Stop Praying Small If You Want a Big Life
15 Jan 2026 · 26 min
Lori Harder explores Craig Groeschel's idea that real prayers demand transformation, not comfort. Three dangerous prayers: Search me, Break me, Send me. Big requests require you to change first.
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So if your manifestation doesn't scare you a little bit, it has no capability of transforming you. Hey everyone, welcome back to the podcast. It's time for another quickie because there's always time to fit in Inspiration. I have one of the biggest announcements that I feel like I have been able to make in a really long time. Are you ready? Buckle up. Are you driving? Are you literally buckled right now? Are you running? Can you find a seatbelt? Okay. If you have been thinking of joining our elite entrepreneur mastermind, this year is the first time that we are going to give every single member a full podcast episode of their own on Earn your happy. Now you can fly back in to record at my house to have the full studio experience. And if you don't know, I have been in the top 25 this year for quite a while now, which is so exciting. We're bouncing in and out of top 25 consistently. 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I'm like a little shaky even talking about it because it's a little scary. It's a little scary and I'll tell you why. So I recently came across a book called Dangerous Prayers. Now it's so weird how it came into my life. I was randomly reading my email and I got an email from the Bible app. Now I don't have the Bible app on my phone. I am not subscribed to their emails. Obviously, we know we get a bunch of different emails right now. But I was like, this is so weird. I like I'm not on the Bible app, like email list. And so one day when I feel like I really needed it, I clicked in and it kind of like had a scripture of the day or something. So I read the scripture. I was like, okay, whatever. And nothing like crazy or anything. And all of a sudden I see this little advertisement for this book and I click into the advertisement and there is a little clip from the book. And this paragraph of the clip from the book rocks my world. Now I'll tell you a little bit more More about that in just one second. But I immediately ordered the book. That's how much I was like, my gut and my soul says that I need this. So I click, I get the book. And I get the book because of the just magic of Amazon. Like the next day or the day after it was like, boom, it was at my doorstep. And I immediately started reading it because it's not too long of a read, it's a really easy read. And I start doing what this book is telling me to do. And every single day, I am watching major shifts. Now, the shifts are not necessarily comfortable. I'm giggling because I will tell you, it's like I'm getting miracles and I'm watching things that I know weren't going to work or sustainable. Also moving just as quick. So when I tell you that what I'm going to share with you is literally up to your own decision if you want to move forward with reading this book and actually doing what this is, or just on this podcast, because I'm going to give you some Cliff Notes. So today we're going to talk about the prayers and manifestations that will change your life if you're brave enough to become the person who can hold them. So I'm sure you've been in this place in your life because we are human, that you wonder, why isn't the universe giving me what I'm manifesting? Why isn't God answering my prayers? Like, you're just feeling so alone and like it's absolute crickets. And like, why am I even doing this? But here's the truth. You are being answered even in the silence. And you are being supported even in the silence. But you're being shaped before you're going to get that supply from God. So manifestation isn't magic. Manifestation is literally identity construction. Manifestation is identity creation. Because when you pray for something and when you script it, when you visualize it, when you put it on your vision board, when you speak it out loud, you're not just asking for the thing. I need you to get this. When you pray for something and put it on your vision board, you're not actually asking for the thing. You are asking to become the person who can hold and create the thing. This is why everybody gets so confused and pissed about the process. There's just an expectation hangover on the process by which we receive our blessings. So the universe is always delivering and building materials before it delivers the blessings. So it's always delivering our building materials that we need to become the person before it's going to deliver that blessing. So this is where we're going to enter dangerous prayers, right? We're going to talk about the book. I've had a lot of people ask me because I posted about this on social media. They're like, is it just a God book? I'm like, yeah, it actually is quite religious, and it's not necessarily the genre that. That I always read. But I will tell you that if you can just extract the lessons. I don't know if anybody is a, like, a religious person, but I grew up in a very restrictive religion, so I used to get kind of, like, rocked by different, like, very religious things. And now I can just kind of eat the fruit and spit out the seeds, as they say in biblical terms. So I love learning from everything. Now I'm just kind of like, okay, this book is very religious, but it has so much great stuff in it. And I'm such a spiritual person. I love God. I pray like a maniac. So this just took my prayers to another level. So enter danger prayers by Craig Groal. I think I'm saying that right? And he says, God doesn't respond to safe prayers, and the universe doesn't respond to safe manifestations either. The universe is going to respond to boldness, to clarity, to honesty, to depth, to being open, to absolute identity shifts, absolute ego deaths to courage. If your prayer doesn't stretch you, it can't expand you. So if your manifestation doesn't scare you a little bit, it has no capability of transforming you. Doesn't even want to deliver because it's like, that's really cute. You're praying for a good day. Okay, great job. Great job. I'm glad you prayed for a