Starve Your Doubt
Devotional Reading: Philippians 4:6 GNT
Don’t worry about anything, but in all your prayers ask God for what you need, always asking him with a thankful heart.
God cannot work in an atmosphere of worry or doubt. Worry can do nothing except kill you before your time. The issue that looks so big to you now is a tiny matter to God. Imagine someone has a prognosis of an incurable disease. Worrying is not going to remove it except contributing to killing the person even quicker.
When medical science has come to its wits end and the disease can’t be removed, such a person should find something that can remove it, which is the word of God, and that is where God comes in. Many people go into the place of prayer worrying rather than believing, and prayer will not work that way.
God does not want His children to come into His presence with worry because that will hinder Him from working on their case. When you find yourself in a situation where there’s nothing else you can do, that is when you should go to sleep.
Even when you feel no one knows what you are going through, there is a God that knows, and He can send someone to help you. But God won’t help you when you are worried because worrying means you are telling God, “I am still working on it.” And God would likely reply, “When you are through, let Me know because two of us can’t work on a case at the same time.” You will only struggle when you take the case from His hand. Hand it over to Him now!
Prayer and Confession
Father, I receive grace to put my absolute trust in You alone. Amen!
Further Reading: Psalm 46:10, 1Peter 5:7, Psalm 55:22
