A quote I’ve carried with me for over a week: Prayer is rebellions against the status quo. 

As I was reading through Isaiah today, and came to chapter 54, I noticed in my margins I had written, “No more status quo.”

These were the verses:

Sing, barren woman who has borne no child;
break forth into singing and cry out,
you who were never in labor,
for the children of the wife who has been deserted will be more numerous than the children of the married, says the Lord.
² Enlarge the site of your tent,
and stretch out the drapes of your dwellings;
don’t hold back.
Lengthen your tent ropes and strengthen your stakes.
³     To the right and to the left you will burst out,
and your children will possess the nations’ land
and settle their desolate cities. (Isa. 54:1-3, CEB)

It is time to be fed up with how things are. It is time to travail in prayer. It is time for new birth in prayer.