Mornings arrive with an agenda. Nearly every day of my life contains entries into the schedule. Some entries I have chosen and others were chosen on my behalf. With that, some days can overwhelm my heart before my feet hit the floor.
I was on my bed in the dark, late night hours, attempting to go to sleep last night. Instead, my mind wandered around in next week. (I’m not discounting the fact that I may have been caffeinated from a glass of tea in the early afternoon. Still, I was WIDE AWAKE at 1:00 a.m.) As I pondered the upcoming days, I began to anticipate some calendared items eagerly, while others made me anxious.
You need to understand, I am not a worrier. In fact, I’m probably a little on the PollyAnna side; energized by people, and happily look forward to pending events, meetings, etc., but last night’s thoughts were different.
For whatever reason, as I was considering this coming week, my heart began to be overwhelmed by the content of my schedule. I knew I could not let my mind stay there and had to return to the present. So, I pulled out the Divine WMD.
You guessed it. I began to pray.
Prayer is a WMD!
This weapon of mass destruction has the DIVINE POWER to tear down strongholds, overpower faulty human reasoning, and destroy false arguments. That means prayer can demolish fortresses of the enemy!! Prayer cuts through the imaginations concocted from fear and abolishes the arguments that only make sense in the darkness of our minds.
I knew I had to take trepidatious thoughts captive, to the obedience of Christ. (2 Corinthians 10:3-5)
My mind moved to thoughts toward the Lord and His kindness and unfailing love. I began to thank Him for His mercy and grace. I praised Him for His power in my life and for all He is doing in me, through me, and for me. As soon as the words began to reach my lips, that sweet river of peace flowed over me and I began to float along the current that led me into rest.
In my time of prayer last night, and again this morning, I was overwhelmed by the greatness of Almighty GOD. That although HE is GREAT, HE cares for the minutiae of my life. HE instructs me, then strengthens me to follow through and carry out the tiniest of these details.
When I consider how marvelous HE truly is, my frustration about the temporal is completely removed and my heart is stirred to consider GOD and GOD only. Because of WHO HE IS, HE is WORTHY of ALL our worship and praise.
Consider these words from Job about God: “He stretches out the northern skies over empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing.” (26:7, HCSB)
JEHOVAH GOD does not require support nor affirmation. HE is all the support we need.
