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Are you in a place where you arelooking at your present difficultiesand your own inabilities, or are youtrusting in the supernatural abilityof God for breakthrough?This is a question we must all answer over and over againthroughout our life. Will I trust God with all of these impossibilities?Will I continue to believe Him for the breakthrough? It’s so easy tolook at our inabilities and say, “Lord, I don’t have the gifting.” “I don’thave the strength.” “I don’t have the resources and people.” “I don’thave the money.”In your present situation, God has supernatural ability to do theimpossible. Right now look at your life. Where is your focus? Is it onyour finite self, or is it on a limitless God who can do anything? Ourresponsibility is to trust, know, and carefully obey God’s Word. He is able to do what man cannot do. He is able to bring breakthrough in your life. He is able to help in the most difficult of circumstances.Our God has the ability. He always has and He always will. Don’tgive up. Have faith in God. There is an ability of God that we havenot yet tapped into in our life experiences. Don’t doubt but believe,and remember that the Lord is with you.Excerpted from A Prayer for Trusting in God’s Ability by Debbie Przybylski, featuredon Crosswalk.com.2Trusting God When Life Hurts: A 30-Day Prayer and Scripture Guide
1A Prayer to JumpstartYour Prayer LifeI will praise You as long as I live, lifting up my hands in prayer.Psalm 63:4 (NLT)Commit to Prayer Time Our lives get so crazy. We get overloadedat work, the kids have to be shuffled everywhere and then thereare the unexpected things that pop up. It’s easy to let our prayerlife become stagnant. This year, commit to spending 15, 30 or 60minutes with the Lord on a daily basis. Pencil it in on your calendarso it becomes ingrained in your daily life.Pray without Distraction Sit down with your family and explainthat you want to really lean into your prayer life this year. Letthem know that from this time to this time each day, you won’t beavailable and that this is your prayer time. Make a sign for the doorof your War Room so your young children will know not to disturbyou.Pray Spontaneously A lot of people think you have to be in churchto pray but this is not true. You can pray any time, anywhere. It’salways good to pray spontaneously. If you run into a friend orhear of someone who needs prayer, don’t wait till you can writeit down. Pray right then and there. Pray for people whose namesfloat through your mind during your busy day. Pray when you feela tugging or stirring in your heart. Praying this way is excellentbecause you never know if the person you are thinking of needsprayer at that very moment.Pray Specifically Take some time to step up your prayer game.3Trusting God When Life Hurts: A 30-Day Prayer and Scripture Guide
Instead of ‘blanket praying’ as we all do at some point when weare absolutely exhausted, take some time to write down specifics.If you know someone who needs surgery, write a specific prayerfor it. If you know someone who is going through a divorce, writea specific prayer for that. If you know someone who just had ababy, write down specifics to pray over the situation. If you knowsomeone who just got engaged, write a specific prayer for that.Praying specifically for a person or situation not only makes youfeel closer to the Lord, it makes you feel closer to the person.Let us pray.Dear Lord,I come to You over my prayer life right now. I know that I havebeen lax and have been so distracted lately. I want to renewmy commitment to spending time with You every day and tojumpstart my prayer life again. But I’m scared that I will becomedistracted and fail like so many other times. I pray that You willrenew a passion in me for this part of my life. I pray that I willhave a fresh, laser like focus on spending time with You and inpraying for others. Help me to recognize the stirring in my heartwhen someone needs spontaneous prayer. Help me to recognizewhen it’s You that wakes me up in the middle of the night to be a‘watchman’ and to have the clarity to hear your voice. In Your NameI pray. Amen.Editor’s Note: Content taken from the article, 11 Ways to Jumpstart Your Prayer LifeThis Year, written by Carrie Lowrance. You can read that piece in full here. All rightsreserved.4Trusting God When Life Hurts: A 30-Day Prayer and Scripture Guide
