A Prayer for a Steadfast Spirit
By Christine Perry
“Create in me a clear coronary heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit inside me.” Psalms 51:10 NKJV
We live throughout a time that has been outlined as “The Nice Resignation.” Silent quitting is turning into the norm. But, this isn’t simply taking place in jobs. It has turn out to be the norm in our society as an entire. This pattern has additionally trickled into different believers’ lives and our very personal. In case you cease and go searching, you will note indicators of silent quitting in {our relationships}, church attendance, and our Bible studying and praying.
Please perceive my coronary heart as I write this. I’m not penning this to criticize you. I’m penning this as a result of I’ve needed to ask God, as David did in Psalm 51:10, to resume a steadfast spirit in me. I keep in mind going via a season not too way back the place there have been a variety of adjustments and uncertainty happening the place I labored. A number of higher-ups had resigned. I had been frantically looking for one other job earlier than that occurred. I had a number of job interviews and leads, but all of them got here to nothing. I keep in mind praying and asking God why He stored closing doorways. Whereas I didn’t hear God audibly, I had thought that stored coming to me that God was attempting to show me to be regular.
It was powerful as a result of all the things in me wished to go away. I ask God for the energy to remain. God did a variety of work in my coronary heart throughout that point and the hearts of others that I labored alongside. There had been a variety of misunderstanding and damage that happened beforehand. So, when these two higher-ups resigned, it allowed for therapeutic to happen that would not have been there had it not pressured the administration and the administration group, which included me, to work collectively. Relationships have been mended, and a brand new appreciation was shaped. By the point I did depart, I had the total assist of everybody.
These days, I’ve been grateful for the stability the Lord taught me in that earlier season as a result of I’ve needed to ask for steadiness in one other space of my life. I’ve gone again to this verse so many occasions. I at all times must ask God to create a clear coronary heart in me first as a result of, as Jeremiah says in 17:9, “The guts is deceitful above all issues, and desperately depraved; Who can realize it?”
It may be simple to have a look at the scenario and complain in regards to the adjustments you need to see as a substitute of praying that God adjustments you to deal with the conditions He has allowed you to expertise. As Elisabeth Elliot so veraciously mentioned, “The key is Christ in me, not me in a special set of circumstances.”
Let’s pray:
Pricey Heavenly Father,
Thank You for Your endurance with us. Thank You that steadfast love by no means ceases and that your mercies by no means come to an finish. Lord, we will develop weary so rapidly. Our hearts are liable to wander and our minds overlook Your guarantees. Lord, I ask that You’d create in me a clear coronary heart and that You’d additionally renew a steadfast spirit inside me. I pray that You’d do the identical for these studying this prayer in the present day.
Father, I ask that You assist us to be trustworthy, diligent, and steadfast in all of the duties and relationships You’ve gotten given us. We all know that all the things is a present from Your hand. I ask that You additionally assist us have a coronary heart of gratitude as You assist us stay regular. I pray that our eyes shall be mounted on You and never what we could also be strolling via. Lord, please maintain us quick. Assist strengthen our knees and our palms and assist us be helpful vessels to your honor and use.
Lord, please assist us to rely upon You for all we’d like. You say that You’re our Shepherd, so we now have all we’d like. Assist us to not overlook that. Thanks for loving us, and I pray that You’d assist us to like you and people you’re keen on higher and extra every day.
In Jesus’ identify, Amen
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Christine is only a woman who was given the present of being raised in an unbelievable household. For causes unknown to her, God has blessed her with a tremendous life full of lovely friendships, exceptional experiences, and a love from Him that’s fully underserved. She needs to encourage others and share hope as we journey via the highs and lows of life. Christine is the writer of How I Met Peace and For the Weary Life Traveler, a 31-day devotional. Try extra of Christine’s work at her web site: Studying to be fearless and her Patreon.
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