good day and you thanked me for your shelter, but what did you do to change the world? Like in the book, he asks if all of your prayers came true in the last seven days, what would actually shift for everybody and everyone in the world? Probably not a whole lot. Maybe you feel healthier. Maybe you know, you still are in your house, and maybe you had a good week. Maybe some of you are praying dangerous prayers, but if not, this is your invite. So most people want the blessing, but they don't want what it takes to become the person. They want the answer, but they certainly don't want to see what their life looks like when it's fully aligned to who they are. And they want the miracle, but they certainly do not want what it takes to mold themselves into the miracle. So they want the life, but they don't want the lifestyle. But here's the thing. Powerful prayers and powerful manifestations require you to evolve. They're going to require something to be stripped of your life and it ain't going to be comfortable. I'm just telling you that right now. I am not comfortable. I am, however, comfortable going to the next level on a rocket ship. And I hope that you come with me. I am on the rocket ship of my life. I don't even know what my next year type of level of blessing is going to bring. And I can feel it so deeply in my bones that it is going to be the wildest, biggest year and experience of my life over these next couple years, because I am in it and praying and manifesting dangerously large things right now. So I want to make this a little bit practical. So what you ask for dictates what you attract. So if you're asking for more abundance, you're going to manifest situations that force you to become better with money. You might literally get knocked on your ass. You might see red in your bank account. Like, it may not be good because you might be like, holy. I literally have to get good with money. And this is such a wake up call that it's forcing me to do it. If you're asking for more confidence, you might manifest opportunities that are going to require you to speak up in rooms where you do not want to, where you have to show up, where you have to be seen, where you are judged, where you are pushed against. And you still have to believe in yourself. If you want a bigger business, you're going to manifest leadership tests. Your team might push against you. You might have to let someone go who's been a real challenge on your team. You might have to have some really hard conversations. You might have to really lead in a way that you have never led before. Like the kind where you're like, oh, if I want my team to do that, then I have to be the person who goes first. If you want more audience, you might need to master your message. You might need to get a little edgy, get a little bold. Might you show up all the time, every single day. You might need to show up four times a day. So the universe is always rearranging things on your behalf. This is what you cannot forget, but it will always start with you. And it can feel like things are getting stripped away from you and like you are literally having a death, an ego death. So this is why dangerous prayers and bold manifestations work is because they activate you to evolve. They're activating you to actually Change out of absolute necessity, because you asked God for a big blessing. And what you really did is you said, change me into the person through the actions and challenges of all of the things and people in my life in order to become the person who could have those things. So I want to give you, like, three dangerous prayers that you can pray or things that you can say that are going to help you kind of understand what I'm talking about from this book when I say dangerous prayers. So one of them is search me. And this is like, if we're thinking of manifesting as well, this is like, search me. Think of, like, energetic alignment. So, like, what's out of alignment, right? Like, it's kind of the question that Chris and I always ask ourselves, like, what are we pretending not to know? And trust me, I ask myself that question. And I still pretend not to know because I'm like, okay, yeah, I'll answer it for this. But that one, I'm not ready to confront that yet. We all have that. Nobody's perfect. Like, I can sit on here and preach and still be like, no, there's some shit I'm not going to look at right now. I just. I feel like I can't. I can't handle it. What this does is this speeds that up. The level of risk and the level of boldness and audacity that you pray with and that you manifest with, you are asking for an accelerated path, which means shit's gonna accelerate in your life. The shitstorm will accelerate. Because if you want to be a better batter. Yep, a better batter. If you want to be a better batter, do you want to hit a ball an hour, or do you want to hit a ball every 10 seconds? That is what's going to happen to you. You're going to accelerate challenges so that you can start batting out of the park with your eyes closed, so that your batting average can start going up. So Search Me is saying, where am I totally out of energetic alignment, right? Show me the beliefs, my habits, my patterns that contradict who I want to be and what I'm manifesting. Guys, that's the shadow work. That is alignment work. This is where you see the places that you're out of integrity with your future and what you're saying and that hur. It ain't fun. It is not fun. The second prayer is Break me Now. This is from the book. And this actually freaked me out. I was like, I don't even want to read this chapter. I'm like, I can't be any, like, feel any more at a breaking point than I am right now because I'm taking on so much with my company and just risk and growth and scale. And so I was like, no, no, no, no, I don't want that one. Because I feel like I'm at my max in certain areas now. Certain areas are I'm frickin thriving. Certain areas for my capacity, I'm feeling it. So break me the version of me that can't hold what I'm asking for. You guys. Manifestation requires an ego death. And I feel like I'm having one. So old patterns have to shatter, they have to fall apart. Stories that you have about yourself, things that you believe that you need, things about your reputation, things about your life, things about your relationships, things about the way you live. There's something that if you feel like you can't live without it, it might be shattered or torn away for a hot second. It will not be permanent. It will absolutely test you so that you are not attached anymore. That's what the break me prayer is. That one's a little more dangerous. Might want to reserve that one for Q3, if you know what I'm saying. Just kidding. If you want to do it now, you want to do it now. You pick, you pick. You know how much sleep affects everything from your mood, your energy, and you hear me talk about this with skin all the time. 