I haven't posted anything in almost a year. Life has gotten...busy? Hard? Consuming? Scary? I feel like I need to post today. Not an update about what is going on in my life, but a prayer. So if you choose to leave the page now, no offense. If you choose to stay and read my prayer, please pray it with me, for me, or alter it to fit what you need covered in prayer today. If you have a specific prayer request, please leave me a comment or send me an email.
Lord God, I come to you with a frightened and anxious heart. Lord, you know my heart before I do. The thoughts in my head are not new to you. Father, I need your strength today, tomorrow, and the rest of the week. I need your strength everyday and will need it everyday here on out. Lord, I feel like I am drowning with school. My mind is swimming in a thousand different directions and it seems none of them are toward you. There is a dark force at work trying to bring me down. To turn from you. Father, I know that it is not of you. It is using those around me to cast doubt upon what I am supposed to be doing. Casting doubt on my ability to finish my schooling successfully. Father God, my friends and I can feel it trying to dampen our spirits. Trying plant seeds of doubt and destruction in our minds.
Lord, hear my plea and cover me with your righteousness and favor. Hedge me in and lead us through this darkness. I know that with you all things are possible, the devil knows that too. He knows that the flesh is weak and is trying to sever my bond with you. Lord, protect my friends and I from this snake and cast light onto the path we need to take. The path may be rough, we know that, but can handle what comes our way with you guiding us and shielding us with favor. In your heavenly name, Amen.
Psalm 5:12 ESV
For you bless the righteous, O Lord ; you cover him with favor as with a shield.
