Dear God,
A new day dawns and I am again reminded of Your everlasting love for me and all Your creation. I am grateful for another day of life in which to enjoy Your blessings and to be used as Your blessing to others.
I find the teachings of Paul, Your grand old warrior in Christian living and ministry to those who had accepted Jesus, a very important treasure trove for my own Christian experience. Philippians 4:6 “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be known to God.” That text is easy to roll off the tongue and around in the mind, when anxiety settles like a mantle upon our spirit; for whatever reason. The text is saying, we do not need to be overwhelmed by anxiety, because we are invited to take everything to God in prayer and supplication, not once but many times, at the same time giving thanks, because we can believe that God, will always fulfil His Word.
Can’t stop being anxious, I am learning to ask Jesus to help, and ask Him to take my anxiety. Can’t take my mind off it, think on Jesus and sing His praises. Don’t have the faith or belief that works, in accepting that God has answered this prayer, because I still feel ‘all screwed’ up. Ask God to fill me with His Holy Spirit, and the faith and belief that I am lacking. I may feel no different, but ask God to fill me with faith any way. I am sorry God, that I so often forget to take all my needs to You in prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving as I claim Your answer, and as You extend my learning and faith, please strengthen me during the wait. I now have learned to believe You cannot lie, and so Your promise will be answered in You time and manner. Mark 11: 24 “Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray believe that you receive them, and you will have them.
I have found the problem of an unanswered scriptural promise, is never with God. Thank You God, that I am gradually being taught by You, in prayer and faith in You, to become settled in my faith. Please bring me to a place, in which I can say as did Paul, Romans 8:38 “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
I pray that we all will cling to You our God and Saviour.
Amen