Week 3 | Day 2 | Help!

Command:

Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.” Matthew 26:39 (NIV)

Read:

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God. Romans 8:26-27 (NIV)

Reflect:

Twenty-five years ago, our family was everything I had always dreamed of. Our three children were happy and healthy. We owned a home in a wonderful neighborhood. I was a Children’s Church Director and my husband was a Worship Leader and Private School Administrator. We seemed to be at a wonderful point in our family’s life. 

It all came crashing down the day after Thanksgiving. My husband decided to leave our marriage for a man that he had been having an affair with. In the months that followed he lost his jobs and we lost our house. 

I was overwhelmed with pain both for me and for our children. I didn’t know what to pray because my mind was spinning. I wanted it all to go away. My only prayer was “Help!”

What I know now, is that the Spirit knew what I needed. He knew my heart and he knew my pain. I only needed to turn to the Lord, surrender it all and allow God to heal our family. Our brokenness was not created by God, but the Lord worked in amazing ways to heal us, redeem the situation and strengthen all of us.

Since then, when faced with difficult circumstances, I know that I can trust God’s way - the way of the kingdom. God is faithful and his way is good. He will lead me. I need only to surrender and take one step at a time in the right direction.

React:

Are you in a difficult season? Surrender and ask God to lead you where he wants you. That’s the way of the kingdom.

Pray:

Lord Jesus, I trust you with all things knowing that the Spirit knows my heart. Today I pray, “Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”