With all the life decisions and potential pitfalls that this new job is bringing into our lives, I’ve changed my prayer strategy. Tell me what you think:
Instead of asking God to help us in this matter or that matter, with full humility, I thank God in advance for solving our hurt, pain, struggle, burden, thorn, issue, or whatever we are dealing with. Why not? God can do anything, and He will act, and He will carry us through the day. He promises that. Even Job ended up better than when his struggles began.
In the book of Daniel, God, by way of King Nebuchadnezzar, places an impossible task on Daniel. He has to tell the King what he dreamed, and interpret the dream, or be killed. Impossible for any human to do, but possible with God. Daniel prays, and in a dream, the King’s dream is revealed to him, and the interpretation of it. Daniel gets up in the morning and thanks God for the revelation, for it will save his life, the lives of others, and prove that his God is the God of Heaven. Then he goes and interprets the dream to the King . . .
Did you catch that? He thanked God for solving his huge dilemma BEFORE he went in to see the king! It’s one thing to “think” you’ve heard from God, go tell the king your thoughts, have those thoughts be correct, and then let out a sigh of relief and say “thank you, God.” Daniel had the faith to say thank you before he even knew he was right.
I think God wants us to stretch and grow all the time. When things look dire, impossible, or worse, that is the time to trust Him, and say thanks for getting us out of this tight spot.
“God, thank you for the way you will provide for us in our time of financial need. Thank you for the way you will give us courage in the times that Laura and I will be 12,000 miles apart for many weeks. Thank you God, for the answers you will provide us on the questions I have on how I am going to make this commute to work happen. Thank you for solving our family issues we are having. Thank you for showing us the way to proceed in job questions. I love you Jesus and thank you so much for choosing to love me when I hated you. Thank you for our salvation and the way you meet our needs every day, as your mercies are certainly new every morning. In Jesus’ name.”
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