A Prayer to Ease Fear – Your Every day Prayer

A Prayer to Ease Fear
 By Alicia Searl

“Peace I depart with you; my peace I offer you. I don’t give to you because the world provides. Don’t let your hearts be anxious and don’t be afraid.” – John 14:27

Worrying and fretting about “stuff” is a continuing inside battle for me. I’ll simply go down a “rabbit gap,” solely to be flooded with anxiousness inside minutes. Whereas I do know this about myself, I nonetheless are inclined to do it. I crave to grasp and make sense of the data at hand. Nevertheless, that being stated, anxiousness will creep in on the oddest of occasions, catching me off guard.

The opposite day whereas on the grocery retailer, fear got here on fairly sturdy, as in a full-blown panic mode, proper in the course of the produce aisle. I remembered the meals weblog I had been following and their recommendation (or fairly warning) in opposition to varied dies and chemical compounds which can be being injected into our meals, and – I froze. Nervousness started to choke out any readability because the grocery retailer start to spin, and all these dreadful ideas started to plague my thoughts. Happily, I managed to make it shortly out of the shop in an effort to catch my breath. However I nonetheless grew worrisome about how I used to be going to supply wholesome meals to my household on a finances no much less!

Truthfully, it is simple to fret nowadays, particularly with the information at our fingertips and a gradual fixed stream of knowledge at our disposal. Whereas there are fantastic advantages to being on-line, like having the luxurious of ordering one thing simply to have it delivered inside hours (or minutes typically), or the power to trace our youngsters, or join with others, there are additionally many hidden risks. Risks that may lead our hearts and minds astray, all whereas encouraging our fear and worry to manifest.

Buddy, if fear is gripping your coronary heart, and it’s main you down a darkish path, might I remind you that we aren’t meant to hold the burden of this world. Our minds, hearts, and bodily our bodies will actually collapse underneath such weight. That’s as a result of we had been by no means meant to face up to the fixed data we’re submerged in every day (Ecclesiastes 1:18). Whereas we’re to hunt knowledge, we should management what we ingest by guarding our hearts and minds.

The reality of the matter is that our hearts shall be troubled on this life. We’ll encounter trials of all kinds; we will be sure of that (1 Peter 4:12-14). However, we’ve hope as believers that tucked inside our fear is a pathway to peace. We’re referred to as to face agency in that Fact!

Let’s pray:

Heavenly Father,
You’re a God of peace. We’re so grateful that You give us the power to come back to You with our troubles, worries, and issues, and You lovingly grant us a peace that goes past our personal understanding.

Whereas we all know we’ll come into locations that convey on worry and fear, we ask that You stick with us and draw us shut. Remind us that You will note us by way of. Be our security web in occasions that convey on confusion and lead our hearts again to the guarantees discovered all through Your Phrase. We invite You to assist us see areas in our lives by which we have to create safeguards for our hearts and minds. Information and urge us to give attention to what’s pure, healthful, and righteous.

Lord, please give us a relaxed spirit as properly once we obtain troublesome information. Assist us discover resourceful methods to heal our anxious hearts. Give us the need to hunt Your knowledge in these occasions and pour Your unfailing love upon us.  When our hearts need to get lost the pathway to worry and fear needs to devour us, give us the braveness to hunt You and provides us discernment. Assist us belief You alone and keep in mind that You will have a particular plan and objective for our lives. We all know we had been created for such a time as this and need to glorify You! So, we ask that You be with us throughout these fairly unusual occasions and plant a way of peace that can carry us by way of.

We ask this in Jesus’ title. Amen.

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