A Prayer for Assurance of God’s Safety
By Keri Eichberger
“The LORD your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves.” – Zephaniah 3:17
I’ve a concern of flying. If you already know me, you already know this. Nevertheless, it’s really gotten leaps and bounds higher over time as I’ve leaned nearer and nearer to the truths of God’s almighty energy and management and his love that all the time appears out for me. However I nonetheless should battle like loopy to cling to the Lord to permit his sovereign presence to infuse, calm, and luxury my shaky spirit each time I board any plane. And let me inform you, flying actually isn’t the one scenario that unsteadies the sails of my soul.
Final summer time, for instance, I used to be getting ready for a flight throughout the nation to witness my niece get married. Days earlier than, my devotional scripture of the day was Zephaniah 3:17, which begins, “The LORD your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves.” I knew this reality can be useful to carry close to on my flight, so I jotted it down and marked the verse as a post-it bookmark in my sizzling pink and favourite bible–a “will need to have” on all air journey. I later opened Zephaniah to replicate on the that means of the phrases as a way of unease started to swell whereas hovering increased and better above the clouds into the clear blue sky.
I wanted to know God was with me. I mounted my concentrate on the positive black textual content and imagined my “mighty warrior” proper beside me, saving me, defending me, and surrounding me. I memorized the verse as I customized it time and again in my thoughts: Keri, the LORD your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. With every repetition, the Lord allowed peace to circulation and develop inside. I wouldn’t know I’d want the depth of this reality time and again within the few days earlier than my return house. However I did. As a result of, amongst a few different unnamed incidents, I used to be confronted with one more surprising concern the next day.
On the marriage day, a limo bus picked up a number of of the company, myself and my household included, to supply transportation to the ceremony. It was an exquisite mountainous Colorado drive till the bus took a pointy flip onto a one-lane, windy, gravel street to go a ultimate steep 2000 toes as much as the height the place the occasion would happen. You’d should have been there to grasp the extent of the extraordinary drop-offs and sharp turns the outsized car would maneuver backwards and forwards precisely eleven life-threatening (seeming) instances. However belief me, it was downright scary. Everybody felt it. And I bear in mind closing my eyes after surviving the primary flip, grateful for the verse I had burned in my mind for such an surprising time as this.
As soon as once more, I wanted to know God was with me. And once more, I pictured him subsequent to me. I noticed our mighty, mighty warrior wrapped round me and my family members, with safety that might you should definitely maintain every soul with peace it doesn’t matter what occurred. You would possibly suppose I’m a giant wimp, or perhaps this story triggered reminiscences of fearful circumstances you’ve been positioned in. However I do know you’ve gotten fears, too.
Is there one thing immediately that has you stirred up with fearful emotions or consumed with concern, leaving you determined for assurance of God’s almighty safety? What’s it? Are you frightened of a close to or long-term consequence? Possibly coping with a prognosis, a dangerous process, or a cherished one is. I understand how you’re feeling. And also you so badly wish to know that God has this, has you. That he’ll take care of you, shield you, or whoever it’s you’re involved for.
Can I remind you that the Lord is with you? That he’s oh so mightily in charge of each element. The Phrase tells us not even one sparrow will fall to the bottom exterior of the Father’s care. And that we shouldn’t be afraid as a result of we’re of a lot extra worth than the sparrows (Matthew 10:29-31). He’s watching each transfer made round you, and he won’t let go of one among his kids for a break up second. You might be all the time, all the time, all the time within the Father’s excellent care. He is the mighty warrior who saves.
I pray this gives you consolation as you repeat this fear-fighting reality immediately or tomorrow within the midst of your fragile moments and fears. The Lord holds you and hovers over you—you, me, and all of those that love him.
Let’s pray:
Father God, I’ve so many worries, cares, and issues. Many I don’t even acknowledge as they’ve change into so widespread and threaded by means of every day of my life. And I’ve fears, too. Some small and a few actually large at instances that attempt to overtake me. However you’re my mighty Savior. All the time with me. Assist me do not forget that not one element of my life, or the lives of these I like, is out of your sovereign love and management. I’m so grateful you’ve gotten me. Due to what the Bible tells me. I might be positive of your fixed safety. And I might be positive your excellent love won’t ever ever depart me. Oh, how blessed I’m by you. Might I stay assured in your unfailing Phrase. In your trustworthy title, Jesus, I pray, amen.
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