2A Prayer to Find Faithin the ChaosBe still and know that I am God.Psalm 46:10My computer monitor is lined with post-it notes containing listsof things to do RIGHT NOW, plus errands to run this week andappointments to schedule and random to-dos that I move fromone list to another and never manage to complete. There arereminders of birthday gifts to buy, printer toner to order, movingdates for my college-age daughter, tuition bills due, calls to make,checks to deposit, cards to send, messages to write.I want faith to be an important part of my life, but some days thereseems to be no room for it because everything else is pushing itout of the way.It may seem impossible to spend time finding faith amidst thechaos, and I agree, it’s not always easy. But I encourage you to stealmoments wherever you can find them to reconnect with God inthe jumble of your life.Be still. That’s all it takes. A moment in which to remember. Stop.Breathe deeply. And let yourself be aware that He is right therewith you. Take that knowledge with you when you ease back intothe day.Put God first. Mentally commit to putting God first, to spendingtime talking to Him and learning about Him. When I can do thisnear the beginning of my day, everything else is a whole lot more5Trusting God When Life Hurts: A 30-Day Prayer and Scripture Guide
manageable and I feel more balanced. Even if I just have fiveminutes.Keep an eye out for God in the chaos. Peace infuses theatmosphere when you slow down and feel God’s presence, butthat doesn’t mean He is not also present in the too-cluttered,hectic activities crowding your days. God is with us all the time. Justthink how much more meaningful your day will be if you spend itnoticing Him. When we see Him, our faith increases, and in turn wefocus even more on watching for Him.Pray without ceasing. Practice keeping up a running commentarywith God, thanking Him for the blessings you see and the peopleyou encounter. Prayer is the primary way we communicate withGod to strengthen our faith.Prayer: Dear Lord, help me—every single morning—to find faith inthe midst of the chaos. Give me the desire and ability to see You,hear You, talk to You, and give thanks to You. And as I do, I praythat I will draw nearer and nearer to You, and that my faith willmultiply exponentially as I understand in new, deeper ways thatYou are everything I ever hoped You would be. And so much more.Amen.Editor’s Note: Content taken from 7 Simple Ways to Find Faith in the Chaos by KellyO’Dell Stanley. You can read that piece in full here. All rights reserved.6Trusting God When Life Hurts: A 30-Day Prayer and Scripture Guide
3A Prayer forReassurance“When you go through deep waters and great trouble, I will be withyou. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown!When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not beburned up; the flames will not consume you.”Isaiah 43:2 (NLT)In a bookstore, I spotted one of my friends, Carol, who was askingan employee where she could find a new suspense novel that hadjust been released. The young man quickly handed Carol the bookfrom his personal stash behind the counter and went back to work.I watched a smile spread across Carol’s face as she examined hernew treasure while gently turning the book over in her hands andflipping through pages. Carol then did something I absolutely couldnot believe. She turned to the last several pages of the book andbegan reading. I could not help myself.“Okay. I have to confess that I saw you reading the last few pagesof the book. Why in the world did you read the ending? Won’t thatspoil the story for you?” I asked.“Not at all,” Carol quickly responded. “Before I buy a book, I alwaysread the ending to make sure I really want that particular book,”she explained.It was worse than I thought.Seeing the look of disbelief on my face, she laughed and admitted,“I know. It sounds crazy, but I have to know that everything turns7Trusting God When Life Hurts: A 30-Day Prayer and Scripture Guide
out okay before I commit to reading the book.”The more I thought about Carol’s words, the more I realize that, asfollowers of God, we need to do the same. We need to live everyminute of every day knowing that no matter what we face, we cantruly say, “God’s got it!”When we focus only on what we can see and understand orexplain, we will worry.Fear and doubt will become familiar companions if we live eachday against the backdrop of this broken world and our desperatecircumstances. Our only hope is God.Father, I am tempted to worry about so many things. Our worldis a mess! Forgive me for focusing on anything or anyone but You.Thank You for the Bible that equips and empowers me to live eachday. Right now, I declare that You are my only Hope. Please helpme remember that You really are in control. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.Editor’s Note: Content taken from the Girlfriends in God devotional, God’s Got It,written by Mary Southerland. You can read that piece in full here. All rightsreserved.8Trusting God When Life Hurts: A 30-Day Prayer and Scripture Guide
