My
Prayer this Sweet Sunday (from Praying Through the Tough Times
by Lloyd John Ogilvie):
WHEN I AM A STINGY
RECEIVER
Revive
me, O LORD, for Your name’s sake! For Your righteousness’ sake bring my soul
out of trouble.
PSALM 143?11
Gracious
God, sometimes I’m a stingy receiver who finds it difficult to open my
tight-fisted grip on circumstances and receive the blessings that You have
prepared. You know my needs before I ask You, but wait to bless me until I ask
for Your help. I come to You now honestly to confess my needs. Lord, I need
Your inspiration for my thinking, Your love for my emotions, Your guidance for
my will, and Your strength for my body. I’ve leaned that true peace and lasting
serenity result from knowing that You have an abundant supply of resources to
help me meet any trying situation, difficult person, or disturbing complexity,
and so I say with the psalmist, “Blessed be the Lord, who daily loads us with
benefits.”
I gladly
respond to the admonitions of the psalmist: “Commit your way to the LORD,
trust also in Him, and He shall being it to pass…Rest in the LORD, and wait
patiently for Him.” I prayerfully accept the vital verbs of this advice and
apply them to my faith today: commit, trust, rest, wait. You have shown me that
when I commit to You my life and my challenges, You go into action to bring
about Your best for my life. Commitment opens the floodgates of my mind and my
heart to the flow of Your power to help with people or problems that concern
me.
I trust
in Your reliable interventions to free me from anxiety, and when I rest in Your
everlasting arms, I experience spiritual resilience and refurbishment. All Your
blessings are wroth waiting for because nothing else gives me the strength and
courage I really need. Thank You for Your faithful reliability. You, dear God,
are my Lord and Savior. Amen.
(Psalm 68:19; 37:5,7.)
My God
shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
PHILLIPPIANS 4:19
I will
keep on being filled with the Spirit.
EPHESIANS 5:18. AUTHOR’S TRANSLATION
May each
of you have a wonderful day and upcoming week…
Commit!
Trust! Rest! Wait!
Hugs,
ELC
p.s.:
That “waiting” is the hardest part, right? Sheesh.
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