Prayer #3

First of all, I just want to say that it's a good thing I already told some friends about this blog, because I already feel like I don't want to do this anymore. It's a good thing I know how I am :) Well here it goes...

Dear God,

I pray for this man to have understanding. I pray that his heart would be intimately acquainted with Your ways and who You are. I pray God that today something would shift and move in his heart and mind and there would be a fresh revelation of who You are and what You are doing in this season. Dad I pray that he wouldn't look to himself for answers- analyzing, questioning, and ultimately doubting himself. I ask that he would instead always look to You first- that in any given situation, his first response would be, "God would do you think?" Not in a way that can paralyze one from making choices, but in a way that would demonstrate the kind of relationship he has with You and where You are in his priorities.

Sometimes it's easy for people who are intelligent and analytical to let their minds be the compass from which they find daily direction. I hope and pray that his mind would be fully redeemed and that his intellect would never get in the way of knowing You better. Because You are an eternal God who is not to be completely grasped and held in our finite minds no matter how great.

I ask God that if he's experiencing difficulties in his singleness at this time, that You would bring understanding to his heart about this situation, and what if anything needs to be done. Dad, would You give him understanding about why he is where he is right now. Please unveil the truth about his circumstances-how his choices brought him here. I ask for Your grace and love to envelop the realizations that may be discouraging and gratitude and joy to envelop the victorious realizations.

Dad, bring peace to his heart and mind about those things which cannot be known or changed. Help him to focus on the things which can be known- despite the pain and hurt in this world we believe in a living God who's love, goodness, and power will prove true and overcome every injustice. Dad help him to know in his heart that you are good and your goodness will overcome and outshine every hurt and disappointment. I pray he would understand how to have an intimate relationship with You and those You've called him into relationship with.

Dad, there are things which we need to struggle to understand, things which we just simply need to accept to understand, and still things which the understanding comes in the knowing we don't understand. I pray he would understand the difference among those things and have the discernment to know which kind of thing he is facing in the moment.