4A Prayer forUnshakable Peace“I have set the LORD always before me. Because He is at my righthand, I will not be shaken.”Psalm 16:8, NIVNo matter what you go through, you can experience unshakablepeace, and declare, “I will not be shaken!” as the psalmist didin Psalm 16:8. God knows what you have been through andwhat you are going through. He promises peace to each believerthrough Jesus.Part of our unsettled nature is that we try to cling to the thingsof earth—to the “American way” of living—to the here and now.When we put our trust in things of this world, we give anxiety, fear,jealously, discontentment, greed, and insecurity open access to ourlives. (1 Timothy 6:17–19)Instead of finding ways to hold on to what you have, beencouraged today to let go.Let go of what doesn’t matter. Even let go of those things thatseem worth your worry.“So do not worry, saying, “What shall we eat?” or “What shall wedrink?” or “What shall we wear?” For the pagans run after all thesethings, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all thesethings will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry abouttomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has9Trusting God When Life Hurts: A 30-Day Prayer and Scripture Guide
enough trouble of its own.” (Matthew 6:31–34, NIV)Seek God first, friend above and before any earthly thing, largeor small. Have faith that He will meet you at your need. God wantsus to store up treasures where moth and rust will not destroy.He wants us to trust Him. When we do, He promises that we canlive with an unshakable peace that passes understanding.Dear Lord, I need your unshakable peace! Please forgive me forplacing my trust and hope in things of this earth. Lead my soul tofind rest in You and in Your perfect plan for my life.In Jesus’ Name,Amen.Excerpted from the Girlfriends in God devotional “Unshakable Peace” by GwenSmith. You can read the piece in full here.10Trusting God When Life Hurts: A 30-Day Prayer and Scripture Guide
5A Prayer forHard Days“Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.”James 4:8We all have hard days. Challenging days. Days that stretch us,sometimes beyond what we can bear. Sometimes these daysappear as a series of little irritating events that build up to oneterrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Other days we wake up tofind one huge unexpected event that lands like a bomb in our life.Sometimes those hard days find us busy and distracted as wetry to fix everything that has gone wrong. Or we get so caughtup in our thoughts and feelings about our circumstances that itconsumes us. Or perhaps we attempt to hide away from struggleof the day in the hopes that if we don’t think about it, maybe it willall go just away.Instead of such responses, hard days are opportunities for us todraw near to God. They are opportunities for us to rely on him,depend on him, and receive more of his grace. Such days remindus how desperate we are and how much we need our Savior.Father in Heaven,Help me! I am so weary and worn down by this day. So manythings are happening all at once and I don’t know what to do. Iam overwhelmed. It feels like I am standing in a fierce wind thatis whipping and swirling around me. I can’t move; the force is sostrong. It may just knock me down flat. And worse of all, what if I11Trusting God When Life Hurts: A 30-Day Prayer and Scripture Guide
can’t get back up again?Father, I can barely lift my eyes to you. It’s all I can do to cry out forhelp. Please extend your grace to me this day. Help me to see thatyou are in this and that you are with me. Help me to rememberthat you are not surprised or taken off guard by the events of thisday.As I dwell and meditate on who you are, I am amazed and filledwith wonder that you would love and care for me. No otherreligion in all the world has a God that loves his people. No otherreligion has a God that listens and cares about the cries of thehuman heart. No other religion has a God that would humblehimself and take on frail human flesh and live in this sin-stainedworld. No other religion has a God that would lay down his life forhis people.But you are that God. You are God alone. Your word tells methat before time began you chose me to be yours through yourSon, Jesus Christ (Ephesians 1:4). You set your love on me andmade me yours. Ephesians also says that through Christ, I have“redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses,according to the riches of his grace” (1:7).Forgive me for my fears about this day. Forgive me for how I havecomplained and muttered about how hard this day has been.Forgive me for forgetting that you are with me. Forgive me forforgetting who I am because of what your Son, Jesus Christ, hasdone. Forgive me for failing to remember the glorious truths andriches I have because of the gospel.It is these truths that I am focusing my heart on in the midst of12Trusting God When Life Hurts: A 30-Day Prayer and Scripture Guide
this hard day. I pray the words of Paul and claim them as my ownthat “the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may giveme the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,having the eyes of my hearts enlightened, that I may know whatis the hope to which he has called me, what are the riches of hisglorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurablegreatness of his power toward us who believe” (Ephesians 1:17–19).Father, hear my prayer. Grant me gospel hope in the midst of thishard day. Help me to cling to your grace, your wisdom, and yourstrength.Through Jesus and because of Jesus and in his name I pray, Amen.This devotional was taken from A Prayer for Hard Days by Christina Fox. To read thefull version, go here.13Trusting God When Life Hurts: A 30-Day Prayer and Scripture Guide
