Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Battles

Father, this morning I come praying for the women I know who are struggling. Who are weighted down. Who are in a battle internally with the demands on their lives. For women who get up in the morning knowing the battle is waiting.

I ask that you would fight for us. Father, I ask that you would help us with the riots that go on in our own spirits. The battles of perfectionism, of expectations, of fears and of worries.

Father, I ask this morning that you would settle us. I ask that you come in the midst of us and calm our overwrought seas. I ask that you would help us in the midst of the frenetic lives we live. Help us to allow you to slow everything down—and help us to see you.

Yesterday was Epiphany—the day of seeing and recognizing the manifestations of your Presence. Let that truth carry over to us today. I pray that you would help us to stop striving. To stop working so hard at being.

Father, let our Epiphany come! Let it come with the reality in its wake that you really do have our backs. You really do fight our battles. You told Joshua to not be afraid that you would fight for him. I pray today that we would know that you are saying the same to each of us. You will fight for us if only we will allow you.

Today, Father, I pray for the beautiful, strong women who have been told that they are unattractive and weak by others, themselves or the enemy. I ask for you to surround them and me with your Presence today. And the knowing of you having our backs would give us courage to face this day.


Amen and amen. 

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