A Prayer When Going through Overwhelming Stress and Nervousness
By Keri Eichberger
Bible Studying
“Belief within the LORD with all of your coronary heart and lean not by yourself understanding; in all of your methods undergo him, and he’ll make your paths straight.” – Proverbs 3:5-6
Stress. Fear. Uncertainty. Overwhelm. I really feel all of it. And this undoubtedly isn’t the primary time. Uneasiness plagued me day after day when my son began driving final fall. Concern consumed me when my dad went in for open-heart surgical procedure just a few months again. Overwhelm nearly utterly swallowed me 18 years in the past when the ultrasound tech mentioned, “I’m sorry we are able to’t discover your child’s heartbeat.” And nagging stress? I’m all labored up in it proper now for my mother as she wonders how she’ll look after my dad after one more life-altering stroke.
I do know you might be acquainted with related suffocating waves of anxiousness, too, aren’t you? Generally, the darkish waters flood your world with such a continuing that you just really feel you’ll by no means catch a break or a breath. You need desperately for God to intervene together with his divine aid earlier than you crack, crumble, and flat-out collapse. Pay attention, I understand how laborious it’s to pause for peace to fight the craze when the world retains bringing dangerous information and increasingly heavy burdens. Personally, I are inclined to relentlessly grasp for management and take cost as if it’s in my fingers to repair what’s incorrect and straighten out what doesn’t make sense. Or I’ll simply distract and numb out from the realities I face.
However it’s in these overloaded, weighed-down moments all of us should bear in mind to position our belief in God. He knew this was all going to occur. He did. He additionally is aware of what’s going to occur subsequent. And he is aware of, finally, all issues work for the nice of those that love him. That’s you and me. And all that we’re going by way of. No matter has you shaken or stirred up with stress and overwhelm, God is aware of. God sees. God cares. So you may take a deep breath proper now, baby of God. OK, I’ll too. Whisper the phrases, God, I belief you. Deeply inhale belief and exhale the stress. Once more, God, I belief you. Substitute each stress and fear with belief. God may be trusted with all of it.
Pay attention, if life didn’t hand us all of the heavy, laborious waves you’re being hit with, we wouldn’t want our good God. And near him is at all times proper the place he needs us. The perfect place to be. He needs you to belief in him. He needs you to lean on him. All over your anxious state of affairs and season. Your almighty Father additionally needs to alleviate your damage and the heaviness you’re feeling. He needs you to know he loves you, that he’s making a manner, and that he has every little thing that has you uneasy in his sovereign management. It’s possible you’ll not perceive. Many occasions we gained’t. However he does. And his manner is completely one of the simplest ways. You and I can belief our loving Almighty God. Proper the place he has you. Proper now. All the time.
Let’s pray:
Loving Lord, I really feel the overwhelm of uncertainty, uneasiness, and fear. All rooted within the enemy’s lies of helplessness. And I don’t need to be weighed down by this false concern. Lord, I do know that due to your excellent love and omnipotent management, I don’t want to fret about right now or concern something the long run would possibly maintain. However the world may be such a wrestle. Between the individuals I care about and my very own internal and surrounding battles, there’s at all times one thing competing for my care and concern. It simply turns into greater than I can deal with, and proper now, I want you. I want confidence in your truths. I do know you like me and every of your youngsters greater than I might presumably think about. And I do know that you’ve all issues in your {powerful} fingers. This implies I’ve nothing to fret about now and nothing to concern for all of my tomorrows. For this, I reward you. Give me unshakable confidence on this unfailing fact. Thanks to your love. Thanks to your energy, safety, and provision.
In your mighty identify, Amen.
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