6A Prayer for When You Don’tUnderstand Your Circumstances“His disciples did not understand these things at first, but whenJesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things hadbeen written about him and had been done to him”John 12:16, ESVWe can all attest to the 20/20 nature of hindsight; that moment oflooking back on a complicated, confusing situation and realizingexactly what we should have done or been aware of at the time.But can we somehow turn this expectation into an advantage inthe moment, as it’s playing out? Can we live in light of the realitythat a time is coming when we’ll see God’s hand in all of this?Have you ever been in a situation like that—where you didn’tunderstand what was happening? Where you couldn’t seem to feelanything but disappointment or confusion? Where you seemed tobe more questions than answers?Knowing why is not part of the skillset God expects from us asHis followers. Answers to all the usual questions—Why is thishappening? What on earth is God doing?—are not required, mostlikely not even available, during the heat of life’s most mystifyingmoments.All you need to know in times like these is the confident assurancethat afterward, when you look back, you will see His hand at workin it. And knowing you’ll see it from a distance means it’s alreadyhere in the present—perhaps not to be recognized immediately,14Trusting God When Life Hurts: A 30-Day Prayer and Scripture Guide
but to be trusted implicitly.Even when it’s difficult now, remember that one day you’ll see withclarity what God has been doing. And that it was always, only, foryour good and His glory.Pray:Lord God, I know You are here. I trust in Your presence, Yourpower, Your goodness, and Your complete control over everythingI’m facing. Help me walk through the questions, assured of Youranswers, even though they’re still unclear to me. I know one dayKing Jesus will appear as the “Faithful and True” (Revelation 19:11),riding a powerful horse and fully revealing His authority. And Iknow that even now, when I don’t understand all the answers, Ihave You with me, and that is all that matters. Please give meincreasing eyes of faith to trust what You are doing, even—andespecially—when I don’t understand. I love You and I trust You,and I pray these things in Jesus’ Worthy Name, Amen.Editor’s Note: Content taken from the Our Journey Online devotional, “What God’sBeen Doing,” written by Dr. James MacDonald. You can read that piece in full here.All rights reserved.15Trusting God When Life Hurts: A 30-Day Prayer and Scripture Guide
7A Prayer for Guidancefrom the Holy SpiritAnd do not forget to do good and to share with others, for withsuch sacrifices God is pleased.Hebrews 13:16One of the Holy Spirits tasks is to experientially validate for everybeliever God’s awesome love, acceptance, and encouragementtoward each of His children. We “taste and see” that the Lord isgood through the Holy Spirit, bringing his goodness to us (Psalm34:8). We sense it and feel it deeply. We love how the Holy Spirittakes the intellectual concepts of love, mercy and grace of God andmakes them practical and experiential.The Holy Spirit’s best work in people is seen in how He changesthe way they relate to one another. You want the best part of yourcharacter displayed in your kids. It’s when your positive qualities,ways, words, actions and encouragements are reproduced In yourchild’s interactions with others that brings you joy. On the otherhand, if they abuse, discourage and harm others with their wayand words, you are grieved.” That’s not me,” you protest. I thinkour waywardness has the same effect on the Holy Spirit.The Holy Spirit heals relationships. He does this by lending andprompting all believers to show to others what God has shownthem in the person of Jesus Christ. His point: you didn’t deservegrace, but now that you have it, you better give it as liberally as youreceived it! If we don’t the same thing grieve the Holy Spirit. Jesusaggressively illustrated His heart in the parable of the unmerciful16Trusting God When Life Hurts: A 30-Day Prayer and Scripture Guide
servant. You feel the Holy Spirit’s presence and you honor himwhen your character reveals the grace that Jesus has freely givenyou.If you want more of the Spirit’s presence in your life, to be more intouch with His leading, here is a prayer you can pray today:Lord, I pray you would move the Spirit more boldly in my life. Iknow that any sin can grieve and diminish the voice of the Spirit,and I pray against the temptation to sin. Help me crave yourpresence more than I crave sin. Help me grow in the fruit of theSpirit and so walk closer with Yourself. I pray for guidance fromyour Spirit—let your will and promises always be a meditation ofmy heart. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.Editor’s Note: The following is an abridged version of “Holy Spirit Impact” from EveryMan Ministries. To read the full devotional, follow this link.17Trusting God When Life Hurts: A 30-Day Prayer and Scripture Guide
