Teaching: Pastor Erica Lara

This teaching continues the Dangerous Prayers series by inviting us into one of the most unsettling prayers we can offer: “Break me.” Rather than asking God to keep life comfortable or predictable, this prayer opens us to the kind of formation that only comes through surrender, hardship, and trust.

Drawing from James 1:2–4, we are reminded that God often uses trials not to harm us, but to mature us. To pray “Break me” is to acknowledge that growth often requires discomfort, and that clinging to comfort can quietly limit what God wants to do in us. Brokenness, though painful, becomes the place where self-reliance is stripped away and dependence on God is formed.

The teaching centers on Jesus as the ultimate example of a life willingly broken and poured out. At the table, as bread is broken and shared, we are invited not only to remember Christ’s sacrifice, but to pattern our lives after it. This message calls us to daily surrender, trusting that on the other side of brokenness, God’s deepest blessings, joy, and transforming power await.