As a Christian, you have a huge advantage above the unbeliever. You can go to God in prayer anytime, anyplace, and with any need. Knowing that God not only hears your requests, but He, also, answers each and every one of them. This is so reassuring for you. God, in His all-powerful, all-knowing way, answers your prayers, even beyond what you can ask, or even think.
You may think that you only need to ask for the big things from God. After all, you can handle the small stuff. Prayer requests that are small are the things well within your capacity to fulfill them. You can do some things, so why should you ask God to answer them?
A woman said to G. Campbell Morgan, “Oh, I could never take my little problems to God. I wouldn’t want to bother Him with those. I take only the big problems to God.” He answered, “Are any problems big for God?” Stop. Let that question sink into your cranium. Indeed, if you think about it, no problem is big to God. Yet, within your limited strength and knowledge, you view some prayer requests as big and others as little. Not so with God.
The Scriptures teach that you are to pray and to keep praying, until God answers your prayer. Biblically, you are to be persistent in your prayers. Praying once, and then leaving it with God, is not taught in Scriptures. But what about praying for the small stuff? Philippians 4:6 answers that question: “Be anxious about nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your request be known to God.” In prayer, you are to “let your request be known to God.” So, yes you are to pray. But what about those little things? The verse says to pray about “everything.” Everything means everything. This means even those small or little things.
There is no such thing as a big or little prayer request to God. He is fully capable of answering either one. Learn to bring even the smallest request into the throne room of God!
