“What man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?” (Mt 7:9).
Do you ask the Lord for little things—like daily bread? Jesus said we should, didn’t He? Is there anything too little to ask Him? Or to put it the other way around, is anything at all a big thing to God?
C.H. Spurgeon said, “I remember hearing it said of a godly man, ‘Mr. So-and-So is a gracious fellow, but he’s very strange. The other day he prayed about a key he had lost.’ The person who told me this was astonished at bothering God about something so trivial, and was surprised when I said that I too prayed about little things.…‘Tell me, how big must a care be before you talk to Him about it? If a certain size is required, we should be told in the Bible so we can learn the mathematics of prayer. Small matters often cause us great concern and sometimes are harder to deal with than bigger things. If we couldn’t voice them to God, it would bring great loss of comfort to us all.’ ”