Dear Father,

I come to you this morning in humility and just to thank you for every little thing you provide to me in this life. I woke up. I woke up in a warm bed. I had water to drink and coffee. I have food and shelter. I have a means to get to a job that provides for my needs financially. I have health. I have people who support and love me. Thank you, Father, for all the ways you provide for me that I often overlook and probably often don’t even deserve.

Thank you for the trials that you didn’t not leave me alone in but allowed me to experience so that I would come to you and so that I would be refined into the person you have called on me to me.

And now, I ask for your forgiveness for being in despair when I have all of these things. Because if you have provided for all those needs, then you will provide for the one that I have been in despair over and have not laid down and let you provide for me. I have been trying to understand things that are not for me to understand. This morning I was reminded that we often make idols of our pain, loneliness and longing and hold on to those things instead of allowing you to take them and provide for us in that way. I am reminded that is our gift to you, to trust and allow you to do that. I am reminded that true blessing comes from blessing others.

So, Father, Holy Spirit, lead me to just what you have for me today. Lead me to where I can be a blessing to others. Help me to overflow with your peace and light and allow you to take my sorrows and my needs while I do as you called me to do, to encourage others and love others and show them who I really am in you. And help me to not worry about tomorrow or when the answer to my prayers will come, because your timing is perfect, your ways are perfect and for all good, and your thoughts are greater than mine.

I love you and I thank you for all that you are and all that you do! In the name of Jesus Christ, my strength, I pray Amen! 🙏 ♥️

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭6‬:‭25‬-‭34‬ ‭NIV‬‬

“Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.”
‭‭Philippians‬ ‭4‬:‭8‬ ‭NIV‬‬