The Audacity of Prayer
Prayer is not a polite request offered to an indifferent heaven, it is the heartbeat of relationship, the furnace of reverence, and the launchpad of God-given authority. In a message titled: “The Audacity of Prayer,” Apostle Mike Signorelli breaks down Luke 11 and dares believers to pray with shameless boldness and have the kind of audacity that can change God’s mind and shift history.
Prayer and science confirm what God established. Long before labs produced data, heaven recorded results. In fact, Apostle Mike says modern research keeps confirming what God established. The following are several scientific studies referenced in the sermon that have done just that:
With studies like this, it is sad that we do not discipline ourselves more to pray regularly. The piercing reality is that many Christians do not know how to pray because they don’t know who they’re praying to, they know religion, they know performance, they know emergency pleas. But they don’t know God.
We have daily rituals. We take vitamins. We won’t skip our morning caffeine. We get our workouts in. But prayer gets postponed, ignored, and treated like an optional supplement instead of a daily source of spiritual sustenance. We fuel our bodies but starve our spirits. America banned prayer from public schools and now anxiety and violence is at an all-time high.
Prayer Has a Template
Luke 11 shows Jesus praying every day in a certain place. He wasn’t fueled by espresso but by intimacy. When the disciples asked, “Lord, teach us to pray,” Jesus offered a template for them.
Relationship – “Father…”
The Lord’s Prayer begins with Abba, which means father and signifies a relationship. Before you ask for anything, you must remember who you’re speaking to. He is not a distant deity; He is Abba—our loving Father. This beginning is not just about posture, it’s about position. You don’t pray to earn relationship; you pray from relationship.Prayer shouldn't be a 911 emergency call; it should be an intimate conversation you have with your loving Father.
Reverence – “Hallowed be Your name.”
Before petitioning God for what you want, practice honoring Him, sharing adoration. Worship uproots entitlement and gives you the proper perspective of who we are in relation to God. "Holy is Your Name" is a declaration of majesty and His power. We don't come into prayer throwing spiritual temper tantrums because God didn’t do what we demanded. We come low. We come humbly. We come recognizing that He is God and we are not. And when we reverence Him, something shifts. Prayer stops being about changing God and becomes about being changed by God.“God Almighty is not changing our circumstances until we start allowing our circumstances to change us,” Apostle Mike stated.
Release Control – “Your kingdom come… Your will be done.”
Prayer is where we drop our agenda and pick up heaven’s own. Jesus modeled surrender: "Not my will, but Yours be done." Many believers are frustrated in prayer because they’re trying to pull heaven into their own agenda instead of aligning themselves with heaven’s agenda.Mature prayer doesn’t manipulate God; it mirrors Christ.
Focus on the Present – “Give us each day our daily bread.”
We obsess over the past. Depression anchors us in what was. We fear the future. Anxiety drowns us in what-ifs. But prayer? Prayer brings us into the present and makes it a present. Today’s bread. Today’s grace. Today’s strength!
“Yesterday’s bread is moldy. Tomorrow’s bread is still in the form of ingredients,” Apostle Mike explained. Prayer brings believers into the now—where God meets us, shapes us, and walks with us.
Daily Forgiveness – “Forgive us… as we forgive.”
Unforgiveness poisons the one praying more than the offender. In an age of cancel culture and comment section warfare, forgiveness is rare—but it's still required.Protection & Transformation – “Lead us not into temptation…”
God never leads us into sin, but He’ll allow the devil to forge a warrior.In an age of cancel culture and comment section warfare, forgiveness is rare—but it's still required.
“Who decides you’re finished praying—your flesh or the Holy Spirit?” Apostle Mike asks. Pray until your flesh taps out.
Shameless Audacity
Most people turn to prayer during emergencies but children of God move in authority—praying through a trial until the trial rewrites them. Take prayer seriously. Build an altar – Maybe it’s a closet, bathroom, or driver’s seat before you enter the house. Pray daily – You won’t skip a latte so do not skip a conversation with God. Stay until He’s done – Sometimes you finish in five minutes; other times, fifty just stay in the moment until you know God is done.
In scripture, Jesus follows the Lord’s Prayer with a story found in Luke 11:5-8. In the parable a man bangs on a friend’s door at midnight demanding bread. The friend caves in and helps the man—not because of friendship but because of the man’s shameless audacity to come to his door at midnight.
“… Yet because of your shameless audacity, he will surely get up and give you as much as you need.” — Luke 11:8
Heroes of the faith were audacious intercessors:
Moses persuades God to spare Israel.
Jacob wrestles, “I won’t let go until You bless me!”
Hannah prays so fiercely that the priest thinks she’s drunk.
Smith Wigglesworth raises his wife from the dead—three times
John G. Lake submitted his healing anointing to scientific testing
God isn't offended by your big asks—He's provoked by your small faith. If you’re going to be guilty of anything, let it be for believing too big, asking too boldly, dreaming too wildly. The Kingdom belongs to those who dare to knock at midnight. Faith moves mountains.
Apostle Mike confessed that he airs on the side of being the kind of believer who believes for more, pushing the boundaries – and God "will push you back over here in the seasons where you need to resign to what he's willing you to go through."
The V1 church leader made a plea to the radical ones. He charged us to pray daily, let scripture be your diet, forgive quickly, pound heaven’s door at midnight and ask bigger, believe wilder. May we be the audacious generation that fills the void that prayerlessness left.
Prayer is not a box to check—it’s the oxygen of your soul. Pray boldly. Pray persistently. Pray audaciously. Because the Kingdom doesn’t belong to the convenient—it belongs to the contending.
It's time to pray again, Saints!
About the Author
Jeannie Ortega Law is a chart-topping singer, evangelist, media personality and author from New York City. She can be reached on social media: @JeannieOrtega or emailed at Info@JeannieO.com
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