A Prayer for When Worry Creeps In
By Alicia Searl
“When I’m afraid, I put my belief in you.” – Psalm 56:3
“I’m scared,” I whispered to my husband as we sat within the foyer of a psychologist’s workplace, awaiting our appointment. We have been about to bear our hearts and souls to a lady we had by no means met earlier than. Our hearts have been already heavy and completely uncooked, feeling as if that they had been rubbed by the roughest type of sandpaper. But there we sat, ready for our names to be known as, solely to overtly share the struggles and challenges we had been dealing with with our daughter over the past two years.
Was this the reply? Would this trigger a few of the dreaded concern we had been lugging round for thus lengthy to lastly subside? We had no thought what we have been in for. Every thing appeared bleak, and it felt as if we had been dwelling in a fog. My weary and closely burdened momma’s coronary heart wrestled with what the end result would possibly seem like, questioning if a prognosis would deliver reduction or extra ache. Would we be judged as ill-fit dad and mom as a result of we someway failed her? Would we obtain information we weren’t going to have the ability to deal with? My husband took my hand and glanced my strategy to share that he was scared, too.
Worry. Simply the sound of the phrase can ring a bell. That’s as a result of it’s such a robust drive. It might probably both drive us nearer to God or trigger us to float away as we clumsily search consolation and any supply of calm.
When concern is stoked inside us, our innate and pure response alerts our nervous system, signaling that one thing is incorrect and we should react. Typically, that response may very well be coping by reaching for that half-empty bottle or withdrawing from others. Typically it causes us to develop indignant or plan for the worst, which finally ends up often bringing out our worst. Different instances, we expertise the bodily results of concern with fast heartbeat and elevated respiration.
That is the place I discovered myself. I had succumbed to a spot the place I bodily was unable to struggle, and my physique was beginning to present it. I had chest ache, low vitality, and a number of other panic assaults that woke me in a chilly sweat many nights. Sadly, this in the end precipitated friction in our dwelling and made me utterly unable to struggle for our daughter.
Then, I used to be met with the verse present in Psalm 56:3. David, a person who virtually appeared proof against concern between preventing a large and remaining steadfast below fixed oppression and trials, overtly shares that he’s afraid. David, a person identified for his bravery and braveness, admits he’s fearful and may solely acquire peace by trusting God.
David fashions for us the way in which we should always reply to concern. And that, my buddy, is by trusting God to struggle the battle for us! Whereas I’m nonetheless studying this myself, and proceed to struggle an inside conflict on concern, I’m reminded that God will not be solely on this battle with me however preventing for me and my valuable daughter.
Oh, darling buddy, God is preventing for you too! In case you are being choked out by concern and turning to your personal gadgets, will you be a part of me in trusting God and letting Him care in your anxious coronary heart?
Let’s pray:
O God, we’re so grateful that You aren’t solely good and gracious to us, however You might be our fearless and daring defender. We can’t start to bathe You with sufficient reward for preventing our battles and restoring peace and calm to our weary souls and anxious hearts. In all honesty, it’s so arduous to recollect this reality. Thanks for the promise of Your presence. You promise to be with us even once we are confronted with sabotaging concern. Selfishly, we have a tendency to show to the issues that present speedy however fleeting reduction from the crippling grips of concern. So, we humbly come earlier than You and ask for Your grace and forgiveness the place we have now not trusted in You. Lord, it’s evident that we want Your energy, particularly in instances of intense concern.
We ask that You’d calm the waves in our fearful storms and grant us Your peace and luxury, together with the serenity of nonetheless waters solely You can provide. We all know that as we place our belief in You, our fears won’t solely subside however will provide us a secure refuge to cover as You struggle on our behalf. For that, we’re so grateful that we serve a loving and fearless God. We love you, Lord and pray that with You on our aspect, we are able to stay with braveness. In Jesus’ title. Amen.
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