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Put me in the rooms, the relationships, the situations, put me on social media in the way where my blessings can bless someone else, where my manifestations can bless someone else, and where they can materialize. So this is how the universe is going to move you. This is co creation, this is alignment. So you don't manifest from your couch. You guys, you need to ask to be sent, be used. I'm like, God, use me. Send me like. And what ended up happening is I prayed this prayer. The next morning I got a message that I'm like, just go on in your bathrobe without makeup on. Like, tell everyone exactly where you're at in your life and that you're in a big growth phase. And it's very exciting and very scary. But like, just. And wait for the outcome. It's gonna be insane. But I'm stepping up more than I have stepped up ever before in my life and showing up in places that I'm like, I can't believe I'm. I'm like gonna choose this next level in this big way. And what the message that came through for me immediately. And by the way, these are whispers. This wasn't like, wake up and go do this right now. It was like, oh, my soul is kind of telling me to go get on social and be seen right now without makeup on and in my bathrobe. I think this is gonna be permission for people. And I'm just gonna talk. I'm not really gonna edit it at all. Like if there' and butts or whatever, maybe I'll pull a couple out. But I'm just gonna upload it. No perfection. Like literally nothing. Like, I. I recorded the video and it took me five minutes total. So from talking to uploading, it was like five minutes total. Because I was like, I don't wanna. I just want this to be authentic. And the reel ended up doing freaking amazing because people were just like, I needed to hear this so bad. How did you know I needed to hear this? Well, when you pray big scary prayers, how are you going to use me? Well, go show up. Even when you don't want to. Go show up and question if you sound really stupid or like, oh my God, why is she in her bathrobe with no makeup on? Like, go be vulnerable to let people know that they need to show up no matter what. And so that is one of the first places but I'm asking every day, like, it might be something small. It might be that, you know, I'm gonna go out of my way for somebody. It might that I be that my friend is sick and I'm going to go get her chicken soup. Which we just did little things like, where could I be used? That maybe it's just a little uncomfortable to do because my day is busy and instead of taking a break, I'm gonna go to the grocery store and I'm gonna bring this person chicken soup. Like, where can you be used every day? Where can you be sent? Sometimes it's social media, sometimes it's chicken soup, sometimes it's something big. But when you pray it, know that if you listen, it's gonna be quiet. You are going to get used. So the three dangerous prayers, you guys, search me, break me, send me. And so if you're ready to pray, those I highly suggest you do to be manifestations. If you guys are just like, that's where I'm at, great. That's what you're manifesting, and you're not manifesting wrong. So many people think if they're getting challenges that they're manifesting wrong. You guys. The thing is, sometimes you're like, nothing's working, or I'm blocked, or I'm being ignored. I'm not hearing anything. But actually you're getting opportunities disguised as discomfort, or you're getting it disguised as pure chaos that you need to work through as a relationship that's falling apart, as. As upgrades disguised as challenges, as major things happening in your business that feel like they're being stripped away, but maybe they weren't sustainable and you have to figure out a new way. Maybe you have to figure out a new income source. So this is literally going to be the thing and the way, if you are feeling it in your gut, it's the way that is changing me right now. It is literally rocking my world and changing my life. And getting into rooms with the people who believe more in possibility than anything else and have only created possibility in their life is the way that you are going to change your life. So this is your invite. I want to invite you into the elite entrepreneur mastermind. So just click the link below. Or you can DM me, but I want to work closely with you this year. If you are raising your hand and saying, it's me, I'm ready to go. I'm so sick of being in the same spot because I am such an action taker that I want to make sure my actions are going in the right direction this year that I can bounce it off of 30 people who have already done it to know that if I'm going to put my time, effort, energy and money here, it's actually going to start moving the needle. So, you guys, I hope that I get to work with you. I hope Chris and I get to work with you. My husband is one of the most brilliant strategists I've ever met in my life. Most people, people who join the Mastermind say that they get their full money's worth in that first strategy session, and that is mind blowing. If you want to know one of the people behind my biggest businesses and all of the money that I've created, it is my husband. Strategizing, helping, back end. And you're going to get to spend so much time with our team and so many other mentors that we have had throughout the years. So I'm so excited for you. I hope that I get to work with you. Sending so much love and I will see you next week on the podcast.
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