In Matthew 9 we have the story of the woman dealing with disease for all that time and hearing that Jesus was nearby. She reached out. She pressed in. She overcame all societal barriers to give one last-gasp effort for healing.

I need that shameless attitude in my own life. There needs to be more than boldness. There needs to be an attitude of desperation. It’s not to just believe God for “big things.” It’s to simply cry out, “Lord, I have to touch you!”

There is a need to move past the barriers that hold me back in prayer. I need to move past the thoughts that I don’t have too much to ask, or he doesn’t want to hear, or I have too much junk in my life.

I need a shameless audacity in my prayer that cries out with complete desperation. I need him. I need him more than air. And I need to cry out to him with shameless desperation. No “big dreams” to bring to him today. Just a desperation for his presence and his provision.

Let me have this woman’s desperation!