Now, certainly, God does sovereignly intervene at times in our circumstances. And it’s wonderful when He does. But you will find that most often God’s work is not just a matter of uninvited divine intervention. Instead, God moves in response to people praying and seeking His face.

That kind of prayer is what I call “possibility praying.”

Our part is to believe and to pray, and when we do, God responds to that. Both are parts of the equation. And when it comes to possibility praying, your thinking and your believing will either hinder you and hinder God, or they will set the stage for great things to happen.

Psalm 78:41 reminds us we can hinder God.  In talking about the Israelites, it says, “Yes, again and again they tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.”

The Hebrew word limited literally means “to mark something, to scratch it deep… to scratch a line.” The idea is that the Israelites created a border for God’s blessing.  It’s like they took a magic marker to the vessel of God’s blessing, marked a line all the way around it, and said, “Okay, God, bless us, but only this far. We’re setting a mark as to how far You can go in our lives.”

Again and again they limited the Holy One of Israel. And we have to ask, are we doing that, too? Are we limiting God by not doing our part in believing and praying?

You have a part to play in God’s work in your life. You must believe… and you must pray… trusting God to then do His part. When you do, you will release the power of possibility praying in your life!

Answers with Bayless Conley broadcasts practical teachings of the Bible to its viewers in a non-religious way. For years, Bayless Conley struggled with drugs and alcohol while searching for answers. It was not until he was more than 20 years of age that a 12-year-old boy showed him the powerful reality of a relationship with Christ. Since 1979, the Lord has opened the television airwaves to the Answers program, which currently airs each week in more than 100 nations around the world.