Marc Estes

I came across this daring prayer written by Sir Francis Drake, that challenged me deeply. To be honest, to pray a prayer of this magnitude will have huge ramifications. However, the challenges you may face in praying such a prayer, just might make you the person you are intended to be. God often times gets us to do what we don’t want to do, that we might become who we were destined to become. Often times a cost is attached. My charge to you today… pray this pray and then hold on for what God will do for you!

“Disturb us, Lord, when we are too well pleased with ourselves, when our dreams have come true because we have dreamed too little, when we arrive safely because we have sailed too close to the shore.

Disturb us, Lord, when with the abundance of things we possess, we have lost our thirst for the waters of life; having fallen in love with life, we have ceased to dream of eternity; and in our efforts to build a new earth, we have allowed our vision of the new Heaven to dim.

Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly, to venture on wider seas where storms will show your mastery; where losing sight of land, we shall find the stars. We ask you to push back the horizons of our hopes; and to push into the future in strength, courage, hope, and love.”