8A Prayer for aHeavy HeartDo not be far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one tohelp. Psalm 22:11Recently, a dear friend experienced the heartbreaking end toher engagement with her dream wedding to her best friend onlyweeks away. I’ve sat with her for hours and hours as she grievedand mourned and tried to process all the chaos and life changesthat were now surrounding her, and my heart has been weigheddown by the immensity of it all.Another friend reached out with the painful news of infertility inher marriage, a family member is in the hospital after a fall brokeher leg in a nasty way, parents I know are struggling with prodigalchildren they wish would come, and the weight of the hurt andconfusion is heavy on my heart.There is nothing I can say or do that will ease the pain or erase theache. When I feel hopeless and helpless, I come before the Lordand surrender it all to Him. I cannot, but I know He can, and I’mgrateful for the words of this prayer:Father, my heart is heavy. I feel like I have to carry the burdenalone. Words like “overwhelmed,” “distraught,” “exhausted” seemto describe where I am. I am not sure how to let you carry myheavy load, so please show me how. Take it from me. Let merest and be refreshed so that my heart won’t be so heavy in themorning. In Jesus’ name. Amen.18Editor’s note: This prayer was written by Ron Moore and shared in a collectionhere. The devotional content was added by BibleStudyTools.com editor RachelTrusting God When Life Hurts: A 30-Day Prayer and Scripture GuideDawson.
9A Prayer for When YouStruggle with Doubt“’If you can?’ said Jesus. ‘Everything is possible for one who believes.’Immediately the boy’s father exclaimed, ‘I do believe; help meovercome my unbelief.’”Mark 9:23–24From the time I was a young girl, my faith was something I tookseriously. I loved learning about this incredible God of the Biblethat loved me in my sin, so much so He sent His own son totake my place in death. I loved reading that He is alive and thatHe works everything for my good and His glory. And I loved therealization that the pages of Scripture I read were God-breathedand alive, applicable to my day-to-day life. I believed all of it. Or so Ithought.Then freshman year of college happened. And along with theregular ups and downs that come with freshman year, it was themost stressful year my family had ever experienced. To makematters worse, I felt responsible for everyone in the situation.Looking back, it’s obvious that it wasn’t my responsibility to makesure everyone smiled through such a season—emotions shouldhave been expected. But in my anxious, 18-year-old mind, ifsomeone in the family wasn’t cheerful, I was to blame.But when the blame on myself became too much, I began puttingit on someone else. The only person that I could think wasresponsible—God Himself.Tough seasons reveal what we really believe, and my tough season19Trusting God When Life Hurts: A 30-Day Prayer and Scripture Guide
was revealing that everything I thought defined me wasn’t real tome at all.I didn’t know what to do about it. Every day was more hopelessthan the day before. I was losing my faith and in doing so, myidentity.So what do we do when our head and heart think differently? AskGod to teach us the truth.For anyone to truly know God and the truths of His word, GodHimself has to work supernaturally in our hearts. Want to hear thegreat news? HE WANTS TO DO THAT IN US. God desires for us toknow Him and truly believe His Word. All we have to do is ask.One of my favorite verses in the Bible is when a father bringshis sick son to Jesus and asks Him to drive out the evil spiritpossessing him. The father asks Jesus to heal him by beginningthe sentence, “if you can”. When Jesus responds that everythingis possible in Him the father exclaims, “Lord, I believe; help myunbelief!” Amen. That is a prayer I believe God is honored in. Thisis my version of that prayer:“Lord, I believe in you. I believe you are good. I believe that I amsecure in you—that I am hidden in you and no real harm can cometo me with you as my rock and my salvation. I believe that you seeme and you love me—that I am treasured in your sight. Help myunbelief. Help that head knowledge become heart knowledge—sothat my actions reflect those truths and not the lies the enemythrows at me.”Ask the Father to help you believe today. He desires that for you.20Editor’s Note: Content taken from “3 Things to Do When You Struggle with Doubt” byJordan Sok. You can read that piece in full here. All rights reserved.Trusting God When Life Hurts: A 30-Day Prayer and Scripture Guide
