Prayer Time

Lord, I need your mercy. I have taken You for granted. I have not placed all of my worries and concerns in Your loving hand. I have not looked to You like I should. I am in need of Your forgiveness. I am in desperate need of your peace. I stay stressed all of the time. Our family remains busy each and every day. I know that You are with us. You have not called us to live stressed. I am asking You to please guide our day. Help us to search You in all we do. I only want Your will. I am facing a few fears today, and I know that You have sent Your angels before me to keep me from striking my foot against a stone. Please prepare my heart for facing this fear. I cannot do this without you, Father. God, please help me as a Proverbs 31 woman, to prepare my household for Your return. May we look to You for guidance on how to navigate this dying world. In Jesus Name I pray. Amen.

Close of the day

Father I am here at the close of the day. I am thankful for Your protection of my family and me. I am thankful for the giggles and happy times, but I am also thankful for the frustrating moments of impatience and imperfection. God You are made perfect in my weakness. Please remind me of that sooner. I ask that You convict me so that I am able to obey you sooner. Your mercy is perfect and just. Show me how to turn away from the negative inner dialogue that tends to plague my mind. I ask You to forgive me of my sin and failures. Please wake me to a new day of service to You. In Jesus Name I pray. Amen.

2 Corinthians 1:8-10

In this letter to the Corinthians Paul is speaking of something we as Americans cannot understand. We are not persecuted like they were in Paul's time. Even though we may not understand their persecution we do understand being burdened. We understand what it feels like to have the "weight of the world on our shoulders". We all carry burdens. Even if we are okay personally, we have friends and family members who are hurting. We might not know how we are going to make it, but Paul says that the burdens they were carrying were to show them how much they needed to rely on God. 

God wants us to fully rely upon Him. God wants our complete devotion to Him. We need to set our eyes upon God. He alone knows ALL the burdens we carry. He alone knows the burdens we carry in secret. We can hide nothing from Him. He longs to work in your life, but He cannot work if we do not trust Him. The Bible says He will never leave us. Train your thoughts to be in line with the Bible. The only way that can be done is by reading and studying His word.

So, look to God, pray, study the word. Allow God to use the burdens you carry to show you how much you need God. He loves you! He loves you! He loves you!