A Prayer for When You are Overwhelmed and Pressured – Your Everyday Prayer – August 24

A Prayer for When You’re Overwhelmed and Stressed
By Emily Rose Massey

“Cast all your panic on him for the reason that he cares for you” (1 Peter 5:7, NIV).

I struggled with anxiousness and worry attacks for numerous a long time in significant school and higher education. Worry and stress were just a part of my life, and I authorized them to transfer into my intellect and turn into my long lasting mental roommates. From revenue difficulties to connection challenges, if it became way too a lot, you would discover me curled up in a ball in the fetal place on the floor, hyperventilating until parts of my body went numb and crying till there had been no much more tears still left.

Following I graduated faculty, the Lord regenerated and redeemed me, and I started to wander close with the Him and review His Term like I in no way experienced just before in my life. My thoughts was becoming renewed and about time, I started to trust the Lord additional with challenges that would have usually brought on me to fret. I little by little figured out to forged my cares upon Him like 1 Peter 5:7 tells us to do:

“Cast all your panic on him since he cares for you” (1 Peter 5:7, NIV).

But every single now and then, I nonetheless develop into a victim of be concerned and anxiety and get started to encounter sudden panic about my conditions that out of my management, even however I know the Bible is apparent that we should often rely on the Lord at all periods. So if we are not intended to be anxious as believers, why do so quite a few Christians however wrestle with anxiety? Aside from chemical imbalances that can happen in one’s entire body, which are really real and incredibly legitimate, I feel substantially of what results in anxiety starts in our minds. The more we dwell on a destructive or fearful considered of a circumstance past our control, the far more strain and stress commences to plague us. Someplace alongside the lines in our overwhelm, we ignore the One particular who holds our long run. The One who is sovereign. The A single who cares for His kids so deeply, the Lord God Almighty. We find out additional about Him in the Bible, where our religion and abiding have faith in in Him is strengthened.

The other night time when I expert the panic assault, there was a quick minute exactly where I was given the option to resist the unfavorable thoughts and get them captive and start to discuss to God like I had realized to do so lots of occasions right before, but this time, I selected to let my head run in circles. I was so acquainted with the expertise of a panic attack that I could literally really feel it attempt to overtake me proper just before it transpired. If I would have set my brain on scripture in that minute (such as Philippians 4:6-7 and even 1 Peter 5:7), I would have recognized that God provided me a option for my anxious feelings. A uncomplicated dialogue with the Lord would have served me concentrate my views and would have brought fast peace to the whirlwind in my thoughts. The Word of God is so powerful and the more we examine and meditate on it, our basis will be robust in Christ, and we will continuously know how to seem to Him any time pressure and stress and anxiety attempts to overtake us. Allow us usually be quick to question the Lord for His sustaining grace and help in our time of require, wanting to Him normally for the reason that He cares for us. 

Let us Pray:

Father God, thank You that You want us to forged our cares upon You. Thank You that there is nowhere I can go that you are not there with me. Thank You for having a keep of my existence, even as I feel like every thing is crumbling all-around me. Lord, I confess that I have let stress consider a maintain of my lifetime, fairly than You. I have let strain command my temper, my perspective, my feelings, and my actions. Lord, I repent of this! Be sure to Father, enable me see what is stress filled in my everyday living and hand it in excess of to You. Assistance me not enable the stress win out. Aid me actively feel on Your goodness to me. Assist me to renew my thoughts with Your unchanging Phrase. I am so hopeful for my eternity with you, Lord, where there will be no a lot more tension and I will be overwhelmed by Your really like, beauty, and in no way-ending peace! Assistance me appear back on all the strategies You have rescued me from my stressful moments and seem in hope to the long term exactly where You will one working day rid all tension, without end. In the meantime, I know and believe in that You keep my long run. Enable me reside boldly in the truth of the matter of Your goodness and electricity now. Thank You, Lord. In Jesus’ Title, amen.

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