10A Prayer forDirectionHe has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORDrequire of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walkhumbly with your God?Micah 6:8We naturally want to determine our own course in life. It seemslike the only logical way to get where we want to go. But beingwise in our own eyes is pride. To combat this tendency, the Lordinstructs us to fear Him and turn away from evil. This “fear” isnot a horrified dread of the Father, but an attitude of respect thatmotivates us to obey Him for both our good and His glory.We naturally want to keep our money for ourselves. A desire for abetter lifestyle or fear of not having enough leads us to hang ontoeverything we get. But our compass directs us to honor God bygiving Him the first part of all we have, trusting Him to provide forour needs.We naturally hate God’s discipline. His painful reproofs seem toprove that He doesn’t care about us. But our heavenly Father saysHis discipline is the evidence that confirms His love and delight inus as His children.Sometimes in our desire to follow the Lord, we focus on obedientactions—doing what He says—but miss His directions concerningour attitudes and thought patterns. To stay on God’s path for ourlives, we must make course corrections not only in our behaviorbut also in our hearts and minds.21Trusting God When Life Hurts: A 30-Day Prayer and Scripture Guide
Pray with me for direction from the Lord:Lord, I confess that I often ignore or don’t care to follow the pathyou’ve laid out for me. I often try to make my own path withdisasterous results. Help me follow you with not only my actions,but my thoughts and attitudes. Thank you for knowing the bestpath for my life and for never abandoning me to my own ways.Help me remember this truth as I live out my days, and help memake necessary course corrections as I walk along the way. InJesus’ Name, Amen.Editor’s Note: The following is an abridged version of God’s Compass for the Heart andMind from the In Touch devotional. To read the full article follow this link.22Trusting God When Life Hurts: A 30-Day Prayer and Scripture Guide
11A Prayer for WhenLife Is Messy“He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love.”Zephaniah 3:17Today I am not the most shining example of motherhood. The sunis shining but I am certainly not. I yelled at my 14-year-old sonat 5:45 a.m. when he didn’t want to wake up for morning soccerpractice and then cried myself back to sleep. I tried to have adiscussion with my 21-year-old about a simple chore I’ve askedher to do for weeks, with no success, and it ended with both of usshouting and me screaming at her, grabbing my bag, and leavingthe house in tears. It sounds stupid. And it is. But that doesn’tchange the fact that I’m fuming mad and not feeling all that lovingor prayerful right now.I know these are not life-and-death situations. So many of thethings we face daily are huge. True loss, severe and unavoidableconsequences, serious and real stuff that far surpasses stressand hormone-induced rage. It’s never just one situation thatmakes it hard to pray, but an accumulation. Emotions and losses.Disappointments and mistakes.It’s not realistic to think that we’ll ever be without pain or fear orgrief or doubt or chaos.We need God now, every single day, each and every moment,not at some unforeseeable point in the future. Not only in themoments of crisis, but in the days in between.23Trusting God When Life Hurts: A 30-Day Prayer and Scripture Guide
The only way to get through anything—to get through everything—is to pray.So I sit. I imagine the whirring gears in my mind slowing, thenstopping. I focus on stilling my entire body. I close my eyes andbegin. “Lord.” I take a deep breath, and I feel anxiety flutteringagain, so I take another. I don’t even try to find words. I soak inthe presence of God. Knowing that whatever is ailing me, He canfix. Whatever is lost can be restored. Whatever troubles me can bemanaged.I certainly don’t mean to oversimplify the process, but the truthis that something supernatural happens when we long for Him.When we pray. When we recognize our own limitations, when weacknowledge the barriers before us. When we ask God to quiet oursouls and renew our strength.Pray with me:Prince of Peace, I find myself unable to cope with life sometimes.Instead of feeling grateful, I feel bogged down by theresponsibilities of all that You’ve given me. I want to live out Yourlove, but I find myself consumed with frustration, jealousy, orworry. I want to grow closer to You, but in practice, I’m too tired orbored or busy. Circumstances will rarely be ideal; I know that. But Ialso know that the only thing that makes life worthwhile is living itwith You. Show me how to pray when things aren’t perfect. Showme how to put aside all of the weights and sins and emotions thattangle me up. And demonstrate to me, daily, the reality tha
of your War Room so your young children will know not to disturb you. Pray Spontaneously A lot of people think you have to be in church to pray but this is not true. You can pray any time, anywhere. It’s always good to pray spontaneously. If you run into a friend or hear of someone who needs
