I’ve been feeling lately a lot of spiritual warfare in and around me. My body has been beaten down with stresses of everyday life, my mind has been stripped down by harsh words from those I thought were to help and my heart is just filled with unsurity. The only thing I can think to do right now is pray myself through what’s been going on in my life.

I’m clearing my mind and thinking of God in Heaven… He’s sitting on his throne, angels are screaming his glory. He’s my creator. Thank you God for family who have loved me so much to give me such fond memories, for friends who continue to offer kind words and comfort me with an outpouring of support… thank you God for a place I can walk into each morning and serve with a purpose… thank you God for purpose. God I know I’ve been handling life as if I’m in control, as if I can actually control my surroundings… and my head is spinning with the overwhelming need in this world. I know that is ultimately why you are in control. God, take this burden from my shoulders and help to embrace your goodness and protection. God, help me to believe in your strength to handle every one of my problems.

I lift up to you my friends who have been struggling with heartaches, my family who have been battling the unknown… Lord, I just ask for you to pull us closer to you… to recognize that the only answer we have in this world is to fall more in love with you. God, I lift up the church and ask for your blanket of protection and your love to fill santuaries hurting today. My heart is breaking at the thought of  friends who have fallen away from you, for family who has slipped through the cracks. God I just ask for your peace to comfort their souls and that they recognize that only your everlasting love can really fill the heart and give them all it needs and yearns for. God, I ask for you Holy Spirit to fill me, that it will fill me so full that my life shines only of you and becomes evident to those around that it’s you they are seeing… not me. I want people to visibly see the change in my life because of you, I want to see the change in my life, more and more. Father, I ask your power to fall upon me. I don’t want to just hear your words and do nothing about it and deceive myself. Blessed are those who hear the word of God and obey it. Help me to believe that. That I really will be blessed when I hear your word and do something about it. Please don’t let me just hear your words without it just totally changing my life. Change me and make me more like you, bless me… it’s in your almighty name, I pray all these things, Amen.