O God of Wisdom, I am grateful that I can count on You to instruct me and teach me the way I am to live. It is Your hands and eyes that guide me on how to run my race. If I lack wisdom on how to deal with issues and problems, I can ask You for the solutions that I need and be confident that You will give them to me. When I get confused, help me realize that You are not the author of confusion because it emanates from my enemy’s deceptions and the false teachings promoted by the world. When I feel like fleeing from terror, I realize it is not You who has given me a spirit of fear. What I need to do is turn to You for the strength I need to resist it. Often my confusion stems from misinformation and misguided goals. But when I humble myself and willingly take up my role as a servant, I find the peace and contentment that allows me to be molded into Your image.
When I feel confusion, torment and anxiety invading my life, I need to reach out to You and seek Your guidance. For the wisdom that emanates from You is pure, peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruit, is impartial without hypocrisy. What stabilizes my life is the knowledge that You are faithful in standing with me in good times and bad. I will not consider it strange when trials and tribulations crowd into my life because the trying of my faith produces patience and perseverance. When I think about my suffering, I also reflect on Yours and immediately find myself content in whatever state I find myself … because nothing I have to endure compares to Your suffering. If I can learn to trust You fully and not lean on my own understanding and acknowledge You in all of my ways, I will find the confidence to trust that You will guide me in all of my ways.
As I keep my focus on You and the Scriptures, I know that I will live in peace, walk the road of righteousness and not stumble along my way. Help me experience the sheer joy of casting my burdens on You and seeing You sustain my life. When I pass through storms, floods or fires, help me not lose sight of Your love and desire to help me. You alone infuse me with power when I am weak … hope when I have none … perseverance when I want to give up … and grace I do not deserve. I will strive to remain attentive to Your soft, sweet voice telling me “this is the way you need to go.” When I do not know which way to turn, I need You to take control and show me my way forward. I need Your help in rejecting anxiety and confusion so I can stay on the path You intended for me. And it’s in Jesus’ name I pray. AMEN!!
I Corinthians 14:33 For God is not the author of confusion but peace …