Talk to God about everything that concerns you, which is exactly what prayer is. He is saying, "Turn your worry into prayer. Take your worry list and put it on your prayer list."
We serve a God who spoke life and light into a dark and void situation and created this world. And He has given us the privilege to do the same—to speak into our situations, to begin to prophesy our future, to direct our life where it needs to go—so that we can obtain the blessings that He has for us.
Worry does nothing to change our concerns or troubles, but it does change one thing—it changes who we are. Worry causes us to miss the beauty of the moment and the opportunity to be fruitful in our lives.
It doesn't work to be worrying and praying. The two can't coexist. They're opposites. Don't allow anxieties to push you around. Take your worries and begin to offer them up to God. Bring Him into the middle of your challenges, and it becomes a prayer.
“Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me” (Psalm 23:4). Sometimes in life, you have to play in pain. In other words, you have to keep going even when you don’t feel like it.
Get to know the God of your ancestors. They’ve walked where we’re walking. They’ve faced opposition, giants, trouble, sickness, but they stand as a testimony of the goodness of God. They’re in heaven cheering you on.
God wouldn’t have given you the dream, and the promise wouldn’t have come alive, if He didn’t already have a plan to bring it to pass. It doesn’t matter how long it’s been or how impossible it looks.
When you face a situation that is painful, is your first thought, “God, why me? What did I do to deserve this?” That’s viewing the difficulties in our life as a reflection of the way God loves us, which couldn’t be further from the truth. God loves us unconditionally.
Even the smallest step can get you moving toward a better future. Do that thing that seems like just a little bit of a stretch. Face that task that intimidates you a little. That’s how you build your strength and confidence. That’s how you start believing in yourself again.
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In the Scripture, God said, “This valley will be filled with water by tomorrow morning and there will be neither wind nor rain.” God can bring an abundance in unusual ways. He can heal you without the medicine. He can bring the right person from an unlikely place. God’s ways are better than our ways. Trust His plan for your life.
If you’re basing God’s love on your actions or your results, that’s conditional. But God so loved us that He gave His only Son for us unconditionally. “God showed His great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners” (Romans 5:8). You can’t work for God’s love; you can only believe and receive it.
Thoughts will whisper, “It’s permanent. You’ll never get well. Never meet the right person. Never get the breaks to accomplish the dream.” But what we can’t see is it’s just a season. Just a little further, there are sunny skies, favor, good breaks, the right people, new opportunities.