A Prayer to Undergo God’s Will – Your Every day Prayer

A Prayer to Undergo God’s Will 
By Ashley Moore

“Your palms have made and normal me; give me understanding that I could be taught your commandments.” – Psalm 119:73, ESV 

Ping! 
“Hey, somebody informed me I ought to attain out to you. My boyfriend is hooked on medication. He’s overdosed twice this yr. I can’t eat or sleep. I’m anxious sick. Have you learnt the place we are able to get some assist for him? “

This was considered one of many messages I’ve acquired through the years from individuals who love somebody who struggles with dependancy. They usually discover me after listening to me share my private testimony of residing with a struggling addict. My coronary heart goes out to those individuals as a result of, sadly, there are tons of assets accessible for his or her addicted family members. However there are just a few locations that assist the household and buddies discover help–even fewer that deliver Christ into the dialog. 

And boy, will we ever want God’s energy and the assistance of others! Loving somebody who struggles with dependancy is a curler coaster journey.  Now we have to take care of dishonesty, betrayal, nervousness, and extra. Often, the individuals who love them are a number of the most loving and supportive individuals. Nonetheless, they’re usually taken benefit of by their struggling family members, particularly if they’re in lively dependancy. 

Oftentimes, well-intentioned assist turns into dangerous when coping with dependancy. Typically it appears like giving somebody cash when it might have been higher to place a troublesome boundary in place. Or permitting the struggling cherished one to participate find assets and help for themselves slightly than attempting to do every part for them. Maybe it means taking good care of the issues we are able to management, like our ideas, reactions, and actions, slightly than attempting to manage these of our erratic family members. 

If you happen to relate to this wrestle, these items are sometimes simpler stated than accomplished. And typically, once I share these hard-to-swallow truths with individuals who attain out, they aren’t prepared to listen to them. However I can’t give anybody false hope as a result of I’ve discovered, principally the arduous manner, that what we’d like most when coping with an addicted cherished one is to undergo God’s will. Because the Psalmist says, we have to acknowledge that He normal us and our family members and that we’d like His understanding to navigate this properly and in a God-honoring manner. 

Fortunately, after we attain out to God for assist, He at all times offers us the reality in love. He guarantees to offer us knowledge generously if we ask Him for it, and He by no means turns into annoyed that we’re anxious and don’t know what to do (James 1:5). He by no means tires of us needing His assist. Today, possibly you might be questioning if somebody may help you together with your struggling cherished one too. There’s One who made you and offers you understanding. Will you undergo His will? 

Let’s pray:

Lord, 
I thanks that you simply normal us along with consideration and care. day by day of our lives. the struggles we’d face and the methods we’d be determined to your knowledge and understanding. And you already know the methods our family members are struggling too. Lord, I pray that you’d forgive us after we attempt to assist them in our personal power and lean on our personal restricted understanding. 

Lord, I pray proper now that you’d assist us to see the methods you wish to change us via this hardship. Change our reactions, Lord. Change our unbelief. Change our hearts. Shield us from bitterness, Lord. Assist us bear in mind who the true enemy is, Lord. But in addition assist us to acknowledge that you’re the Lord of Hosts. You’ve angel armies at your disposal, and also you lengthy for us to ask for Your energy in our conditions with our family members. You are also our Good Shepherd, who protects us and shields us from bother when issues get messy and chaotic as they usually do on this life, Lord. I pray we’d belief You want little kids as a result of You might be our Heavenly Father. We are able to undergo Your will and reward You thru this storm as a result of Your steadfast Love endures ceaselessly!
Thanks, Jesus, amen. 

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