.7	day because the truth is honestly I don't want to be inconvenienced. I don't want to be interrupted.
1:47.6	I don't want to face any challenges. In other words, God, if you really love me, give me a hassle
1:54.7	free day with good food, green lights, nice people, well-behaved kids, and no zits on the important days.
2:05.4	God in the name of the Father, Son of Holy Spirit just don't let me have a zit on prom day,
2:09.3	whatever you do, if you love me, God, no zit on the front of my nose, right? This prayer is not a safe
2:17.5	prayer. It's one of the most dangerous prayers. If you pray this prayer, God will answer this prayer
2:25.0	and you might feel frustrated. You will become more uncomfortable. Life may be harder. Chances are
2:36.4	really good. It won't be easier. I want to invite you to join me in praying a dangerous prayer
2:44.8	because following Jesus was never meant to be safe. The prayer that we're going to pray this
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