During my time as a pastor I heard many excuses for not praying about a situation. I'll save some of the excuses for other posts, but this time I'd like to address the issue of not praying about a situation because of the size of that situation. I found it interesting that there was no commonality in the size of the situations that caused this lack of prayer.

Some folks would not pray about something because they believed that it was too small a matter to bother the Lord with. Others would not pray because they believed that the matter was way to big to feel comfortable taking it to God. Can't pray about it because it's too small and also can't pray about it because it's too big.

There are no size requirements or limitations in the scripture for prayers. None. We are told that we should have faith for our prayers to be answered (James 5:15). We are told to have belief that our prayers will be answered (Mark 9:23), but even that person received help with their unbelief (Mark 9:24-25). We are told to "come boldly before the throne of grace" (Hebrews 4:16) for our prayers to be answered. But at no point is size mentioned.

Perhaps because we see so many mighty moves of God in the scriptures we arrive at the conclusion that God only does big and majestic miracles. Rather I would suggest that because God can perform mighty exploits like the ten plagues he delivered against Egypt, yet takes time to know the number of hairs on our heads (Luke 12:7), that he is interested in the entire spectrum of needs that we have, from small to large. So, take those prayer requests to God as often as you need to for whatever you need help with at that time. Big prayers, little prayers, they're all good and God cares about his children, so go ahead and pray about everything (Philippians 4:6).