“Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?” -Matthew 6:27
Raise your hand if you’re living your best, worry-free, life right now! … I wish I could say that that’s me…
In the last few months, I’ve sat with different people who have lost their jobs…need to sell their homes…are closing a business…have lost loved ones...friends who are struggling with depression and suicidal thoughts…and good friends whose marriages are suffering greatly.
In short, life is hard.
There are an abundance of things to worry about.
Throw a pandemic into the mix and everything seems to be heightened even more with fear and worry.
Anyone else sometimes just wish that worrying would make things better? It’s so easy to think about the things we’re facing that are hard…and if the stakes are high and they’re not going how we want, or we have no idea how they’re going to go…they can easily consume us.
And yet, Jesus tells us, “do not worry about your life...” (Matthew 6:27)
It’s easier said than done, that’s for sure.
Lately, my prayers are a reflection of just that. I’m sharing because maybe you’re in a similar place and this’ll help you too…
Lord, Your word says that You have not given me a spirit of fear, but a Spirit of love, a Spirit full of power and Spirit that produces a sound mind. Help me to trust that fully, Lord. Because at times, my mind just swirls with fear and I know that is not from You, but it’s the enemy trying to trip me up. And I won’t let him win.
Forgive me, Lord, for worrying about the details that You already have figured out. I don’t even know why I do it. I can count over and over again in my life where You’ve shown up in miraculous ways and worrying did nothing to benefit me or my family in the process… So I’m asking You to please increase my faith, God. Calm my unbelief. Make me stronger. Keep me solely dependent on You alone, so that I can boast in Your great name and others can see the reflection of Who You are and what You’ve done in me.
Bind up my heart and bring healing to the splintered pieces that are aching. Open my eyes to see Your goodness that’s around me and help my perspective. Lift my head up high when it hangs low from insecurities, self-loathing, and the inability to control what’s going on. Guide my footsteps to what You want next for me, and calm my nerves for wherever and whatever You’re leading me to.
Give me a deeper hunger and thirst for Your Word. For Your Truth. For Your Spirit. And that my worry would fade away with each passing breath. You are everything that I need.
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