DON'T UNDERSTAND GOD?

Are you baffled by what the Lord might be doing in your life and in the lives of those around you? Sometimes we simply cannot get the right perspective. We want to see the "Big Picture" but we just can't seem to figure it all out. Perhaps this is one of those times for you. Be encouraged! You did not make the world and you do not keep it together. That is the job of Someone far more powerful and knowledgeable than you. You always knew that God existed. Now perhaps this is the time to listen to Him and gain His perspective. Why not begin with this short prayer and then read and listen to Him speak to you about your circumstances.

Prayer: Lord God, I would like to pray your words back to You in the form of my prayers. And I would like to ask You to hear them please and honor them. O God, please help me to understand that Your thoughts are higher than my thoughts. Help me to accept the fact that I may not always understand Your thoughts and Your ways. Please Lord, remind me of Your promise that if I will call upon You, You will tell me great and unsearchable things that I do not know. I would like to pray Your Words back to You now in Jesus' name. Amen.

God, in accordance with Your Word ...

I pray that You, God, will help me to understand that Your thoughts are not my thoughts nor are my ways Your ways. That I will understand that as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are Your ways higher than my ways, and Your thoughts higher than my thoughts.

ISAIAH 55:8-9

I pray that I will call to You, God. and You will answer me and show me great and mighty things, which I do not know.

JEREMIAH 33:3

I pray that if You, God, are for me, who can be against me?

ROMANS 8:31

I pray that in all these things I am more than a conqueror through Him who loved me.

ROMANS 8:37

I pray that as for You, God, Your way is perfect. The word of the LORD is proven; because I trust in You, You are a shield to me.

PSALM 18:30

I pray that I will pursue the knowledge of the LORD.

HOSEA 6:3

I pray, God, that You will perfect that which concerns me and that Your mercy, O LORD, endures forever.

PSALM 138:8

I pray that You, God, will make an everlasting covenant with me, that You will not turn away from doing me good; but that You will put Your fear in my heart so that I will not depart from You.

JEREMIAH 32:40

I pray that I will hold fast the confession of my hope without wavering, for You, God, are faithful.

HEBREWS 10:23

I pray that all things work together for good to me because I love You, God, because I was called according to Your purpose.

I pray that no temptation has overtaken me except such as is common to man; but You, God, are faithful, who will not allow me to be tempted beyond what I am able. but with the temptation You will also make the way of escape, that I may be able to bear it.

I CORINTHIANS 10:13

I pray that while many are my afflictions, You, LORD, will deliver me out of them all.

PSALM 34:19

I pray that I will cast my burden on You, LORD, and You shall sustain me.

PSALM 55:22

I pray that I will fear not, for You, God, are with me. That I will not be dismayed, for You are my God. That You will strengthen me and help me. That You will uphold me with Your righteous right hand.

ISAIAH 41:10

I pray that I do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try me, as though some strange thing happened to me. But that I will rejoice to the extent that I partake of Christ's sufferings, that when His glory is revealed, I may also be glad with exceeding joy.

I PETER 4.12-13

(Adapted from Praying God's Will For My Life - Lee Roberts)