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Thursday... Patience and being anxious can go together.


Psalm 141:1 (NLT), "O Lord, I am calling to you. Please hurry! Listen when I cry to you for help."

Thursday... Patience and being anxious can go together.

David, the writer of this Psalm must have been in a tight spot. He needed God right now. God knows us and is patient with our anxiety. He knows all about us because He created us. 

Here is what David said in Psalm 141:1 (NLT), "O Lord, I am calling to you. Please hurry! Listen when I cry to you for help." Yes, God knows what we are going through and He knows us and He is patient with our impatience. I love that.


But then somehow David stopped and had another thought. He prayed in verse 3, "Take control of what I say, O Lord, and guard my lips." Even in our prayers this is also a very good prayer. 

Yes, we can go on and on in our desperation and God loves us and He is patient with us but He sees whatever we are going through in a different light. And sometimes we need to stop and see what we are crying for and see that maybe God has a different perspective on what is happening to us. And maybe He has a purpose behind it and we need to pray, "Take control of what I say, O Lord, and guard my lips." Yes, in our anxious moments we need patience and trust and faith and confidence.

Yes, "O Lord, I am calling to you. Please hurry! Listen when I cry to you for help." Yes, He knows us and knows what we are going through and yes, maybe He is striving to get our attention and He does respond in His way to this type of prayer, but He also responses to our praying, "Take control of what I say, O Lord, and guard my lips." Yes, in our anxious moments we need to step back and ask Him to take control. Yes, our anxiety can turn into patience and trust and confidence.

Yes, God also rewards our persistence in our prayers. We can be persistent with faith, with trust, with confidence. But we must also accept the fact that God knows what He is doing and He knows what is best for us and He also knows that here on earth His will is not always done as it is in Heaven. So we need to also pray, "Take control of what I say, O Lord, and guard my lips." If we don't get what we want we can change our attitude and that isn't always good.

Yes, patience and being anxious can go together. And somewhere in our prayer we need to pray what Jesus prayed, "Not my will but Your will be done." Yes, God knows what He is doing. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning 

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